Asbury Park Little League field renovations to be meeting topic
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January 24, 2008
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ASBURY PARK — 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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