The
Director of Community Services said the Club Soccer League uses Sunflower School as its home
field and they have 232 soccer players and approximately 40% of those
players are non-Glendora residents.
Glendora FOOTBALL CLUBa professional
soccer program. Instruction from a
full time, professional coach
who will monitor their progress on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Cost
is approximately $1,200.00 per year. 232 players times $1,200.00 comes out
to about $278,400.00 of revenue per year.
On Sunday November 23, 2003, twelve games were
played at Sunflower School with well over 40% of the players non-Glendora
Residents. Six of the games did not have a Glendora resident as a team
member. Field #1 ScheduleField #2 ScheduleField SS Schedule
INDEPENDENT
TEAMS are encouraged to join a Club in their area to make
home field usage
easier. Coast Soccer
League
Los Angeles officials said Tuesday that they are investigating whether
private operators are reserving the city's limited public fields and then
renting them for profit.
Jon Kirk Mukri, head of the city's Recreation and Parks Department, said
he had launched an investigation because of community complaints shortly
after assuming the post. He said he also wanted city permits rewritten to
make it clear that the practice was illegal and would be punished.
Mukri said unscrupulous operators could be exploiting the parks to run a
lucrative business. "They are now charging a couple of hundred [dollars],"
he said. "We don't support this. It's immoral."
He also said he would ensure that city employees were not colluding in any
inappropriate use of fields.
"We have a moral obligation to police this," he said. "We can talk about
not having enough parks, but if our parks are being used inappropriately,
that makes a bad situation worse."
Reyes' proposal for an audit will be reviewed by a council committee.
The councilman also called for a review of fees that residents of other
cities pay to use Los Angeles' parks and to enroll in the city's sports
programs and classes.
Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who co-signed Reyes' motion with Perry, said she
had heard rumors that some neighboring cities had curtailed their own
classes because so many of their children were taking advantage of Los
Angeles' subsidized programs.
"We're in tough budget times," she said. "They're not sharing in our pain,
so why should they share in our benefits?"
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