Council Minutes - Town of Cambridge

COUNCIL MINUTESTUESDAY 26 JUNE 2012CR12.782012/2013 REVIEW OF FEES AND CHARGES - SPORTSGROUNDS ANDRESERVESPURPOSE OF REPORT:To review the current fee structure for Sports Grounds and Reserves.BACKGROUND:Each financial year, Council must establish the fees and charges to be levied at its sportsgrounds and reserves. The most appropriate time to set these fees is prior to adopting theannual budget so that the new fees can be reflected in the revenue items.DETAILS:Over a number of years, fee increases for Sportsgrounds and Reserves have been made inline with CPI (Perth) movements. The CPI movements for the period March 2011 to March2012 is 1.9%, however, the Town's cost of providing the facilities has risen beyond CPI due tosalaries, utilities, water use and fertilisers. It is therefore recommended to increase thesportsgrounds fees and charges by 4%.Specific changes are recommended for the following categories:• Weddings• Commercial Group Fitness Licences• Driver Training• Charges for Reserves - Seasonal Hire; and• Beach Volleyball.1. WeddingsCurrently, there are no time limits associated with wedding ceremony bookings. It isrecommended a time limit be applied to wedding ceremony bookings to ensure thatwedding ceremonies do not detract from the beachside, park or reserve environment or therecreational pursuits of those attending the beach, park or reserve. It is proposed that thewedding ceremony booking fee of $125 be capped to allow a maximum of one hour for setup, one hour for the actual wedding ceremony and one hour for pack down allowing a totalof three hours use for the booking fee.2. Commercial Group Fitness LicenceAfter examining other Local Government Authorities (LGA’s) commercial fitness groupcharges (Table 1), it was clear that there is a variance in the structure of fees charged byeach LGA.H:\CEO\GOV\COUNCIL MINUTES\12 MINUTES\JUNE 2012\C CR.DOCX 92