Office of the City Manager
Reference: Adoption of proposed rates, fees, and charges to be assessed by the City of Brighton for 2025
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Michael P. Martinez, City Manager
Prepared By: Kathryn Mortensen, Budget and Performance Manager
Date Prepared: September 25, 2024
PURPOSE
To have Council adopt the proposed rates, fees, and charges to be assessed by the City of Brighton for 2025.
BACKGROUND
The City Council is mandated to establish a resolution delineating specific rates, fees, and charges for the City of Brighton annually. For the 2025 calendar year, the most significant changes are due to reformatting of the document. This re-formatting ensures consistency as well as ADA accessibility of the document. The changes recommended to fees for 2025 are to reflect to actual cost of doing business.
The first group of changes recommended is for the Recreation Center. Changes include increasing punch passes vists from 15 to 20, and passes from quarterly to monthly,with pricing adjusted accordingly. Moreover, the cost of facility rentals at the Recreation Center, such as the gymnasium, recreation center pool, aerobics, and dance room, as well as personal training rates, have been adjusted to ensure pricing consistency and competitiveness with surrounding agencies. For youth and adult sports programming, fees have also been adjusted and transformed into price ranges instead of individual pricing, based on surrounding agencies' pricing structures and to allow flexibility.
The pricing for the Eagle View Adult Center has also been adjusted to match the Brighton Recreation Center pricing to ensure consistency across all facilities. In the Oasis Family Aquatic Park, fees have also been adjusted after a cost comparison with other organizations indicated we were not in line with current market rates.
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