Sports teams and athletes across the City of
Greater Sudbury will soon pay the same fee to use soccer and
baseball fields.
Council approved a sports user fee
harmonization bylaw Thursday evening, meaning sports teams in
Capreol and Dowling will pay the exact same fee as teams and
users in the former City of Sudbury within three years
time.
The current fee structure saw teams and users
in the former city pay about $17 an hour to rent soccer and
ball fields, while the fee was about $12 per
hour in the outlying regions.
The new fee will be harmonized over the next
three years. At the end of the process, all teams and users
will pay about $15 an hour to use soccer and
ball fields.
Councillor Andre Rivest worked on the user
fee harmonization committee. The group "didn't receive a single
complaint" from any user group during several rounds of public
consultations, he said.
The plan also calls to city staff to ensure
ball and soccer fields are upgraded and improved over the
course of the next three years throughout Greater Sudbury, said
Rivest.
