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.
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.