The City of Mississauga is building a City for the 21st Century where all residents have the opportunity to connect and
thrive by enjoying recreation programs that enable them to
live healthy and active lives.

Mississauga Recreation & Parks is committed to provide sound access to quality programming and community services and through user fees in balance with funding from taxes so that these programs and services continue today and in the future.

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Recreation and Parks is committed to providing and maintaining quality programming and community services.

We recognize that in order to support this that we need to simplify and streamline existing fees and chargers for recreation services and make pricing more easily understood by clients and residents. We also understand that we must have a foundation for an efficient pricing process and a fee structure that will ensure financially sustainable services in the future. The Pricing Study Team has reviewed the Recreation and Parks' current pricing framework and has proposed a new framework to support these objective that will provide sound access to recreation programs and services through user fees in balance with funding from taxes. Implementation of a simplified and streamlined pricing policy will ensure that the City of Mississauga is able to appropriately set user fees, in an understandable way, so that programs and services will continue today and in the future.

RELATED LINKS  Corporate Report GC - Pricing Study October 19, 2011 (266 KB)  GC Report Appendix 1 - Pricing Study Joint Report (974 KB)  GC Report Appendix 3 Pricing Study Impact analysis (9,651 KB)  GC Report Appendix 4 - Budget Reconciliation Analysis (77 KB)  Pricing Study Q & A (113 KB)  Recreation and Parks Pricing Study Media Advisory (108 KB)  Recreation and Parks Pricing Study News Release (113 KB)  Mississauga Pricing Policy Final Report (1,096 KB)  Public Engagement Presentation Meeting Rooms (494 KB)  Public Engagement Presentation Sports Groups (496 KB)

February 2011
The Pricing Study project team was formed to carry out a broad review of Recreation user fees to examine both the manner in which user fees are determined as well as the pricing principles, or philosophy, guiding them.


June 2011
The Pricing Team presented to Council an interim report entitled 'Recreation and Parks Pricing Study' from the Commissioner of Community Services, allowing for the scheduling of public consultations in Fall 2011, based on the principles detailed in this report.


October 2011
The project team delivered a draft final report on October 19, 2011. This report includes recommendations for a new pricing framework, a new consolidated pricing structure, as well as a series of new price points.


November 2011
In November staff will hold public information sessions to review proposed, draft recommendations for a new, simplified pricing structure for recreation programs and services.

Summarized feedback from these sessions will be provided by the end of November, and posted on the project website.


December 2011
The final report will consolidate and incorporate the information gathered from the public engagement sessions with the findings of the draft report, and will be presented to council in December of 2011.

Public consultation sessions outlining preliminary proposals and direction of the City's pricing study were held in the second week of November, one was a general session while the other two were targeted towards particular groups and demographic segments. Consultation with sports organizations and high volume meeting room users were held in 2012 and representatives of those particular groups were invited to sessions where reviewed the recommendations proposed by the Pricing Study for recreation programs and services, with particular emphasis on sports fields rates and meeting room rates. RELATED LINKS  Public Engagement Feedback (101 KB)