A football camp at Canyon Springs High School on Saturday, June 8, 2019. (Steve Marcus, Las Vegas Sun)
A provision of the new rules requires private leagues to front the cost of at least two school district police officers to provide security at every game on a CCSD field or court. The cost would be nearly $60 per hour, per officer.
Added to the existing fees for school custodians and the actual field rentals, that would cost the nonprofit National Youth Sports Nevada about $17,000 per day during fall football season alone, said Michael MacLeod, the organization’s director of business development.
If the group must absorb the cost, or pass it on to parents, he fears the worst.
“Tackle (youth) football would be gone from Southern Nevada,” he said. “We are the only ones that offer it.”
His anxiety comes from a March document from CCSD’s Secondary Student Athletics and Activities Department that said school police logs showed “a majority” of sporting events contested on school property by outside groups last summer required officer responses “due to disruptive participants and other various incidents.”
