On Wed, June 8th, the Woodbury City Council passed a resolution changing their approach to permitting fields for in-house sports programs beginning in 2012. The City Council of Woodbury does not support having in-house sports (those that use outdoor fields) that follow a school draw. A series of meetings will be held with the respective associations in July to explain the new directive. The criteria for granting this exclusion and the City Council directive is attached. As we understand the policy - only one association will be granted Level III priority.
How does this potentially affect ERAA? If we are not granted Level III status, then we will fall under a lower Priority Level and will have to pay for field use and will have use of fields not claimed by the Level III program. If you value what we have created and believe this policy is unfair to those in the East Ridge community please voice your concerns to your city council member: http://www.ci.woodbury.mn.us/government/mayor-a-city-council. Additionally, the Cottage Grove Parks and Recreation Department is considering a mirror-image policy as well. To contact them go to http://www.cottage-grove.org/parks.htm
We welcome your comments and questions and look forward to working with you to continue to provide a place for our girls to play recreational softball with ERAA.
To reiterate our current state of ERAA Raptor Rec Softball:
We play cooperatively in a league with CGAA
We have not had an issue with scarcity of softball fields – in our two seasons of play the City of Woodbury has allocated the Bailey 3 and 4 fields to ERAA Raptor Rec – with remaining fields in Cottage Grove.
We have doubled in size and now have over 100 families in the Rec Softball program alone.
Feel free to contact ERAA Raptor Rec Softball Director Bruce Bialka at bbialka@comcast.net with comments and questions. Go Raptors!!
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