FCPS Charging Scouts to Use School Space
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Anonymous
| Has this been discussed yet? Apparently Scouting America groups are getting invoices for using classroom space at schools for the first time ever. Most people I've seen discussing it assume Girl Scouts will soon follow. |
Anonymous
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Is this FCPS specific?
Do you have a source or just repeating a random complaint on Reddit? |
Anonymous
Repeating a random complaint that I've seen in a couple of different places online, but I was hoping someone who has first hand experience would weigh in. |
Anonymous
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There has always been a fee to use school
space. Cafeteria space is pricy. |
Anonymous
| All community use groups pay fees for space. Why would Scouts not be charges? |
Anonymous
| No, in the past Scouts were exempted because of their non-profit status. FCPS recently issued a new policy mandating all groups, including non-profits pay. |
Anonymous
| Why shouldn't they pay? FCPS has to pay janitorial staff to keep the doors open for them. |
Anonymous
Message to Scouts, no more freeloading on the backs of taxpayers. |
Anonymous
DP but we meet at a DCPS school (for free) and part of the deal is that we all have to be out of the building by the time it regularly closes up after aftercare. Unless they're meeting on the weekend there really aren't additional costs from having a club meet in an empty classroom. |
Anonymous
This year: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DJ7QFV69256A/$file/N8420%20FY26%20Attachment.pdf An old copy where scouts is specifically called out as not paying (p 1): https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DAKNER5F98D8/$file/R8420%20Atts%20A%20thru%20F.pdf |
Anonymous
Wow, I bet you're loads of laughs at parties. Given the school at which my Troop met is in our neighborhood and thus we are the taxpayers funding that building that sits in our neighborhood, I don't really see how that is "freeloading." And to the other point about the janitors being there to open the doors. Guess what? They're there whether we use the place or not. If you'd like to charge us a fraction of their hourly wage for not locking the door then, ok, I guess. |
Anonymous
Yeah, all those dratted Scouts who are freeloading off the taxpayers, when that money should be going toward Michelle Reid hiring 4 dedicated security personnel, amiright? |
Anonymous
| So how much is it? |
Anonymous
Check page 1 here, depends on the room: https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/DJ7QFV69256A/$file/N8420%20FY26%20Attachment.pdf |
Anonymous
It's kind of hard to answer that because they charge per use. There's a rental fee, a cleaning fee, then an additional fee to have a staff member there to supervise if your group is over 35 people. I did the math for my Troop and estimated it to be somewhere between $7,500 and $8,000 for us to use the space we've used in the past. That's just an outrageous amount to ask a non-profit youth organization to pay. We'll just go somewhere else. |