I will chime in with an additional consideration: Skokie families in D65 get charged non-resident prices for City of Evanston summer camps. If your child would like to attend summer camp with their school friends, they have to pay extra (an extra that prices some families out). Affected parents asked the Parks District to change this (li…
I will chime in with an additional consideration: Skokie families in D65 get charged non-resident prices for City of Evanston summer camps. If your child would like to attend summer camp with their school friends, they have to pay extra (an extra that prices some families out). Affected parents asked the Parks District to change this (like they did for the beaches) and got a flat ‘no.’ I suspect that if the City worked with D65 and looked into it further, they’d find that offering resident prices to the limited number of Skokie families in D65 would be financially feasible.
Evanston residents also pay the non-resident fee for Skokie parks & rec programs, because they are funded by residents’ taxes, correct? I assume the rationale is that residents have already paid part of their tuition in the form of taxes while non-residents have not. I would welcome a reciprocity arrangement in which Evanston and Skokie programs extend resident status to one another—but since the whole program faces elimination, additional discounts are probably a non-starter right now.
No no, you’re right Kasey. For the D65-run camps, the price is the same for Skokie D65 families. I’m referring only to the Parks and Recs camps, run by the city. I think resident-fee reciprocity would make sense if Evanston kids were attending Skokie schools. But the tax issue that you raise still holds: Skokie D65 families pay D65 school taxes but not Evanston parks and rec taxes. If they eliminate the D65 summer camp, I think the case is even stronger for allowing D65 Skokie families to attend Evanston camps with their school friends at resident prices, since there would now be no same-cost option for all D65 kids.
I don’t live in Skokie but we have done quite a few Skokie camps just because I find them better organized and run and the non resident rate for Skokie camps is pretty similar to the resident rate for Evanston camps in a lot of cases.
Yes, the park district ones. My kid has done summer and school break camps and we’ve had good experiences and I’ve found them to be the same cost or even cheaper than Evanston. Obviously you have to have the time and transportation to get your kid to Skokie.
I appreciate this spreadsheet. Can I humbly ask for a 'location' column? Some of them are self-explanatory--but the City runs camps from Lovelace Park all the way down to the South.
Oh yeah, good idea. I might feed the City guide through some AI and get back a full table. Without the D65 one, I'm going to have to do a mishmash of all the CoE ones.
I will chime in with an additional consideration: Skokie families in D65 get charged non-resident prices for City of Evanston summer camps. If your child would like to attend summer camp with their school friends, they have to pay extra (an extra that prices some families out). Affected parents asked the Parks District to change this (like they did for the beaches) and got a flat ‘no.’ I suspect that if the City worked with D65 and looked into it further, they’d find that offering resident prices to the limited number of Skokie families in D65 would be financially feasible.
Evanston residents also pay the non-resident fee for Skokie parks & rec programs, because they are funded by residents’ taxes, correct? I assume the rationale is that residents have already paid part of their tuition in the form of taxes while non-residents have not. I would welcome a reciprocity arrangement in which Evanston and Skokie programs extend resident status to one another—but since the whole program faces elimination, additional discounts are probably a non-starter right now.
Sorry, I take your point: this is D65 program, not a parks & rec one. My mistake! 🙏
No no, you’re right Kasey. For the D65-run camps, the price is the same for Skokie D65 families. I’m referring only to the Parks and Recs camps, run by the city. I think resident-fee reciprocity would make sense if Evanston kids were attending Skokie schools. But the tax issue that you raise still holds: Skokie D65 families pay D65 school taxes but not Evanston parks and rec taxes. If they eliminate the D65 summer camp, I think the case is even stronger for allowing D65 Skokie families to attend Evanston camps with their school friends at resident prices, since there would now be no same-cost option for all D65 kids.
I don’t live in Skokie but we have done quite a few Skokie camps just because I find them better organized and run and the non resident rate for Skokie camps is pretty similar to the resident rate for Evanston camps in a lot of cases.
The Park district ones? Let me add to my spreadsheet
Yes, the park district ones. My kid has done summer and school break camps and we’ve had good experiences and I’ve found them to be the same cost or even cheaper than Evanston. Obviously you have to have the time and transportation to get your kid to Skokie.
I appreciate this spreadsheet. Can I humbly ask for a 'location' column? Some of them are self-explanatory--but the City runs camps from Lovelace Park all the way down to the South.
Oh yeah, good idea. I might feed the City guide through some AI and get back a full table. Without the D65 one, I'm going to have to do a mishmash of all the CoE ones.