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LITTLE CANADA PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 515 Little Canada Road / Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 Telephone: (651) 484 -2177 / Fax: (651) 484 -4538 JIM MORELAN, Director DON BOWMAN, Program Coordinator DEREK ANDERSON, Program Coordinator MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey and Members of the City Council FROM: Jim Morelan, Parks & Recreation Director DATE: August 22, 2000 RE: 2001 Fastpitch Season Over the past two seasons, the Parks & Recreation Department has been exploring different options to the current youth fastpitch softball program. As you know, I have expressed preference to coordinate this sport through an association rather than the Parks & Recreation Department. We have had numerous discussions and meetings with the Roseville Girls' Fastpitch Association (RGFA) in regard to how we could better serve and place more girls into this sport in the north suburban area. The result of these talks is a pending agreement to combine the two fastpitch programs under one association beginning next season. A meeting was held earlier this month with our Little Canada coaches from this past season to get their input. Their overall consensus was that the Parks and Recreation Department's proposal to combine Little Canada's program with RGFA would be in the best interest of the successful future of fastpitch in the Little Canada area. Having a greater overall number of players in a program will result in more players being able to participate in the sport and fewer players having to be cut. The combining of girls from these two programs should also be fairly well accepted given the social interaction of players as most of them will and do attend junior and senior high together. Several details will have to be worked out as time goes on. One of those involves the future name of the organization. I feel very strongly about community identity as do the present RGFA board members who are not only from Roseville, but also Falcon Heights, Shoreview, Arden Hills, and Maplewood. I have received assurance from the present RGFA Board that the organization will be renamed if we choose to participate with them. I expect a more "generic" name to be chosen that will not tend to favor any of the communities that make up the association. Another assurance I have received is that all of the girls who played through the Little Canada program, regardless of city of Page 12