BUTLER TWP — The Butler School Board is considering raising its athletic participation fee and adding a new fee for other extracurricular activities.

The board at its meeting Monday night looked at several options proposed by Brian Slamecka, assistant superintendent.

A proposal to raise the $60 fee per student athlete fee to $75 would raise about $13,000. During a committee meeting March 20, board member David Korn said that the fee revenue has been used for replacing equipment, but it could also help in restoring past budget cuts in the district’s $1.5 million athletic budget.

Under the current fee system, a student only pays the fee once per year, not once per sport. There also is a maximum of $240 in fees for each family and discounts for students who receive reduced-cost or free lunches.

The board also is considering the possibility of imposing a participation fee of $75 on nonathletic performance activities such as the marching band, Sequinettes, and theater productions and activities that have advisers who are paid, such as mock trial, academic decathlon and the yearbook.

The revenue from the new fees would be put toward expenses for those activities, such as new uniforms for the marching band.

Several school board members said that it would be only fair that students in activities other than sports also have to pay a fee to participate.

“Some of these activities do incur costs,” board member John Conrad said.

Jennifer Cummings, board vice president, said that the board could use the fees in the Seneca Valley district as an example. Seneca charges $125 for athletes and smaller fees for different types of nonathletic activities.

The board also will consider raising student parking fees from $75 to $100 and raising reserved-seat football tickets from $7 to $8.

The board can vote on fee changes at its meeting on April 24.