13A - COMMITTEE RPT - PREY 10-29-13 AND 07-29-13

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• fields should be non-profit. He referenced SAUSD going through a similar field allocation process several years ago and the school district leaned towards youth over adults. The City and SAUSD over the years have shared ideas to better this process to ensure fields are being used by Santa Ana residents. o Council Member Amezcua indicated that the lottery was done fairly and was a random draw not favoring one league over another and will be an annual lottery. o Mayor Pro Tem thanked staff for a great job; it is not an easy job to distribute fields when there is a lack of open space in Santa Ana. Before there were two leagues with six available fields, one league had four fields and the other had two. Now there are three leagues and each league has two fields. OCRB has shown that they will maintain fields and the other leagues will have to do the same - only time will tell. It's about choice and providing a good product. When there is a monopoly on fields quality is low, fees are high and fields are not maintained. Recently the dug out at Valley High School was damaged and league did not take responsibility to report the damage to the school or the city. It seemed leagues were running amuck and coaches and players did not have a voice. Coaches now have a voice. Choices empowers kids first and adults second. No one lost in this situation, everyone is still here. Kids need to know if they don't fight for something they will never get anything. With the adult Baseball Surcharge we will have money to fix fields • which will benefit everyone. We ask that everyone be good stewards of the fields. ¦ MOTION: • Council Committee Members, Tinajero, Amezcua and Reyna supported and approved staff's direction on the lottery process for adult baseball. • STAFF UPDATE o None • COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS o None ADJOURNED: 6:55 p.m. Gerardo Mouet Executive Director, Lf PREY Regular Meeting Page 5 July 29, 2013 13A-11