(A) The Park and Recreation Board is directed to establish all fees for individual participants, fees for specialized activities, and fees for materials or functions supplied by the Board. The fees shall be established by the Board first estimating the total funds that will be received during each calendar year from the park and recreation levy; the city income tax; and the amount appropriated from the general fund of the city not including any funds generated by park and recreational activities, charges and revenues. These estimated amounts of revenue shall be determined by the revenue amounts actually received during the last preceding calendar year. The Board shall then determine any necessary costs of the park and recreation program over and above the funds which costs shall be charged to the individual participants, teams sponsoring such activities, and the like. Such costs shall be apportioned as a fee schedule which shall be established to prorate such costs among the number of participants, number of teams involved, cost of officials, cost of equipment, prizes and trophies, if any, overhead and administrative costs, costs of supervision, and similar costs.
(B) The City Council shall establish all wages for seasonal, part-time or recreational personnel by proper ordinance, but the Park and Recreation Board shall have the right to recommend such wages to Council for its consideration.
(C) The Park and Recreation Board, after due consideration, shall submit such fees to the Clerk of Council on or before March 1 and October 1 of each calendar year.
(D) Such fees are hereby ratified and confirmed by Council as the fees to be charged for all such activities. But the Council reserves the right to modify such fees if after due investigation and deliberation the Council determines that there has been an improper allocation of the expenses of the Park and Recreation Board in any manner whatsoever. The Director is permitted to establish fees for programs that arise between the periods in § 97.14(C) above, provided that these fees are in keeping with the costs for other programs as established by the Park Board. Such new programs fees shall be submitted to the Park Board and Council for the next fee approval period.
(1980 Code, § 97.14) (Ord. 3921, passed 12-3-1979; Am. Ord. 7579, passed 8-7-2006)