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While New Canaan’s highest elected official has suggested dissolving a committee tasked with overseeing youth sports in town and transferring the responsibility to a standing commission, fellow members of the Board of Selectmen are pushing back on that move.
April 24, 2018 | https://newcanaanite.com/board-of-selectmen-divided-on-disbanding-youth-sports-committee-67795Following a unanimous vote three years in the making, members of a committee charged with overseeing youth sports in New Canaan are poised to recommend formally that organizations using town-owned fields be assessed a $20 fields usage fee per player per season.
October 12, 2015 | https://newcanaanite.com/youth-sports-committee-votes-5-0-for-mandatory-20-per-player-per-season-fields-usage-fee-32188A selectman on Tuesday urged a committee that oversees youth sports in New Canaan to operate with total transparency and make good on its original charge to ensure that the private groups overseeing youth football, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse and other sports are contributing equally to the town on a per-player basis to fields maintenance.
August 4, 2015 | https://newcanaanite.com/selectman-to-youth-sports-committee-meet-your-charge-and-with-total-transparency-30199The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to increase the per-son fee assessed to youth sports participants from $20 to $25.
Formerly overseen by a selectmen-appointed committee, the “player use fee” now is collected by the New Canaan Athletic Foundation and allocated to an artificial turf replacement fund rather than a budget for additional playing fields, according to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan.
October 10, 2019 | https://newcanaanite.com/town-increases-youth-sports-player-use-fee-to-25-1886863Just as they appear to be divided on whether to disband a committee that oversees youth sports in New Canaan, members of the Board of Selectmen recently voiced diverging points of view with respect to the volunteers who help operate the dog park at Waveny.
April 30, 2018 | https://newcanaanite.com/selectmen-also-divided-on-whether-to-disband-spencers-run-volunteer-committee-67975