DEPARTMENT: Parks & Recreation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Xavier D. Urrutia
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 4
SUBJECT:
License Agreement with SPORTi at Pearsall Park
SUMMARY:
This Ordinance authorizes the negotiation and execution of a license agreement with SPORTi for soccer fields at Pearsall Park located in Council District 4 for a term of three (3) years with two one-year (1) renewals; no City funds are associated with this action.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Pearsall Park was dedicated as parkland in 1999 and sits upon a former landfill. Since then through land acquisitions, the park has grown to 500 acres and is currently under construction as part of the voter approved 2012 Bond. Through the Bond, $7.5 million was appropriated for improvements to Pearsall Park consistent with the park's master plan and input from the community which includes amenities such as Family Fun and Fitness Challenge Zones, pavilions, a new playground facility, splash-pad, and skate-park. This transformation of Pearsall Park into the next regional destination will be complete in the Summer of 2016.
Concurrent to implementation of the Pearsall Park 2012 Bond project, the City was contacted by the Free Trade Alliance on behalf of a member in their International Business Development Center, SPORTi, a for profit company. SPORTi has a soccer model whose mission is one of social responsibility to educate people in sports as a habit for the integral development of families in a safe, healthy, and fun environment. SPORTi submitted a development concept to the Parks and Recreation Department focused on the use of existing soccer fields at the park since improvements to these amenities were not being addressed through the 2012 Bond. At no cost to the City, the concept plan will add lighting and irrigation improvements to the soccer fields and other onsite amenities such as spectator seating in order to program and activate this immediate area of the...
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