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4 (C) Additional Items - Potentially Different Solutions: Wilshire Park Elementary School Field (School District Field): • There is a section of the Wilshire Park infield where the surface ‘gravel’ has begun to ‘wash away’, off the infield, and downhill. This section of ‘infield surface’ that is washing away is located along (under) the 3rd Base OOB line fencing, past the end of the concrete dugout slab towards the outfield. We would like to pursue a solution of a concrete (Jay Hartman preference) ‘curb’ buried in this area, running the length of the new fencing (appx. 20 ft long) that would hold the infield surface in place – in a manner almost identical to the asphalt ‘curb’ placed along the edge of the sidewalk on the 1st base side of Field C1 in Central Park a few years ago. Emerald Park (City Park Field): • There is fencing along the north boundary of Emerald Park. This fencing, defining the boundary of the Park, also should serve to stop as many errant thrown/foul batted balls as possible – from leaving the Park, and going into neighbors’ yards, requiring retrieval. The fencing lends itself into three ‘general areas’ for description, and related issues: 1. There are eight 10-foot sections of lower-height fencing at the east end of the fence row. Of these sections, two have a concrete ‘curb/wall-top’, and are located in an area behind the 1st base dugout, where fouled batted balls and overthrows easily can slip between the concrete ‘curbing’ (underneath) and the bottom of the fence. Of the balls that escape the east end of the park to the north by going under the fence, the majority escape through the opening between the fence and the concrete in these two sections. We would like to pursue a solution to fill this gap, either with a fence enhancement or a ‘top-of-the-concrete’ enhancement. This is a higher priority than point 2, below. 2. Of the eight 10-foot sections of lower-height fencing at the east end of the fence row (described in no. 1, above), there are six sections that do not currently have any kind of concrete ‘curbing’ underneath them. We would like to pursue a solution to fill this gap, especially if it is expedient to do so at the same time a solution is pursued for area 1 (described above), and/or area 3 (described below). An alternate consideration would be to replace all the short sections of fence at the east end of the fence row, with taller fence to match the west end of the fence row, and to provide a bottom-of-the-fence gap solution while doing so. This potential solution would also provide a solution for the very common occurrence of foul batted and less common overthrown balls that escape the Park to the north into neighbors’ yards by going over the existing short fencing at the east end of the fence row.