Glendora Football "Soccer" Club & GYS
How a sports park can impact a residential neighborhood!   Hear it  See it 
 

Glendora FOOTBALL CLUB a professional youth soccer program. Instruction from a full time, professional coach who will monitor their progress on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Play on a private field cost is approximately $1,200.00 per year.
 

Mr. Henderson 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. Some math: Cost about $1,200.00 year per player. 232 players times $1,200.00 comes out to about $278.400.00.

Private Sports Leagues Tear Up School Fields -- Why Should Taxpayers Pay. Why are these private operations given a free ride at taxpayer expense? Our responsibility as a taxpayers, is to help pay for public education, not private sports leagues. Who is paying for the maintenance of Sunflower Sports Park that a private club is using exclusively. Glendora or the School District?

Glendora Youth Soccer 2004 Fees: $90.00 for first child, $75.00 for second child and $60.00 for each additional child per family. The Glendora Youth Soccer program has 1,800 boys and girls participating according to Mr, Henderson. Some math, using an average of $75.00 per player. 1,800 times $75.00 comes out to $135,000.00. Does anything come back to the city for maintenance? Interesting Note: in 2003 registration was $70.00 what caused it to increase by $20.00 in a single year
From the GYS Web site "Sponsored by Glendora Community Services Department, Jim Henderson, Director"

Sports and Neighborhood Relations do we have any, other cities do!

 

Mayor Pro Tem Conway suggested that perhaps the City cannot host all the sports activities and he asked at what point does the City say the sports program is too large.
Glendora Soccer Adult League
The leagues season are divided into Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall and run year round.  Max roster of 18 per team.
About 18 teams  in the COED division.
The Spring season will begin in May. Games will be Saturdays under the lights from 4:00-10:00 p.m. at Louie Pompei Sports Park.

November 19, 2002 City Council Meeting
 Motion was made by Councilmember Hamlow and seconded by Councilmember Herman to instruct staff to prepare a resolution that implements the percent recovery for items shown in Table 3 of the Cost of Services Study, subject to increasing cost recovery for Adult Sports from 33% to 50% and subject to implementing 100% cost recovery for lights. The motion carried 4-1 as follows: AYES: Conway, Clifford, Hamlow, Herman; NOES: Mouw; ABSENT: None.

Note: Glendora park lighting energy cost over $1,000.000.00 in five years. A sports park cost about $300.00 per day to water and increasing on July of 2004.
 

Noise is Pollution "Excessive noise affects us all. It creates a heightened level of anxiety, distress, and an unfriendly environment throughout our neighborhoods".

N. I. M. B. Y.  Would you want this in your neighborhood?

CARDIFF BY THE SEA, CA -- Last Saturday was particularly bad. It was truly a Saturday from hell. It was a three day weekend and the beginning of a new soccer program . One irate person in an oversized SUV knocked over three of the trash cans with green waste and spilled the contents all over the street. Hear the sounds of a Sports Park
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO CA -- Youth soccer officials got tough with unruly adults after a violent brawl during an under 14 tournament. The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) banned one parent and two soccer coaches for life and disbanded two boys soccer teams following the worst brawl in its 35-year history.  About 30 adults were involved in a post-match melee in the southern California town of San Juan Capistrano last month after a tournament game between the Palmdale Eagles and the Chino Chiefs. Three adults were arrested, one parent needed treatment for a bite, another suffered cuts and a swollen eye and others reported being hit on the head with umbrellas and being threatened by a man swinging a metal rod.  The cause of the melee after the San Juan Capistrano game was unclear but reports from the sheriff's department at the time said violence broke out after an assistant coach for the winning Chino team allegedly tried to pick a fight with a Palmdale player.

Additional Cases of Violence In Youth Sports

 



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