ADOPTED - OCTOBER 23, 2007

Agenda Item No. 8

Introduced by the County Services Committee of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION ADOPTING A MODIFICATION TO THE SCHOOL GROUP DEFINITION FOR ADMISSION INTO THE POTTER PARK ZOO

RESOLUTION #07-250

WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners, on the recommendation of the Parks & Recreation Commission, adopted a fee schedule (Resolution #07-129) for Potter Park and the Potter Park Zoo; and

WHEREAS, the fee schedule included a section that provided for free admission to all schools in Ingham County on classroom trips, but limited eligible students to 16 and under; and

WHEREAS, that arrangement is problematic for groups that include High School students both above and below the age limit; and

WHEREAS, the Potter Park Zoo Board and the Ingham County Parks & Recreation Commission recommend that the fee schedule be modified to include all students through 12^th grade regardless of age.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Resolution #07-129, adopting a fee schedule for the Potter Park Zoo, be modified by changing the wording of the fee for all schools in Ingham County to state “Visitors on school-sponsored group trips from schools within Ingham County through grade 12 will be admitted without charge.”

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the change in the fee schedule will take effect upon Board of Commissioners’ adoption of this resolution

COUNTY SERVICES:  Yeas:  De Leon, Nolan, Copedge, Soule, Severino, Dougan

Nays:  None     Absent:  None    Approved 10/16/07