The Onondoga County Legislature is putting an extra charge on event tickets to help pay for fixing up the Oncenter Complex.The revenue from this new fee would go into renovations, such as new seating, lighting and acoustical drapes for the Civic Theatres and a new scoreboard at War Memorial.
"We are one of the only arenas in pretty much the upstate and Central New York area that doesn't charge a facility user fee, so it is something that's been talked about for quite awhile," said Sandra Baker, vice president of marketing at Oncenter.
The County Legislature will meet next week to decide if the facility user fee is necessary, and if the proposal passes, lawmakers will meet with the Oncenter Board of Directors to figure out the details.
"We have to be very careful as the management company," said Baker. "We walk a really fine line here. We want to make sure the buildings are beautiful so that people want to come here. At the same time we want to work with our tenants to keep them here."
As for the actual cost of the new fee per ticket, Baker said the Legislature is talking about a "sliding price" where the tickets that are more expensive will have a fee of one to two dollars, whereas cheaper tickets of less than ten dollars may not have to pay the fee at all.
"We're looking at trying to make it as reasonable as possible. We know that surely even in this area, if someone goes into the Landmark Theatre they're paying a facility use fee there. If they're going into Rochester or now Binghamton just passed one and theirs was a two dollar user fee," said Baker. "So we're just trying to look at keeping it consistent with what they're doing in other areas too."
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