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Board weighs raising athletic guest fee from $5 to $6; students continue to enter free with ID

Fountain Hills Unified School District Governing Board · August 6, 2026
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Summary

The board discussed a proposal to raise athletic guest fees from $5 to $6 to align with neighboring districts; the athletic director said students enter free with ID, adults would pay and online payments incur a roughly $1 processing fee.

The district’s athletic director (speaker 12) explained a proposal to raise guest fees at athletic events from $5 to $6 to bring the district closer to neighboring districts’ prices and to help cover program costs. The director said students enter free with an ID, adult visitors would pay the increased fee, payments are handled online (Dolphin) and season passes remain available to reduce per‑game cost for frequent attendees.

"They've been $5 for a really long time. And we just we started looking around to other districts, just to raise it a dollar, help out, you know, pay for things that we need," the athletic director said. A board member asked how much the online processor keeps; the director said about $1 per transaction.