[Posted by Moderator]
From: Alan Margot <atmargot@yahoo.com>
Date: June 12, 2012 10:50:07 PM PDT
Subject: Tennis Courts on the chopping block!
Reply-To: Alan Margot <atmargot@yahoo.com>
Hi Everyone!
You
all may be aware of what is happening with the City Council regarding
the Holbrook-Palmer Parks tennis courts. Currently the City Council is
looking at three options, closing the courts due to the poor surface
conditions and the small number of keys sold, using the space for the
new library, or possibly resurfacing them.
This is a very crucial time. Shirley
Carlson, the President of the Holbrook-Palmer Foundation suggested that
we all attend the meeting on Wednesday, June 20th at 7pm at the
Atherton Town Hall on Ashfield Ave. Please
plan on joining us and bringing your family, friends and neighbors,
whether you own a key or not to support the courts in the park!
Best,
Alan Margot
Director of Tennis
Holbrook-Palmer Park
www.alanmargot-tennis.net
650.400.0464
All,
ReplyDeleteWhat to expect at the meeting next week:
From: Kathy McKeithen
To: charles marsala
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:01 PM
Charles,
Are you saying the the use of almost 50,000 square feet of space in the park by a limited few is a better use of park space than approximately 10,000 square feet of space for a park library?
Aren't the tennis courts right next to the train tracks? Why build a library there where it might infringe on future 'High Speed Rail' setbacks?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the reason so few keys are sold are it is WAY too much work to buy a key. If the park just bothered to send a letter to all key holders with the price of next years' key (a bill as it were) and allow key holders to mail in a check, I and others would just pay it. But no......to renew membership one has to go into the office, hope a person is there, hope they are receiving checks, hope they have a key for you.....then and only then do you have a key. Then the whole cycle repeats itself the next year. Life would be so much easier if they were combination locks and we were just emailed the new combination when we paid our bill.
Jenny, strikes me that this is the same problem that happened with Park rentals. The council allows it all to be terribly mismanaged, then they claim that it isn't bringing in any value, so they feel entitled to just change the rules or the access for the whole town, without any communication with residents or acknowledging responsibility. Currently, the town is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars from lost rentals, that previously supported park overhead. Seems like very bad fiscal management.
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