R-2008-06 adopt 2008 Update of Year 2002 Parks, Trails, and Open Space Master

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Public Hearing on 2008 Update of the 2002 Parks, Trails, and Open Space Master Plan May 19, 2008 City Council Chambers City of La Porte, Texas Transcript of Public Comments: Marlon Jackson, 10118 Roseberry Drive, La Porte, Texas, 77571. Hello City Council, my name is Marlon Jackson, 10118 Roseberry Drive, La Porte, Texas. I'm very supportive that y'all are going to re-Iook at this. Being involved with baseball, for ever since I was 18, playing until I was 25, umpiring the game. The lack of support that we're getting, it seems like, and that's coming from people out here at the ballpark every day this new complex "oh, we're going to be there next year, we're going to be there next year"; well, next year keeps coming around. Three years I was in contact with the AAYBA the American Amateur Youth Baseball Association. They were out of S1. Louis, Missouri, looking for a new host town for the World Series. Flower Mound, Texas now has that World Series. Just in my son's age bracket alone there are 56 teams going to the World Series this year. And, you average that about 4 people per family going to that, that's how much revenue the City's losing because we don't have a big complex. Because our little complex that we have now, which I have yet to see improvement on, other than being the support that we have as being volunteer based. The sprinkler system's down, we can't get the fields watered, we cannot keep the right moisture content in the clay, the kids are getting the strawberries, and the injuries there this year. And I think that the City Council needs to re-evaluate the complex deal with the City of Pasadena because the two people involved with the City of Pasadena, one of them that I have talked to intensely, says "It's not gonna' fly". So I really think City Council needs to re-Iook at this and maybe even look at Deer Park. Deer Park has money allotted for a complex, and whether they want to involve La Porte or not I don't know, but I do know also that, Barber's Hill is fixin' to build a major complex that's going to draw tournaments all away from here to other areas. Thank you. May 19. 2008 Public Hearing Page 1 of 3