The Alameda Recreation and Parks Commission met on May 18, 2026, to receive updates on departmental projects, hear public comments regarding the potential Alameda Little League MOU, and discuss upcoming events and park improvements. The meeting included staff reports, commissioner communications, and a presentation on 2026 capital projects.
How do we give us a h do we give us a h on, so we're gonna give us a Probably 50 to 60 piles of poo uh in the past few months of trying to be a coach and a volunteer in that organization. So thank you again for what you do. I'm out of time and I look forward to working with you guys on trying to find a new home for our majors division for Alameda Little League. It's definitely needed. So thank you. Okay. Next speaker is Jay Ingram. Welcome, Speaker Ingram. And a former AGSA board member, um, want to give some higher level context. I agree with uh what Adam said about finding another location. I'm here to talk about the MOU that might come before you, or maybe it won't, maybe Alameda Little League will pull it back. Higher level context earlier this year, the two basketball, two half court basketball courts were combined into one basketball court. There's a lot of history behind why it was two half courts. I talked with the staff and was unsuccessful. So now and I was told that the Vipers are gonna show up and play there. So now this small park has potentially the Vipers, has the 10 to 12 year old Alameda Little League, and I think you'd have to check with the planning department, Del Monty developer neighbors across the street. Uh they use that park as their open space for their parkland dedication. So if it's got an exclusive view through his little league, it's not open space, it's not parkland dedicated fees. Uh December, we got a notice um about the this agreement that staff and Little League was working on for a community meeting. Uh we asked them to come back for another meeting. Sounded like it was a proposed uh change, but the it didn't really sound like it was proposed. It was sound like it was pretty much a done deal that had been moving forward pretty quickly. Um the changes that have happened in the park in the last nine months have greatly impacted the use, and I think you may be familiar with some of the feedback that the neighbors have provided. Um I will say it kind of follows up what Adam was saying. Little John hosted the little leaguers, the littlest guys, and they've been there for years, and it's been great. So hopefully they'll come back. The ten to twelve will find another place. Maybe the city can work with little league. Um, you know, from this field. They could have put something improvements like this out in a field at the Naval Air Station and worked with the city to have a more permanently permanent home. I just feel strongly in the negotiations that I've been involved with. I feel strongly that Alameda Little League didn't negotiate in good faith with uh the city. And um it didn't seem like going into it that this was going to be a one-year trial. Um I think there's been a little change in the sentiment from Little League that the 10 to 12 year olds this isn't a place, isn't the site for them, it's too small of a park. Uh let's see. If the MOU comes before you, that's what I came for tonight. I wasn't, I thought it was going to be on the agenda, but it's not. So I would ask that you would uh consider it and reach out to some of the neighborhood and the community in regards to some of the details of it because there's a lot of sentiment from the neighborhoods and how this has impacted um the neighbors. Um I feel that Alameda Little League should go through the field allocation process that has been through ARPD for a long time and not get exclusive use of a particular park, regardless of what the school district did to them and so on and so forth. Um let's see. I'll just wrap up by saying the neighborhood park known as Lojan Park is too small to support the 10 to 12 year olds. I think little league is kind of realize on that and their families. I would ask that uh when and if an MOU comes before the park and recreation commission, the recreation park commission, um, that you're not approve it. Um and go from there. I'll leave you with some pictures of the infrastructure that they kind of put in. Um, not kind of, they did, and then I will leave a picture for you, Justin, about the baller, just a reminder as the baller. So, thank you. Next speaker is Jill Ingram. Welcome, Speaker Ingram. Thank you.