Invest in Honey Dew Elementary baseball fields
Invest in Honey Dew Elementary baseball fields
The Issue
Dear Renton LL Board of Directors,
Renton Little League is on the break of becoming big! We are one of the few leagues that has grown in District 7 in both baseball and softball. This has been through our great board of directors leadership and community outreach over the last 5 seasons, the additions of Fall ball, the winter training program, the re-launch of our fast pitch softball program, and our focus on coaches training. Those additions have been instrumental in reviving a once dying league to what it is today, however something is missing, a field that we as a league can call our primary home field. Honey Dew elementary a site where we play most of our games on the weekends, is in desperate need of an upgrade comparable to other leagues in district 7. Renton Little League has the capital sitting in the bank to purchase portable fences and pitchers mounds on two of our Little League baseball fields, without making any permanent damage in the grass, or violating our contract with the Renton School district. We all are supporters of RLL and feel that this is a must for the 2016 spring season, in order to improve the quality of play for our games especially the ones on the weekends.
Initiative: Purchase Portable pitchers mounds and Fences for Honey Dew Elementary, for fields #1 and #2 in time for the 2016 spring baseball season.
Refutation of common responses:
Common Responses to objections our proposal: The following are common objections to purchasing Portable pitchers mounds and portable fencing.
Response to: "Teams won't clean up the portable fences and there is no storage":
Currently two of our sister leagues, South Highline National and South Highline American Little Leagues, play with portable fences. South Highline Americans Fencing at Valley Ridge Park does not pierce the ground, it sits on top of the turf. SHALL has a rule that all teams must help clean up the fences this can be a rule we can adopt for next season. Following each game both teams simply round up the fencing after the last game and put them away in a shed. The fencing can be stored in the shed at Honey Dew Elementary. We can simply have a day were we as a league, clean up Honey Dew elementary, and remove all unusable materials, in order to store the fencing towards the front of the shed at Honey Dew elementary.
Response to: "Installing portable six inch mounds and portable fencing would violate our contract agreement with the Renton School District."
All improvements would NOT violate any agreement with the schools. Our current contract prevents us from making holes; the fencing shown in the link below does not pierce the ground in any way. The weight of the fence keeps it standing. The fencing showing in the link below is made from hard plastic (similar to valley ridge who uses turf). The mounds would be moved before and after every game off to the side off of the field.
Response to: "We should save up and by a complex instead"
Yes we agree we should save up! But we currently don't have millions of dollars or enough fundraising volunteers yet, or a partnership secured in order to make this a reality. In the meantime we should improve the fields, then if down the road we get the opportunity to build we can move our equipment to the site of the new complex.
Response to: "We don't have the money to by mounds and fences":
This claim is simply incorrect. Renton Little League has over $60,000 in cash sitting in the bank right now. In order to improve our league we would only need to purchase $10,183.63 into our league in order to make these improvements, this is clearly affordable for our league. The investment into the league would improve the quality of play immensely. Allow us to potentially host the Little League post-season tournaments in district 7, and allow all our players to be ready to play on an official LL diamond.
Response to: "It would make our field maintenance managers job much more difficult".
This claim is also incorrect, other than clearing space in the shed before the start of the 2016 season. Since all teams would be required after the game to cleanup the fencing together and coaches would move the mound off out of each field after every game. The role of the field manager would not change.
Response to: RLL would change there schedule and lose the rights to public fields:
This proposal has nothing to do with scheduling would not change in Renton Little league we are not changing our scheduling we are simply upgrading 2 of our fields that we use.
Response to: Doing this could jeopardize our agreement with the school district.
Nothing in this plan requires any sort of construction or digging, nor does it pierce any holes in the ground. Everything in this plan is portable and removable so that after baseball games teams the fields can look like they looked previously.
We thank you and we know you will make the right choice and invest in the future of RLL and improve the quality of Renton Little League!
Links:
Cost of Preposed Plan Sheet (PRICING INCLUDED) :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MOTwG6xytbmc2JWKNeYUQG5jIk9t1f6b6TCSD-5QugU/edit?usp=sharing
Purchased Materials with links:
6" Pitchers Mound:
Fencing for two fields:
http://www.theparkcatalog.com/portable-pvcfencing/white-fence-panel-with-yellow-safety-rail/151-1078
https://www.theparkcatalog.com/assets/media/pdf/151-1078.pdf
The Issue
Dear Renton LL Board of Directors,
Renton Little League is on the break of becoming big! We are one of the few leagues that has grown in District 7 in both baseball and softball. This has been through our great board of directors leadership and community outreach over the last 5 seasons, the additions of Fall ball, the winter training program, the re-launch of our fast pitch softball program, and our focus on coaches training. Those additions have been instrumental in reviving a once dying league to what it is today, however something is missing, a field that we as a league can call our primary home field. Honey Dew elementary a site where we play most of our games on the weekends, is in desperate need of an upgrade comparable to other leagues in district 7. Renton Little League has the capital sitting in the bank to purchase portable fences and pitchers mounds on two of our Little League baseball fields, without making any permanent damage in the grass, or violating our contract with the Renton School district. We all are supporters of RLL and feel that this is a must for the 2016 spring season, in order to improve the quality of play for our games especially the ones on the weekends.
Initiative: Purchase Portable pitchers mounds and Fences for Honey Dew Elementary, for fields #1 and #2 in time for the 2016 spring baseball season.
Refutation of common responses:
Common Responses to objections our proposal: The following are common objections to purchasing Portable pitchers mounds and portable fencing.
Response to: "Teams won't clean up the portable fences and there is no storage":
Currently two of our sister leagues, South Highline National and South Highline American Little Leagues, play with portable fences. South Highline Americans Fencing at Valley Ridge Park does not pierce the ground, it sits on top of the turf. SHALL has a rule that all teams must help clean up the fences this can be a rule we can adopt for next season. Following each game both teams simply round up the fencing after the last game and put them away in a shed. The fencing can be stored in the shed at Honey Dew Elementary. We can simply have a day were we as a league, clean up Honey Dew elementary, and remove all unusable materials, in order to store the fencing towards the front of the shed at Honey Dew elementary.
Response to: "Installing portable six inch mounds and portable fencing would violate our contract agreement with the Renton School District."
All improvements would NOT violate any agreement with the schools. Our current contract prevents us from making holes; the fencing shown in the link below does not pierce the ground in any way. The weight of the fence keeps it standing. The fencing showing in the link below is made from hard plastic (similar to valley ridge who uses turf). The mounds would be moved before and after every game off to the side off of the field.
Response to: "We should save up and by a complex instead"
Yes we agree we should save up! But we currently don't have millions of dollars or enough fundraising volunteers yet, or a partnership secured in order to make this a reality. In the meantime we should improve the fields, then if down the road we get the opportunity to build we can move our equipment to the site of the new complex.
Response to: "We don't have the money to by mounds and fences":
This claim is simply incorrect. Renton Little League has over $60,000 in cash sitting in the bank right now. In order to improve our league we would only need to purchase $10,183.63 into our league in order to make these improvements, this is clearly affordable for our league. The investment into the league would improve the quality of play immensely. Allow us to potentially host the Little League post-season tournaments in district 7, and allow all our players to be ready to play on an official LL diamond.
Response to: "It would make our field maintenance managers job much more difficult".
This claim is also incorrect, other than clearing space in the shed before the start of the 2016 season. Since all teams would be required after the game to cleanup the fencing together and coaches would move the mound off out of each field after every game. The role of the field manager would not change.
Response to: RLL would change there schedule and lose the rights to public fields:
This proposal has nothing to do with scheduling would not change in Renton Little league we are not changing our scheduling we are simply upgrading 2 of our fields that we use.
Response to: Doing this could jeopardize our agreement with the school district.
Nothing in this plan requires any sort of construction or digging, nor does it pierce any holes in the ground. Everything in this plan is portable and removable so that after baseball games teams the fields can look like they looked previously.
We thank you and we know you will make the right choice and invest in the future of RLL and improve the quality of Renton Little League!
Links:
Cost of Preposed Plan Sheet (PRICING INCLUDED) :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MOTwG6xytbmc2JWKNeYUQG5jIk9t1f6b6TCSD-5QugU/edit?usp=sharing
Purchased Materials with links:
6" Pitchers Mound:
Fencing for two fields:
http://www.theparkcatalog.com/portable-pvcfencing/white-fence-panel-with-yellow-safety-rail/151-1078
https://www.theparkcatalog.com/assets/media/pdf/151-1078.pdf
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Petition created on May 18, 2015