2025 will see the first year of standardised Facility and Field Charging enforced on codes by Tauranga City Council. These costs are non negotiable. Non payment means no use.

This will see council owned facilities that are leased by clubs charged at a standardised square metreage rate. In addition to this it sees clubs having to hold certain kinds and levels of insurance and be responsible for any land rates, power, internet, cleaning, pollution and continued maintainence / repair to the leased part of the facility.The bigger the building the more one needs to recover.

Fixed costs for fields and our clubroom in our 6 month period is est at circa $15,000 being 1 April to 30 September. It is important to note that this cost does not include any operational expenses, effectively the operating cost to open and run the facility which would includes things like staff/food and drink etc

The lease we hold on the clubrooms is inconjunction with Papamoa Cricket Club, so not ours in its entirety. Invariably we have minimal rights in the summer period which is defined as 1 October to 31 March.

In addition to this the club is also responsible to purchase all equipment to be used within it's leased period such as tables and chairs. The council supplies some fixed chattlels.

For the 2025 season we will also see Tauranga City Council charge codes for field use. The charging mechanism adopted by TCC is solely charged on Senior use however the club has made the decision to portportion this cost accross its entire membership base as everyone uses the fields. The charge to seniors is a greater portion than for example minimoas as seniors require more use(training and games versus just a game)

Cost Recovery on Clubrooms-The club has implemented a cost recovery model for year 1 of the clubroom until we can quantify the total operational costs required to run a season.The 3 seperate operational areas are Minimoa, Community Junior/Youth and Senior. Each area of the club should ideally achieve cost recovery so as not to burden other areas of membership.

The set facility and field charges will be shared by all members with specific operational costs being assigned to each area using the facility at a particular time.Fundamentally the more the clubrooms are supported by each area the cheaper they become to run.

Senior Charging/Aftermatch-Operational requirements for senior membership are completely different to those for minimoa and community junior/youth.Therefore in the 2025 winter season we will adopt a mechanism similar to that of Tauranga City and Otumoetai football club for aftermatch.

As an example Tauranga City teams are invoiced $150 per game to cover the cost of catering and staffing. For year 1 and until costs are rolled through we will introduce an upfront cost per team ($1000) which will be fully refundable at season end should we achieve break even.

We can look to make changes for 2026 when exact operational costs are known.