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August 7, 2008
Millstone BOE seeks to recoup costs for school-facilities use
Community sports old school rap teams feared to be at risk if fees skyrocket
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer
PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Above: Tyler Patterson, 10, performs an exercise on July 29 during Millstone Township Community Education's fencing class in the Millstone Township Middle School gymnasium. Right: Theo Vlahos, 10, tries to catch a glove at fencing class.
Higher usage fees at Millstone Township school facilities may phoenix union high school district mean the end of some sports.
That was the warning given to the Board of Education at its July 28 meeting by members of the township Recreation Committee and those involved with other sports leagues.
Jim Healey, president of the Millstone Warriors youth girls school advantage basketball team, said he wyoming public school mi feels his 120-member organization, one springfield district school calander of 25 teams in a Monmouth County league, is rockwall school a "secondclass citizen" struggling for gym space at the schools. high school marching band themes Any surcharge for space would have to be passed on to longview school district parents, hawaii school reports he said.
"I don't feel the prioritization of gyms is impartial. In my opinion, gyms should be for basketball," he said. Healey added that he has seen kids playing with soccer cleats on the middle school's brand-new gym floor.
Gary Dorfman, a member of the Recreation Committeee, said both community-oriented and competition-oriented programs are run by the township. parkland high school cell phone He said facility use should clovis east high school not be allocated for the better athletes at the expense of the community athletes.
"It should not reach the point where we allocate out johnny cdo high school inequitably to west bend school district the urban school of san francisco citizens of the community," he said.
Board of texas high school baseball Education President Tom Foley said the school facilities are owned by the community but managed by the board, and the board should be in charge of allocation of its space. Foley said that the board's charter is fitness training school responsibility for education. While the board wants to support recreation, there is a cost, including energy and maintenance, he said.
"We are very tight on spending," he said, noting that the personal fitness training school community has voted down the school budget for the past three years.
Even the school's own ola high school athletic programs are now on a pay-to-play basis, as are all other after-school programs, he said. The Recreation Committee's annual high school soccer scheadules payment of $4,500 to the board does not come close to covering costs, Foley said.
Township Committeeman Michael Kuczinski said that before the referendum in 2004, the new middle school was promoted as providing more opportunities for facility use and as a benefit to community high school yearbooks residents.
"If you are going to charge, people need to see a detailed analysis of why this is happening," he said.
"Things change," Foley said. year-round school "We have a financial problem,"
The board president said that $750,000 has been cut from the budget over the past three years, frisco independent school district and the board had to pay $1.2 million for athletic jackson elementary school fields that were supposed albany law school to be paid for by the Pennsylvaniabased Orleans Development Corp. in exchange for free fill, but the developer reneged on the offer.
The board miami senior high school discussed charges for different classes of users, but was unable to come japanese school girl to an agreement on some of them. Board member Laura Dreifus, a Girl Scout leader, said it may be impossible for troops to use deer lakes school district school classrooms school nursing individual care plans if suggested fees are enacted.
Board member Sergio Galindo said he would scholarships for high school seniors like the "pain" evenly distributed.
"Recouping costs is the primary focus," he said.
Galindo said that lee county school district two years ago, the district took money out of its reserve fund.
"We have no money left. If something catastrophic happens at a school, we have no money to fix it," he said.
The school has a state-mandated cap and cannot spend more than that, he said.
Dorfman said that the township's recreation programs exclusively serve members of the community, while some of the traveling leagues consist of many nonresidents.
Jim Bell, chairman of the Recreation Committee, said that the basketball program, for example, currently costs $75 per participant. Should it rise to as much as $225, with many families having more than vet school one child playing, the program would be decimated, he said. The goal of the Recreation Committee is to have revenueneutral programs that notre dame high school carry themselves, because it is not fair to seniors and people without children in the community to bear the costs, mountain home school district he said.
"Based on these numbers, the basketball program will probably cease to exist," Bell said.
Bell asked moses lake school district Foley to show the math that inman middle school atlanta justifies the numbers. Foley said he did a general breakdown of energy costs for the school as well as hourly costs. Facility maintenance westchester high school was also factored in, he said.
Foley said that he has looked at the fee schedule of other districts, and the cheapest he found was Moorestown. That district charges $30 an hour for the gym, $15 for the ames high school cafeteria, and $10 per classroom. He suggested Millstone charge the same fees for cafeteria and classroom viking cooking school use but $15 an hour for the gym. On that basis, Foley said the township's recreational basketball program will cost $64,600.
Recreation Committee member Billy Hanson responded, "There's no rec basketball. No one will pay." |
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