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Soccer Summit Planned with Mayor, County, School District to turf Eastview
Posted on Wednesday, May 15 @ 12:36:29 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR Daily Mirror. By John F. Bailey. May 15, 2002, 12:30 PM EDT:The White Plains Youth Soccer League under the leadership of Ken Schlinger, President of the league, Carlos Mejia, and Lee Smith have arranged a "Soccer Summit" which is planned to take place this week, to explore how the city, the White Plains School District and Westchester County might cooperate to revitalize the Eastview Middle School athletic fields with a synthetic surface.
NEW LOOK FOR CITY'S WORST FIELDS? The Eastview atheletic fields shown in February will be considered for synthetic turf by a city, county, school district "Soccer Summit" this week.
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The meeting, arranged by the soccer league officials, is expected to take place this week, according to Arne Abramowitz, Commissioner of Recreation and Parks. Abramowitz said that Mr. Schlinger , Mr. Smith and Mr. Mejia had taken the case for synthetic turf to Westchester County, theWhite Plains City School District and the city, and all three parties were agreeable to discuss how the resources of the three jurisdictions could combine to “turf” the fields. He did not know at the time, who would be representing the county or the school district at the meeting.
Abramowitz said that the Commissioner of Public Works, Joseph Nicoletti, had estimated the cost of synthetic turf for the track oval and the baseball/softball/soccer field at Eastview as being between $1.5 million and $2 million. Previous city estimates for “turfing” the oval only ran about $300,000.
Mayor Delfino said Monday evening that the White Plains Youth Soccer League had advised him that they thought the three entities: city, school district and county might split the cost of turfing the heavily used fields between the three. The Mayor said it was his understanding the County was focused on the soccer field at Saxon Woods at this time, but the Soccer League was optimistic that the county would help with the funding.
Note: UPDATED! Sources advise WPCNR that this "Soccer Summit" is now planned for Wednesday, March 22. It did not come together last week.
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