CUMMING — Prices will change for tickets and parking at this year’s Cumming Country Fair & Festival.

The Cumming City Council voted 5-0 on Tuesday night to adjust the price structure for the popular annual event following a presentation from Dave Horton, fairgrounds administrator. The new admission fees affect the prices for some students.

“Right now, [admission for] children 4 and under is free, students 18 and under is $3 and adults is $7,” Horton said. “What we’re proposing is to make a larger age group free.

“We’re proposing 10 and under is free admission every day of the fair, and 11 and up would be $7.”

According to Horton, the primary reason for the change was to thin entrance lines and allow cashiers to make change with a single ticket price.

“What we’re proposing is to kind of streamline and make our operation at the ticket booths a little more efficient,” he said. “Right now, we have two tickets, two tickets prices, and what we’re proposing is one ticket, one ticket price.”

The new prices would remain lower than those of similar offerings nearby.

“We did some checking with some of the surrounding fairs,” Horton said. “Gwinnett County, ages 6-64 is $7. Georgia National Fair, which is down in Perry at the exact same time as our fair, is $10 and under is free and 11 and over is $10. Georgia Mountain fair in Hiawassee is 12 and under is free and 13 and up is $12.”

Similarly, parking prices for the fair will rise from $3 to $5.

“That’s just a situation where our parking attendants, the first 10 people that come in hit them with $100 bills and they were calling for change drops continuously,” Horton explained

The fair is scheduled to begin this year on Oct. 6.