(1) The fees required for use of certain meeting rooms; reservation fee for ramadas, reserved park areas, special interest areas, sport fields, volleyball courts, skating rinks, bandshells, outdoor performance centers, rodeo grounds, park special events, and fees for special maintenance shall be as established in the fee schedules as approved by the mayor and council and maintained by the director.
(2) For meeting rooms, the director is authorized to negotiate meeting room rental rates for commercial organizations based on market comparisons.
(3) For special events, the director is authorized to negotiate special event rates for events at any parks and recreation facility. Special event rates shall be based on nature of the event, costs incurred in supporting the event, lost revenues resulting from the event, and market comparisons. The parks and recreation director is authorized to establish maintenance, damage, and event refundable deposits based on the nature of the event.
(4) For the rodeo grounds, the director is authorized to negotiate food and beverage concession charges in connection with the use of the rodeo grounds, which will be one (1) percent to five (5) percent of the net proceeds from an event after taxes. The director is authorized to establish maintenance, damage, and special event refundable deposits in connection with the use of the rodeo grounds based on the nature of the event, as well as ticket surcharges. All revenue generated by the rodeo grounds will be deposited into a rodeo grounds revenue account to be utilized for rodeo grounds operations and improvements.
(5) For outdoor performance areas, the director is authorized to negotiate and require fees and deposits for events; and to negotiate food and beverage concession charges based on market comparisons; and to negotiate ticket surcharges (for example, $1 per ticket sold) based on size, length of event, and market comparisons.
(6) The users of any park facility referred to in this chapter may request special maintenance of any athletic facility referred to in this chapter. The request shall be in writing at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the requested special maintenance. In writing, the department shall advise the party requesting special maintenance at the time the request is made, the cost of providing the special maintenance. The costs shall be an estimate of the actual cost to the city of providing a service and shall be paid for in advance.
(Ord. No. 4466, § 2, 4-12-76; Ord. No. 4657, § 4, 5-23-77; Ord. No. 5172, § 1, 6-23-80; Ord. No. 5213, § 6, 7, 8-4-80; Ord. No. 5373, §§ 3, 4, 5, 5-18-81; Ord. No. 5678, § 4, 11-8-82; Ord. No. 7104, § 7, 12-12-88; Ord. No. 7390, § 1, 4-2-90; Ord. No. 8578, § 1, 10-2-95; Ord. No. 9261, § 10, 8-2-99; Ord. No. 9757, § 17, 8-5-02; Ord. No. 9850, §§ 13, 14, 15, 16, 5-12-03; Ord. No. 10260, §§ 10, 11, 12, 13, 3-7-06; Ord. No. 10594, § 5, 10-7-08; Ord. No. 10748, § 1, 1-5-10; Ord. No. 11000, § 5, 6-26-12, eff. 7-1-12; Ord. No. 12114, § 15, 8-7-24)