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The Mansfield City Council held a work session and regular meeting on Monday, October 12, 2026. The meeting began at 1:00 PM with a work session covering updates on Fields at Station 63, a review of legislative priorities for the 90th Texas Legislative Session, and discussion of the consent agenda. The Council recessed into executive session before reconvening at 6:02 PM for the regular business session, which ran until adjournment at 8:27 PM. Major actions included a resolution supporting at-large elections for the MISD Board of Trustees, approval of a first reading for a major mixed-use zoning case ("The Canals"), and adoption of a new ordinance regulating commercial drone delivery infrastructure.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I want to call the meeting of Monday, October 12th, 2026 to order at one PM. And we will begin our work session with Fields at Station 63. Time for the update. Thank you, Mayor and Council, Matt Young, executive director of community services. Yes, sir. Today we are kicking off a series of the next few months of updates of all of our public private partnerships. And again, starting with fields at Station 63. Before I turn over to our speaker, just to let you know, also in the audience, we have Josh Keene, the director of venue operations with Rev Entertainment, and Steve Goris, Senior Vice President of Kemper Sports. But today, uh Leslie Deeson, our general manager at Philzation 63 is going to guide you through a very brief update of what's going on. All right. I'll get him later. Hello. Hello, ma'am, ma'am. Thank you for your time today, made mayor and city council members. As um he said, my name is Leslie Deeson, and I am the general manager for fields at Station 63, represent representing Kemper Sports, and in partnership with the City of Mansfield. So thank you for your time today. Today I'm going to do a brief overview and really focus on our community programs, tournaments, and facility investment. So our first year has really exceeded our expectations. Uh with our new Pro Shop as our traffic or foot traffic grows. And we're increasing our sponsorship. We do have a training membership that is now branching out through our whole park at this time. So it's having our customers go to our restaurants and our pro shop. So it's all inclusive for our players. We also, as I said, are growing our leagues for our youth and our adults for baseball and softball. And of course, we have our in-house events. That it's not just sports, we have our community events, and we'll get into that further later on in the slides. But even today, we have in and out uh hamburgers that are putting on a tournament today in the facility or at the park, I should say. So programming is expanding to date, and as you will see, we have 520 youth base baseball and softball players. Um we have many, many teams uh for our adult leagues, our membership is growing, it will be growing much further, and we've up to 3K and community event participants, and same with our field and cage rentals, and we really feel that we're not just a sports center, we are building a community hub for everyone to come to and have our players and families create memories. And speaking of that, even tomorrow, we'll have our Miracle League have an open house, and that's going to be brought brought to us from our Miracle League DFW. Now, speaking of our community, um, I'm not sure if how many of you are aware of all the things that we've hosted. We've had our touch a truck, we've had our toddler rave, which is a very fun event for our little ones. We've had our first Freedom Fest, and then our phone party. And coming up on October 22nd, we'll have our boo bash carnival, and in December, we'll have our Breakfast with Santa and Santa Station 63. And now our labor of love, our miracle league, which is such a beautiful field. I don't know how many of you have had the opportunity to come see it, but um the ribbon cutting was such a success. Um we have this um event coming up tomorrow, and then the Parks and Rec will be hosting an event each month, November through February. Uh, have inviting uh sorry, inviting our youth to come out and utilize the field until the official leagues start in March. We also are utilizing this for our Reps membership for our T ball leagues and for our birthdays, and even a blitzball tournament. So we're really looking at it to be something that is growing for the future. As we spoke of earlier, our tournaments have been the driver this year. We have uh 40 tournaments to date at this time. We had our A-rod invitational, which had 37 teams that brought in teams from across the country. We also had our perfect game 12U invitational brought in 36 teams from across the country again, and we were just awarded the champions of economic impact from our sports destination management. We really feel that fields at station 63 is a positive economic impact for travel and um hospitality. And starting tomorrow, keeping up with our commitment to the facility, we'll have our maintenance starting from October 13th through the 19th of maintenance and repair of all of our fields, and this will not impact any of our programming that is going on at this time.