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Tee-time reservations

Posted on 05/15/2024

MOTION -- I MOVE that the matter of the NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to the operation and management of the tee-time reservation system and efforts to address and stop black-market tee-time brokers from booking and reselling tee-times for profit, and related matters, Item No. 5 on today’s Council Agenda (Council File 24-0445), BE AMENDED to adopt the following language:  

REQUEST the Department of Recreation and Parks (RAP) to:

  1. Report on their operation and management of the tee-time reservation system and reservation systems for soccer, baseball, and any other sports with reservation systems and their efforts to address and stop black-market tee-time brokers from booking and reselling tee-times and reservations for soccer, baseball, and any other sports with reservation systems for profit.
  2. Report on any potential fee adjustments for golf course use, soccer field use, baseball field use, and the use of fields for any other sports with reservation systems that could cover costs associated with monitoring the current reservation system and/or upgrading the system used for bookings.
  3. Report on how the tee time reservation system and reservation systems for soccer, baseball, and any other sports with reservation systems will incorporate high school athletic teams within the reservation system, which should include the ability to carve out reimbursements for unused tee time and unused reservations for soccer, baseball, and any other sports with reservation systems.
  4. Report on the feasibility of exempting high school athletic teams, or youth play, entirely from the new fees related to the tee-time reservation system and reservation systems for soccer, baseball, and any other sports with reservation systems.
  5. Report to the Neighborhoods and Community Enrichment Committee with a plan to align the city of Los Angeles’s golf policy and policies of other sports including soccer, baseball, and any other sports with reservation systems to Los Angeles County’s standards. This would include implementing provisions related to youth rates for youth or high school athletic teams (including for coaches, athletic directors, or programs that are booking the tee time), prioritizing offering youth play tee time scheduling and the scheduling of other sports with reservation systems ahead of the general public offering, and access to appropriate times in the afternoon for youth play.