Community Use of Field and School Facilities Policy

At a glance

• What: a joint town and school policy for community use of fields and school facilities, drafted by the Recreation Committee and school department. It sets priority (town meeting and elections, school sports, recreation, then local nonprofits and youth sports, then outside groups), booking and cancellation rules, insurance, damage responsibility and fees.
• Where it stands: The School Committee adopted it; the Select Board saw it for the first time on October 20, noted a wording error in the fee table and unanswered questions about which account fees go into, and took no vote.
• Next: corrected wording, answers on fee accounts and the related revolving fund article, then a Board vote. See Revolving Funds for Police Cruisers and Recreation.

Sources

• The town's posted agenda and YouTube auto-generated captions of the Area 58 meeting video (Agenda Center: https://www.carverma.gov/AgendaCenter).

Log

2026-10-20 - Select Board

• Recreation Committee representatives presented the policy. Youth sports pay a flat $15 per participant (unchanged for about ten years) while the school side prefers hourly rates; outside nonprofit and for-profit fees rose; adult leagues that are not nonprofits will need liability insurance; Town Counsel said damage-responsibility terms are common and enforceable. A motion to approve was made and seconded, but the Board wanted to learn where school-space and field fees are deposited and to fix the table wording first; no vote is recorded.