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<br />MEMO <br /> <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members <br /> <br />FROM: Kim Stephan <br /> <br />DATE: February 8, 2007 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Request from Centennial Soccer Club for Use of Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park Soccer <br />Fields for the 2007 Season <br /> <br />The Centennial Soccer Club has requested the use of the fields at Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park in a letter <br />dated January 3, 2007. There are two parts to the request: <br /> <br />1. Requesting two fields, 25 x 40 yard open spaces, located east of the parking lot and bound by <br />the bike path, for the U2 - U8 age group, for games only. This request is for Monday - Friday <br />from 4 p.m. to dusk, April 28 through June 30, 2007. The Centennial Soccer Club will set up <br />goals and manage a reservation system to assign teams to specific dates and times for games. <br /> <br />2. Requesting one field, 70 x 60 yard open space, located south of the skate park, for the Ull - <br />U12 age group, for practice only. This request is for Monday - Friday 3:00 p.m. to dusk, <br />Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to dusk, April 1 through October 29, 2007. The Centennial <br />Soccer Club will set up goals and manage a reservation system to assign teams to specific dates <br />and times for practices. <br /> <br />Council Member Lee mentioned that when the football season starts in August there will be no place for the <br />local youth teams to practice if all the fields are committed to the Centennial Soccer Club every day of the <br />week from April through October. The committee's concern with this was that the football association has <br />not asked for time or fields and the Soccer Club has. It was suggested the football representatives be made <br />aware they should be requesting time. In discussing this request however, some of the committee members <br />felt the fields should have some time left open for the public's use for such activities as softball, frisbee and <br />football. Overall, the committee felt a compromise would be to reduce the days in request #2. <br /> <br />Motion was made by Vice-Chairperson Amundsen, seconded by Committee Member Selander to <br />recommend to City Council approving the Centennial Soccer Club's request for dedicated use of the <br />soccer fields at Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park as stated above in request #1, but recommend <br />amending the request in request #2 to the following days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday <br />with the hours as requested. All in favor. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> <br />1+ <br />