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• <br />Long Term Option <br />In the long term, there are two primary goals we are seeking to accomplish by moving <br />youth baseball to another site(s). One is obviously to meet the Association's needs by <br />providing excellent quality fields and infrastructure that is safe and suitable to showcase <br />La Porte. The other is to return Fairmont Park to its original status as a community park. <br />That's why we feel that a good option is to pursue both options listed above, with the <br />first phase being Option 1, providing five or six fields at Westside, and funded in the <br />proposed upcoming bond issue. It would be followed by a second phase; providing an <br />additional five or six fields using the Haynesworth property, in a future bond issue. <br />Advantages: <br />• Fairmont Park is returned to its original purpose as a community park. <br />• Youth baseball needs are met for the next fifteen -twenty years. <br />• By phasing in development there is less strain on our bond program, freeing <br />up funding for other more pressing City-wide infrastructure needs. <br />Disadvantages: <br />• By providing infrastructure facilities (i.e. parking, concessions, etc.) at both <br />sites, the cost increases by about $1 million over the long term. <br />• Still results in two separate facilities. <br />Whether either short-term, or the long-term options are exercised, the proposed new <br />youth baseball facilities would meet the long-term needs of the baseball association <br />here in La Porte by providing a well -designed layout(s) with adequate parking, restroom, <br />and other support facilities to meet the needs of La Porte's youth baseball players and <br />their families. <br />13.3 <br />