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Home My WebLink About07-02-2019 public comment - Russell7/2/2019 Yahoo Mail - FW: Subject: Santa Rosa Park Softball Are n 3C1ZM FW: Subject: Santa Rosa Park Softball Area. DO From: Mudgett, Melissa (mmudgett@slocity.org) S O CITY C ERK 1'r): russellrick559yahoo.com Cc: jhendricks@siocity.org; blynch@slocity.org; sstanwyck@slocity.org; klichtig@siocity.org; mcodron@slocity.org; J DHyfield@slocity.org; rogden@slocity.org; dgrigsby@slocity.org Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2015, 11:08 AM PDT Mr. Russell, Thank you for expressing your concerns about the dust impacts to your residence. As you may be aware, the City strives to provide quality recreational facilities for the enjoyment and health of our community. As such, the City remains committed to minimizing the impacts on our neighbors. Please let me share with you some internal process enhancements that have been implemented, as well as future maintenance projects, that may help minimize the dust impacts to your residence. The Public Works Parks Maintenance program (responsible for park maintenance) and the Parks and Recreation Department (responsible for park operations) continue to collaborate on approved park/field uses. A process has been developed to outline allowable uses at this field location (to minimize dust and errant balls). Tournament uses at this location will be temporarily reduced with scheduling at alternate locations. City staff continues to meet weekly to collaborate on these uses and resource needs. In addition, Parks Maintenance staff have adapted field maintenance and preparation activities to minimize the dust. Maintenance staff have altered the time when preparations are preformed to early in the morning when the wind is at its minimum and they continue to train and work with sports field experts regarding the proper amount of field moisture needed. (Too much moisture will "clog" the equipment; not enough moisture allows dust to raise). A future field maintenance project is planned for the late Fall in effort to minimize dust. The top loose surface dirt will be removed and a clay product incorporated to hold the moisture better. This work is anticipated for the Fall at the conclusion of the softball season. We welcome your feedback and feel that these enhancements will improve the experiences by both users and residents. Please contact us should you have any further questions on the matter. Sincerely, Melissa BCC: Council ALL 1/3 7/2/2019 Yahoo Mail - FW: Subject: Santa Rosa Park Softball Area. Melissa Mudgett Recreation Department & Public Art Program Manager Parks & Recreation Administration 1341 Nipomo Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3934 E mmudgett@slocity.org T 805.781.7296 y. org From: Rick Russell fmailto:rus�ellrick55 D aho m Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 4:39 PM To: Mejia, Anthony Cc: Hendricks, Jeff Subject: Subject: Santa Rosa Park Softball Area. Leaders, The softball dirt infield is a dust bowl. Large amounts of powdered dust is blown by the prevailing wind over my property when the dirt surface is prepped for a softball or hardball game. the dust gets into my house, and over my vehicles. My house screens are filthy. My wife runs a licensed child daycare at our home. We are directly east of third base. I have brought this issue to Parks Maintenance for assistance over the last three seasons. They are making an effort to water the infield prior to dragging a screen to smooth the infield. The plan is to replace the dirt surface. In the mean time, we still receive "at times" large amounts of dust. Even when the surface is prepped we still get dust. It depends on the wind. 90% of the time the infield gets prepped at 1030-1300. The wind picks up generally at 0900. This last Saturday / Sunday, there was a little league baseball marathon from 8am to10pm. The group in charge brought their own cart with a screen mesh to smooth the infield surface after each game. I spoke to the gentlemen grading the infield since the dust was so bad at my house I could "taste" the dirt in my mouth sitting in my own living room. My wife thought there was a fire in the area when she looked outside and thought the dust was smoke. The gentlemen stated they did not have access to water to wet the field. Today, I went to Park Maintenance and Parks & Recreation. I found out that there was communication issues on where this baseball marathon was to be played. I though I would pay a visit to SLO Unified School District. At SLO Unified School District, I had a positive conversation with Kelly Lee. Kelly oversees Taylor Field behind the gym. There are two ball fields. The infield surface is DG. The infield has screens that prevent balls from entering neighbors yards. They coordinate with City Parks & Recreation to reserve these ball fields. Kelly says they have a excellent relationship with their neighbors. This brings me to the last issue. Safety! Years ago, there was a screen setup to prevent balls from entering the neighbors yards. Since the pine trees got taller, they acted as a natural barrier and the screen was not maintained. Well, the trees got ill and were cut down. Now we have both hardballs and softballs flying into our yard from foul balls. I almost got hit in the head this last Sunday with a foul ball. The daycare kids play in the back yard during the week. I would hate to think what would happen if my family or a child got hit with a foul ball. I ask that games be postponed at Santa Rosa Softball Park till the dust is removed and replaced with DG or some other equivalent surface and a safety screen is in place to protect neighbors from a serious injury. Respectfully, 2/3 7/2/2019 Re: Santa Rosa Park From- Rick Russell (russellrick55@yahoo.com) To: abasden@slocity.org; hharmon@slocity.org Cc: jhendricks@slocity.org Date: Monday, October 8, 2018, 07:27 PM PDT Yahoo Mail - Re: Santa Rosa Park Hello Adam, I received a call from our Mayor. Heidi was concerned about the Santa Rosa Park softball infield situation. Heidi plans on reaching out to Jeff Hendricks and your team. I received another softball in our backyard. Total of six since August 21 st. Regards, Rick On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 10:41:18 AM PDT, Rick Russell <russellrick55@yahoo.com> wrote: Thanks Adam for your response. I understand there is some sort of city budget meeting in January. I don't yet know if the public is invited. On another note, I received two more softballs from last nights game. Total now 5 from August 21st! Regards, Rick Russell On Monday, September 24, 2018, 3:02:25 PM PDT, Basden, Adam <abasden@slocity.org> wrote: Hi Mr. Russell, Your email is not falling on deaf ears. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. We have been inundated with pressing issues this past week and I have been gathering information so we can come up with a plan to address your concerns at Santa Rosa Park. I am going to continue to do research and talk to the powers at be. I will be in contact with you in about a week. At that time, I feel that it would be good to meet out at the site to discuss options we have and make sure that we are on the same page. Thanks again for your patience, Adam Basden Parks Crew Coordinator Public Works Parks Maintenance 25 Prado Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7314 E abasden@slocity.org T 805.781.7025 C 805.431.0666 y.org 1/3 7/2/2019 Yahoo Mail - Re: Santa Rosa Park From: Rick Russell <russellrick55@yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2018 10:19 AM To: Basden, Adam <abasden@slocity.org> Subject: Re: Santa Rosa Park Adam, is my email falling on deaf ears?? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Rick Russell <russellrick55[a@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Adam, Update: I Spoke to the Mayor / City counsel meeting on August 21st. I expressed my thoughts about the horrendous dust problem from the softball infield and the softballs impacting my back yard. Since then I have collected 3 more softball from my back yard. I think its time for the city to fund the repairs to eliminate the dust problem and a screen to stop softballs from flying into my yard! I also spoke with City Engineer, Matt Horn. Matt has some good ideas to include using the park area for another form of recreation. I want to know what plans after this season is over, what corrective actions to better manage the softball area. What funding your team will receive to correct this ongoing problem. Regards, Rick Russell 805-748-7411 On Thursday, July 26, 2018, 7:15:19 PM PDT, Rick Russell <russellrick55@yahoo.com> wrote: Oh my! Softballs? 15 to 20 a season. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Basden, Adam <abasden@slocity.org> wrote: Mr. Russell, Thanks again for your recent feedback regarding the Santa Rosa Park Softball field. This Friday, we will applying 2 tons of field conditioner to the softball field at Santa Rosa Park. We will do our best to keep the dust down to a minimum. We will be scraping all of the loose powdery material in a pile and hauling it off site. The field conditioner will help the field retain moisture, provide an excellent playing surface and keep the dust down. We are gathering data on the foul ball issue. If you can provide me some information about the frequency of when these foul balls occur and the time of the day, that would be helpful. Feel free to contact me directly as we are the ones responsible for the maintenance of this facility. Thanks again for contacting us and we look forward to remedying this issue. Adam Basden Parks Crew Coordinator Public Works Parks Maintenance 25 Prado Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7314 E abasden@slocity.org T 805.781.7025 C 805.431.0666 slocily.org 2/3 7/2/2019 Santa Rosa Park From: Basden, Adam (abasden@siocity.org) To: russellrick55@yahoo.com Yahoo Mail - Santa Rosa Park Cc: dgrigsby@slocity.org; sstanwyck@slocity.org; jhendricks@slocity.org; mhorn@slocity.org Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018, 09:08 AM PDT Mr. Russell, Thanks again for your recent feedback regarding the Santa Rosa Park Softball field. This Friday, we will applying 2 tons of field conditioner to the softball field at Santa Rosa Park. We will do our best to keep the dust down to a minimum. We will be scraping all of the loose powdery material in a pile and hauling it off site. The field conditioner will help the field retain moisture, provide an excellent playing surface and keep the dust down. We are gathering data on the foul ball issue. If you can provide me some information about the frequency of when these foul balls occur and the time of the day, that would be helpful. Feel free to contact me directly as we are the ones responsible for the maintenance of this facility. Thanks again for contacting us and we look forward to remedying this issue. Adam Basden Parks Crew Coordinator Public Works Parks Maintenance 25 Prado Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7314 E abasden@slocity.org T 805.781.7025 C 805.431.0666 slocity.org 1/1