Now, THAT's, what I'm talking about! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Asbury Park Little League field renovations to be meeting topic > By _Nancy Shields_ (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ⢠COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU ⢠> January 24, 2008 _> ASBURY PARK â" Last month's controversy over the Asbury Park Little League's > field renovations on the high school grounds flared up again at a Board of > Education meeting Wednesday night, and board member Garrett Giberson said today > he plans to settle the matter once and for all. > "We're having an emergency building and grounds meeting today at 4 p.m., and > I've advised attorneys and administrators that God help them if they don't > come prepared today,'' Giberson said. ""'ve also advised them that we will > resolve this matter even if we have to sit there until midnight.'' > > The latest flap is over an access agreement that Danny McKee, president of > the Little League, just learned about and does not want to sign. > > Giberson, chairman of the building and grounds committee, said he only > learned of the agreement Wednesday and that the language has to be changed or > tweaked to make it agreeable to the Little League and the school district. > > "We will make adjustments where they are allowed,'' Giberson said. "Everyone > will leave today happy.'' > > ''I've also advised the administration and board counsel that I do not want > to hear anymore about it,'' he said. "I don't want to hear the issue brought > up again unless there's a sink hole swallowing up the Little League field. > I've had it. I've had it.'' > > The Little League the past two years raised more than $200,000 to renovate > what had been a worn-out, flood-prone field but ran into problems with the > district administration when the league began such previously approved major > renovations as installing field lights and building dugouts and a small field > house. > > The district owns the field. The league shares it with the high school's > girl softball team. > > Giberson said the controversy over the access agreement was unnecessary > Wednesday night. > > "What aggravates me the most, not only as a board member but as a taxpayer > of the city, is that these administrators and attorneys get paid exorbitant > amounts of money, and they're not doing their job,'' he said. "That's waste. > That's waste to me.''
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