WSA_Youth and Family Master Plan Phase I - September 2009

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Lillie King Park 8 Limited use because a neighborhood park for 4 hours on Saturdays and 4 hours on Sundays Monroe Dia 23.5 Spurgeon Track 23.5 Valley High School 18 Not available on Saturdays (school programming) and Sundays (adult baseball). "At Capacity" ChavezlCampesino 24 Delhi (West) & 24 (East) EI Salvador #1 & 24 #2 Jerome #2, #3 & #4 24 Rosita 24 Santa Anita 24 Spurgeon #1, #2 & 24 #3 Windsor 24 DYSC #430 44 Synthetic field with no restrictions on # of hours of programming. "Over Capacity" Adams 25 Because soccer is played at City and at school park spaces, it is important to examine SAUSD's perception of field use and over-use. Overall, SAUSD has 32 schools with current soccer programs. SAUSD reports that they are over the maximum recommended hours of field use on their fields- they are operating at over 20 hourslweek. In the summer months, to compensate for the overuse of the fields during the school year, several school fields are closed mid-June through August to re-seed; this results in the surrounding community having one or more months of unavailable school field use.31 Furthermore, with the approval of the recent Measure G school modernization bond, the following SAUSD fields will be impacted and the fields rendered unusable for 1 year from the date below: • Greenville -closed of December 2008 • Diamond -closed as of April 2009 • Lowell -closed as of December 2008 • Madison -closed as of December 2008 • Martin -set to close December 2009 In orderto better maximize the use of the fields, adding more programming to fields that are least used should be considered. One such consideration should be made for Jerome Park. Field #1 at Jerome Park can be used approximately 8 more hours a week. Moreover, 484 registered players live within a half-mile radius of Jerome Park, making it the most densely populated buffer zone in the city in terms of 3o This field is synthetic turf and therefore, does not have the same 24 hour maximum weekly use. 31 For example, according to SAUSD Field Closure Summer 2009 (prepared May 19,2009), the following 17 SAUSD fields are partially or entirely closed from June 22nd until school reopens for the 2009-2010 academic year: Century, Godinez, Saddleback, Santa Ana, Segerstrom, Valley, Carr, Spurgeon, Villa, Willard, Heninger, Pio Pico, Romero-Cruz, Roosevelt, Taft, Washington and Wilson.