Local Day Camp/Clinic/Class Permit Information
Reserving Park Facilities
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Application
Form
Day
Camp/Clinic/Class Permit Request Forrm (pdf, 121KB)
Required
Attachment (pdf, 15KB)
Special Rules (pdf, 30KB)
A policy for the consideration
of third-party operated camps on skill clinics/class on public parkland was adopted
by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission,
Montgomery County Planning Board on February 1, 2004.
NOTE: These fees are only applicable to camps and clinics
held during the summer of 2004 and are subject to review and
revision for future seasons.
Policy
The Department of Park and Planning shall allow the operation of camps and skill clinics on public parkland by non-profit as well as for-profit organizations. The fee structure is designed to both provide these fields for Montgomery County youth, and to establish a dedicated fund that can go toward enhanced maintenance of the fields, including (longer term) irrigation of the fields, to support the increased use.
Procedures and Fees
The following procedures will manage the request and approval processes for summer camp and clinic requests:
- These local parks should be considered first as most appropriate for day camps and skill clinics, since they contain reservable picnic shelters with locked restrooms and at least two athletic fields (to provide additional field capacity to allow for rotating field use):
- East Norbeck Local Park
- Darnestown Local Park
- Gunners Lake Local Park
- Ovid Hazen Wells Recreational Park
- Wheaton Forest Local Park
- Georgian Forest Local Park
- Calverton Galway Local Park
- Requests for local parks not designated above must be approved by the Park Manager.
- Other facilities, such as recreation buildings in local parks, picnic shelters and fields in regional parks may also be considered.
- The weekly fee for one of the designated "camp/clinic" parks (or other approved local park with more than one field) will be $150 in addition to $150 refundable security deposit, payable at the time the permit is issued.
- The weekly fee for use of a Regional or Recreational park facility will be $250 in addition to a $150 refundable security deposit, payable at the time the permit is issued.
- All camp operators will be charged 10% of their gross receipts, payable prior to the start of its first session.
- A surcharge of $10.00 per camper/per session will be applied and payable by the start of the first session.
- Applications must be submitted to the Park Permit Office by December 31st for consideration for the summer season and by May 31st for the fall season.
- Applications must include a brochure describing the camp's target age group, programs and fees, if available from the camp's previous year of operation.
- Applications must include a certificate of liability and contractual indemnity insurance naming "The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission" as additional insured.
- Applications will be reviewed by the Park Permit Office for availability of and assignment of field and facility space, by the Park Manager for identification of maintenance tasks, and by the General Counsel for preparation and approval of the contract.
- Camp operators will be responsible for adherence to all local, state and federal laws pertaining to camp operations, including criminal background checks on its employees.
- The Commission may impose other fees for damages estimated to be beyond the initial deposit.
- No refunds or adjustments will be made for inclement weather cancellations.
- The Montgomery County Recreation Department will be exempt from these special fees and will be charged the regular rate for permitting recreation buildings and fields in order to operate its summer camp program.
- Any funds expended by or on behalf of the operator of a camp
for the maintenance and/or the renovation of park athletic
facilities may be offset against the 10% of the gross receipts
and or the $10/player assessment, but not both.
NOTE: Check Special Rules
Last date of page update: March 19, 2008
