Parks and Recreation Meeting Tonight

IT'S PARKS AND REC TIME AGAIN!
For all you parks fans out there, tonight the Costa Mesa Parks and Recreation Commission will meet again in City Council Chambers beginning at 6:00 p.m.  You can read the agenda HERE.

INTERESTING STUFF
Chairman Byron de Arakal will lead the group through some tree removals and two very important other issues.

OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN
Item 9c on the agenda is the Open Space Master Plan for Parks and Recreation, HERE, and the staff is looking for direction from the commission.  This document normally is reviewed and updated periodically - usually in 5-7 year intervals.  It's past time for this one to get some lovin' care.

FAIRVIEW PARK ANNUAL REPORT
The second one is Item 9d,  the Fairview Park Annual Report, HERE.  I expect more than one or two people will show up to address this issue since the park has been the point of so much controversy in recent months.  One item on the "goals" section, number 6, is "Complete the design of approved parking lot lighting" - that $650,000 expenditure for lights in a dawn-to-dusk park.

SO MANY THINGS TO DISCUSS
So, grab a quick dinner and head on over to City Hall to attend this meeting.  There will be time for public comments on anything related to the Parks and Recreation Commissions scope of responsibility - like more lighted fields, problems with present lighted fields, actual need for more fields, who gets priority on fields, the Joint Use Agreement with the Newport Mesa Unified School District, and on and on and on.  Exercise your right to speak on these issues.  Unlike the mayor, Chairman de Arakal will let you speak your piece...