Ballfield - ready to play?

[Guest]

or not? I heard it still needs some repairs? Anyone with details?

[guest2]

It won't be ready for a long time, probably over a year. Poor job by contractor and no oversight by township.

[Guest]

[guest 3]

I was told that the recreation dept. wants it ripped out and rebuilt.

[Guest]

[Guest]

If it was a poor job by the contractor, then they have to fix it.

[Guest]

Once the field gets fixed or redone, It needs at least 2 whole growing seasons before you can play on it. So whatever they do with it, It probably will not be ready to be played on until 2012 or 2013 depending if the recreation department gets it fixed this year. It's a big waste if you ask me.

[Guest]

[landscaper]

That's standard on a ballfield, though most end up not doing this then having more costs incurred for re-seeding and work. It takes that long for the grass roots to strengthen. As the field is taking a different amount of traffic and use than a normal lawn.

[Guest]

While I have problems with the cost and time it took to build a ballfield, i think we needed a full sized ballfield. As for the statement that you can name 100 projects that should have been done before a ballfield, enlighten me, name them.

[Guest]

Considering the costs over the grant. - Dam repair, Liberty Way, some funding toward a library, just off the top of my head for where the money could have gone.

I support the need for a regulation field. However, bleachers, dugouts, fencing, etc... for me is what I question. I would have rather had benches for the players and called it a day at that.

The other thing is we started off with it being Babe Ruth without the TC and others understanding the liabilities and meanings a Babe Ruth field presented. Now that they understand it presented signifigant restrirctions it is now a regulation field. Good that they changed, but just shows lack of understanding in concept and planning.

[who?]

Who are the intended baseball players for such a ballfield in town?

How about a regulation-sized basketball court, football field, etc.?

They are nice to have.

[Guest]

So the TC has now abandoned their Babe Ruth Field being a Babe Ruth Fied and it is now just a "regulation field"?

[Waste]

The ball field for no one

[Guest]

It's been that way for a while now. Babe Ruth generated so much commotion that they realized it had to be a regulation only field. Making it a Babe Ruth field brought on liabilities that they were either unaware of or did not want people to find out about. A field itself would be minor in cost. It's the add ons that make it expensive and the location- moving of poles and lines, remediation for soil, fencing, dugouts, bleachers, etc...

If they made it a regulation field for LL, school, pick up games, etc...without the bells and whistles it would have been covered by the grant with money to spare.

[Guest]

So, the TC "sold" us the field as something that would be used by a few kids in town.....now we're talking about a ballfield for all?

Well, we can get the out-of-towners to come in on a Saturday and Sunday afternoon, yelling and screaming, and leaving their trash behind. Like they do when they use the soccer-fields, and they can't throw their water bottles and energy bar wrappers into the garbage can. I guess it's too far to walk to the garbage can.... Is that what we can look forward to?

Oh well, at least the 400+K will finally be used.