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■ V <br />j <br />3/ 5C 4NNAPCU:S L>N£ M^^iN6.APC•■S *A.ssE:C*i <br />OMCNE 6^2: 559-4000 <br />THtcX 797871 <br />May 2, 1991 <br />- 2BQl <br />Alexander Vongries <br />4051 Highwood Road <br />Mound, MN 55364 <br />Dear Alexander; <br />I have been asked by the Orono Little League .Association to clariiy the intent on my <br />motion made for the Bederwood Park Little League baseball field construction during the <br />term of my office as Mayor in the year of 1990. I would like to make it perfectly clear to <br />you that, as an individual member of the Park Commission and to the Commission itself, <br />my intent was to offer the Orono Little League Association as much cooperation as <br />possible. The motion’s intent was to offer them 4 nights of use during the first year, and <br />S nights of use during the second year, and that the use of Bederwood Park for the Little <br />League baseball field should be for a period of time at least through the 1992 season. <br />There seems to be some confusion as to my intent in the number of years, but I can assure <br />you I meant to give them use of our park facility through the 1993 season, but hopefully, <br />as long as* a little league exists in Orono. Hopefully, this clarifies my intent of the motion <br />made some year and a half ago, but if you have any further questions concerning this <br />matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. <br />As an ex-dty official, citizen of Orono, and a father of 4 little league players, I would like <br />to add my feelings about the continuing controversy over the use of a portion of <br />Bederwood Park for the youth of our city. If I am not mistaken, Bederwood Park is <br />approximately 8 acres of land dedicated for the use of our citizens. We are extremely <br />fortunate in Orono that we have a park system for use by our citizens and its intent is to <br />be used by all of the citizens, and not for the advantage of a few surrounding homeowners. <br />The fine job that the Park Commission has done over the years is being somewhat <br />taznished by the treatment of our city's youth through the manipulation of time and <br />schedules of the Little League field at Bederwood Park. 1 ask that you individually, on a <br />regtilar basis, visit Bederwood Park and the little League field and nocfce a number of <br />things: 1) the condition of the Little League ' in that it is an excellent, wrJJ '•ared for, <br />and planne . facility 2) that the Little Leagu only occupies 1/4 of the park area 3) <br />if you monitor the use of the other 3/4 of tf , you will find the usage to be minimal, <br />at best.