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March 21, 2007 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members FROM: Kim Stephan DATE: February 8, 2007 SUBJECT: Request from Centennial Soccer Club for Use of Lauric LaMotte Memorial Park Soccer Fields for the 2007 Season The Centennial Soccer Club has requested the use of the fields at Laurie LaMottc Memorial Park in a letter dated January 3, 2007. There are two parts to the request: I. Requesting two fields, 25 x 40 yard open spaces, located east of the parking lot and bound by the bike path, for the U2 - U8 age group, for games only. This request is for Monday - Friday from 4 p.m. to dusk, April 28 through June 30, 2007. The Centennial Soccer Club will set up goals and manage a reservation system to assign teams to specific dates and times for games. 2. Requesting one field, 70 x 60 yard open space, located south of tbe skate park, for the UII - UI2 age group, for practice only. This request is for Monday - Friday 3:00 p.m. to dusk, Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to dusk, April I through October 29,2007. The Centennial Soccer Club will set up goals and manage a reservation system to assign teams to specific dates and times for practices. Council Member Lee mentioned that when the football season starts in August there will be no place for the local youth teams to practice if all the fields arc committed to the Centennial Soccer Club every day of the week from April through October. The committec's concern with this was that the football association has not asked for time or fields and the Soccer Club has. It was suggested the football representatives be made aware they should be requesting time. In discussing this request however. some of the committee membcrs felt the fields should have some time Icft open for the public's use for such activities as softball. frisbee and football. Overall. the committee felt a compromise would be to reduce the days in request #2. Motion was made by Vice-Chairperson Amundsen, seconded by Committee Member Selander to recommend to Cit). Council approving the Centennial Soccer Club's request for dedicated use of the soccer fields at Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park as stated above in request #1, but recommend amending the request in request #2 to the following days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with the hours as requested. All in favor. Motion carried unanimously.