It was with a pang that your humble blogger read there will be a discussion Tuesday of "unresolved Youth Baseball League matters."
It was listed under "unfinished business" and gave Plaintalker the pip, remembering the many hours and endless recriminations and accusations of years past. If you put "baseball league" in the search box at the top of the blog, 20 posts devoted all or in part to the controversy come up. Take a look here for a post from 2012. Several city administrators and Public Works & Urban Development directors spent hours of their professional time dealing with this matter, apparently without resolution.
Recreation Superintendent Dave Wynn stepped down in 2012 and no new superintendent has been hired. A Recreation Commission was created but never activated. There is now a council Recreation Committee, but its role remains to be explained. One hopes this issue, whatever it is currently, will be resolved so that it does not end dominating council meeting time as in the past. It surfaced back in 2009 and sometimes brought large numbers of young players out to council meetings.
Now that the council only holds one agenda session and one regular meeting per month, it would be a shame if this limited time becomes taken up again by a battle among grownups over where, when and how young people can play baseball.
--Bernice
Forget about a recreation super, get the parents out of the way, keep the politicians out of site and let the children organize -- they're the ones in it for the fun, everyone else is just in the way.
ReplyDeleteI can almost guarantee it would be a much more productive and cost-efficient process, not to mention a valuable learning experience for the children.
It would also be helpful if Roland Mohammad would not walk on the Plainfield baseball field during a game and scream at everyone to get off the field.
ReplyDeleteSince the main sabateur has been removed finally from the scene, baseball should be alot more fun for the children of Plainfield and their parents. It's unfortunate what Roland Muhammad was reduced to which was to do dave wynn's bidding. Back in the day Roland was a very caring coach but now he should be banned from the fields because he can't be trusted to not be still taking outside direction to do things that will disrupt. The mayor's biggest fault was she ALLOWED THE CHAOS and even supported it. Now that she is running for another term, hopefully she will put the children first and ALLOW baseball to run in peace. And as far as so much time being taking up by the baseball saga. Those parents and organizers did exactly what was needed to right an obvious wrong. Kudos to the council that saw fit to hear them out. It's just a shame it took so long. It's time to play ball!
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is a sign of the times but for the first time since the Recreation upheaval on Monday Roland Muhammad quietly attended a Council meeting
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