Citizen associations fighting the Vancouver park board over control of community centres are back in court.

Last year, organizations in Hastings, Kensington, Kerrisdale, Killarney, Riley Park Hillcrest, and Sunset won an injunction preventing the city from kicking them out of their facilities.

This time, with the exception of Riley Park Hillcrest, five of those associations are asking the B.C. Supreme Court to stop the installation of a new online registration system called ActiveNet.

According to the lawyer for the associations, Dean Davison, this system—planned to start on Tuesday (July 28)—will centralize community-centre revenues with the park board.

Davison explained that the move contravenes the joint operating agreements between the associations and park board, which provide that membership fees and other income derived from the use of the facilities shall be received by the associations.

“The big key is that rather than most of the money going directly to the associations, it’s now going directly to the parks board,” Davison told the Straight in a phone interview.

In their application before the court, the associations said the rollout of ActiveNet is in contempt of an injunction order issued in 2014 by Justice Gregory Bowden that directed the parties to maintain the status quo. A court has yet to try a civil case filed in 2013 by the six associations that claims the park board intends to centralize revenues and programming in violation of their joint operating agreements.

According to Davison, the park board is seeking to achieve with ActiveNet what it previously failed to do: “The joint operating agreement says that the associations should get the money from all programs and memberships, and the parks board says, ‘Well, look, we’re going to take it first and then we’ll give it to you.’”

Davison said his clients’ application to halt the installation of the new registration system will be heard in court Thursday (July 23).

The city didn’t make a spokesperson available for comment.