With many passionate soccer players living in Rincon Valley and Bennett Valley, there's a real love in our area for this beautiful game. However, our current city fields aren't keeping pace with our community's enthusiasm. We're home to over 2000 young soccer players, but the existing soccer fields are getting more use than the current maintenance can keep up with. Field availability is also a serious issue for us... With field closures throughout the winter and spring, it creates a disruption the active and healthy lifestyle of our kids. The installation of turf fields and lights at Galvin Park represents a necessary investment in our community that will provide more accessibility and longer play times each day.

Turf fields have the ability to withstand more intensive use than traditional grass fields. A study by the Sports Turf Managers Association found that turf fields can be played on 5 times more than natural grass fields because they don't need time to recover. Translating this into practice, it means our fields' availability, especially with the addition of lighting, could be increased by more than 2-4 hours daily for over half of the year and allow for continued use in the rainy season which typically closes fields down for 3-4 months.

Galvin park would be the perfect starting point for a turf transition. Not only does it have the most parking, but the existing baseball field and tennis court infrastructure means that adding additional lighting to the soccer fields would be minimally impactful on the parks electrical infrastructure and the impact to the surrounding homes.

Please sign the petition to request the critical upgrades necessary to serve our growing community of soccer enthusiasts. Support the conversion of the overused grass pitches at Galvin Park to durable, efficient turf fields complemented by lighting installations.

Petition Authored by Bryan Antonich and Kevin Walters.