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Revenue collected through athletic field permit fees and recent changes
1:10:42
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Council Member Krishnan inquires about the revenue collected through permit fees and recent changes in the fee structure. The Parks Department representative provides details on current revenue and explains the reasons for recent increases.
- For fiscal year 2025 to date, $3.7 million has been collected in permit fees
- This represents an increase from $2.4 million in fiscal year 2024
- The increase is largely due to recent rule changes that restructured and increased fees
- Changes include charging based on field type rather than sport type, separate charges for field lighting, increased fees for adult leagues, and new charges for for-profit youth leagues
- Prior to these changes, permit fees had not been increased since 2012
Shekar Krishnan
1:10:42
Got it.
1:10:43
Okay.
1:10:44
And then going to the revenue, how much revenue was collected through permit fees for the most recent fiscal year?
Margaret Nelson
1:10:52
So for fiscal year twenty five to date, we've brought in $3,700,000.
Shekar Krishnan
1:10:59
3 point 7 million.
1:11:00
And is that what's the trend been over the last few years?
1:11:02
Has that only increased or
Margaret Nelson
1:11:04
So in '20 the full FY 2024 was 2,400,000.0, so it's definitely an increase and that's largely due to the fact that as part of our rule change we did increase fees and restructure fees.
Shekar Krishnan
1:11:16
I see.
1:11:17
So it was about a $1,300,000 increase from last year to this year or over the last two years basically.
Margaret Nelson
1:11:22
Yeah.
1:11:23
We hadn't increased the permit fees since I think 2012.
1:11:29
So this was both restructuring where before we were, charging based on the type of sport and not the type of field.
Shekar Krishnan
1:11:37
Right.
Margaret Nelson
1:11:37
And we were also building in, field lighting into those, court those, fields that had lighting.
1:11:44
So we lighting is now a separate charge, and we're charging separately for the type of field and not the type of sport.
1:11:50
And and we also increased the the fee permit fees for adult leagues and instituted for the first time a a smaller charge for for profit youth leads.
Shekar Krishnan
1:12:01
Right.