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Right now, all the Tatlock Community has left are a few slim hours each evening of peace and tranquility, and the fact that it is up for debate whether we are entitled to that is shocking. 

…the engagement plan Community Programs developed has some fatal flaws. Tonight I am going to identify two of them

Before asking taxpayers to put up $1.6 million and members of your community to sacrifice $11.4 million of value in their homes, we deserve a more compelling argument than…we would like to move second, third, and fourth grade girls field hockey practice from 7 PM to an earlier time.

As the conversations progressed from 2018 to today, no one who will be directly impacted day in and day out by the proposed lights has been included in the discussions in any meaningful way.  They have not been placed on subcommittees, consulted in an advisory capacity, or had a chance to work collaboratively and bring some perspective to the designers of this project. 

This council’s view is “we’re not going to honor the old agreement, but we’ll make the Tatlock Community a new one, oh and by the way we can change it at any time we like.”  Once the genie is out of the bottle, you cannot put it back in.  There seems to be an overarching lack of respect for the Tatlock Community as the plans for the fields continuously change.

I strongly urge you to remove consideration of lights at Tatlock fields from the Capital Budget because what you have now is a haphazard and incomplete plan, that is barely transparent and could have disastrous effects on people’s quality of life and the suburban environment of our city.