The proposed race fee bill in Charleston is being rewritten again.

Members of city council’s Parks Committee voted Tuesday to draft a new version of the race fee bill. They believe the new bill is a middle ground between recouping costs to the city and fee opponents.

The new bill will charge the exact cost of the race to organizers of for-profit races, but will reduce the fees for nonprofits.

Instead of paying fixed fees, nonprofit races will determine a course of their choosing and will apply to the city for use of that course. Then, the city will determine how much operating the chosen course will cost the city, and will charge that amount to race organizers.

Organizers then have the option of further reducing the fee by listing the city of Charleston as a sponsor. Doing so would reduce the fee by half.

For example, an organization could select a course that would cost the city $600 to provide extra police and street department personnel for the event. The organization would then pay $600, unless it listed the city as a sponsor, which would reduce the fee to $300.

“It’s meeting halfway,” said South Hills Republican Councilwoman Susie Salisbury, who is the chairwoman of the Parks Committee and who proposed the new version of the bill. “It’s simple. It’s clean.”

Committee members all expressed support for the idea.

“I think this is a reasonable approach,” said Councilman Andy Richardson, an at-large Democrat.

Richardson suggested placing a minimum number of participants for a closure of Kanawha Boulevard, which is expensive for the city. In the past, he said, the Boulevard has been closed for events with as few as 30 participants.

City Manager David Molgaard also supported the idea, but said he would prefer some discretion built into the bill for city officials who set the fees. That way, the city could prevent organizers from choosing certain routes that would present challenges for city workers to close off.

In addition to the race fees, the proposed bill also changes fees the city charges for park facilities.

Discussion on Tuesday centered on tennis courts and the golf course at Cato Park.

Committee members proposed making tennis courts free for public use and ending the public reservation system. However, courts could still be reserved by Kanawha County Schools and the University of Charleston, and those entities would still pay a fee.

Rates for the Cato Park golf course will also likely be increased, and will be included on the new version of the bill.

The race fees, tennis fees and golf fees will all be incorporated into a revised version of the bill, which will need to be voted on by the Parks Committee before going to the full council.

In April, city council voted down the first version of the race fee ordinance and sent the bill back to council’s Parks and Recreation Committee for further review.

That version proposed charging $2,200 to organizations wishing to use Kanawha Boulevard for their event, and $500 for courses established elsewhere. The bill also allowed the city to modify the fees based on the number of participants, variations in the race route and if additional city employees are needed.

Fees for any nonprofit that had a similar event in 2013 would have had fees waived for 2014. For-profit races and new races would not be exempt.

Charleston currently does not charge any such hosting fees.

After council sent the bill back to the Parks Committee, committee members held a public meeting in Kanawha City on May 28 to get input about the fees from community members and race organizers.