Solutions · Park and recreation districts
Independent districts, your own board, and an ADA deadline that applies whatever your size.
Special district governments are in scope for ADA Title II regardless of population, which puts every independent park and recreation district on the April 26, 2028 compliance date. If your current vendor cannot produce a conformance report, that exposure sits with your district.
Park districts, recreation districts, conservation districts and joint recreation authorities.
Why districts are a distinct case
- ADA scope
- Special district governments are in scope regardless of population
- Date
- April 26, 2028, extended by one year in April 2026
- Board
- Your own elected or appointed board, your own adopted fee schedule
- Revenue
- Cost recovery matters more when levy revenue is capped
- ADA
- In scope regardless of population
- Deadline
- April 26, 2028 for special districts
- Evidence
- Conformance report for your board's file
- Pricing
- By population served, every module included
What districts tell us they need
Cost recovery and a board that can see it.
A district lives on programs, memberships and rentals, and its board asks harder questions about cost recovery than a city council usually does, because the district has fewer places to hide a subsidy.
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Revenue and subsidy by rate class
What resident, non-resident, nonprofit and commercial use each contributed against direct cost. The report a fee schedule review needs and the one a board minutes.
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Programs and rentals in one system
Registration for classes and camps and rental of the rooms those programs occupy, so a class and a private rental cannot claim the same space.
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Memberships that mean something
Entitlements that apply themselves to registration pricing and booking priority, rather than a discount the front desk has to remember.
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Allocation you can defend at a board meeting
Field allocation scored against your adopted policy, published to every league at once, with the reasoning visible.
The accessibility position, stated plainly
This is the reason most districts are in the market at all.
The Department of Justice rule requires WCAG 2.1 Level AA for state and local government web content. Special district governments are named, with no population threshold. The date moved from April 26, 2027 to April 26, 2028 in the interim final rule published on April 20, 2026.
- A conformance report you can file. An accessibility conformance report for the resident portal covering WCAG 2.1 Level AA, suitable for your purchasing file and your board's record.
- The whole resident path, not the marketing pages. Booking, registration, payment, confirmation email, invoice and the permit PDF. Those are the pages in scope and the ones most vendors have not tested.
- A named contact and response times. A route for a resident or your ADA coordinator to report a barrier, with stated response commitments.
- What we do not claim. We are not on the GovRAMP authorized product list and we hold no cooperative purchasing contract. Both are stated in our Trust Center rather than discovered at contract.
Questions
Asked on most calls.
If your panel needs an answer that is not here, send the question and we will publish it.
We are a small district. Is this priced for us?
Pricing is based on the population you serve, so a small district pays a small district rate, with every business area included and unlimited staff accounts. Ask for a written quote and you will have it in five business days.
Can we run just program registration to start?
Yes. Many districts start with registration or with rentals and add the other later at no additional license fee.
Does the April 2028 date really apply to us?
The rule names special district governments regardless of size. We would still recommend your counsel confirms your district's status rather than taking a vendor's word for it, and we will point them at the rule text.
See it against your own facilities.
Bring the list of every space you rent out and your adopted fee schedule. Forty-five minutes, no slides.