The budgeted cost for this year’s Annual Sessions is $29,100. A daily fee has been calculated related to this cost and an estimated number of adults attending Annual Sessions. ILYM does not assess a fee for children and high school attenders. Considered costs include expenses for meals, on-site housing, programs, and infrastructure for on-site and virtual components.
A per day adult fee of $55.00 reflects a representative amount if received by each adult attender that would be needed to cover the cost of Annual Sessions. This is viewed as a shared fee in that all adult attendees share the expenses of children and high schoolers attending without cost to their families, of having the facilities physically usable and virtually streamable, and for all programs. An alternative representative fee of $15 per day has been calculated for virtual-only attendees.
ILYM realizes that attenders of Annual Sessions represent a diverse community of people. While many people are able to afford this representative daily fee, some people may not be able to afford paying this daily representative fee. And others would be able to afford paying more than the representative daily fee and would view this as helping to support the attendance of those who are not able to afford the representative daily fee.
In view of this understanding of the diversity of the ILYM community, ILYM has adopted a pay as led approach to covering the costs of Annual Sessions and to allow it to be affordable to a greater number of people.