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1 Fence Project & Field Improvements – Wilshire Park & Emerald Park August 2019 Background: Recent errant batted (and thrown) balls on the Mixed-Use (Baseball & Softball) Fields at Wilshire Park and Emerald Park have led to a revived push to make some field improvements for the enhancement of Player & Spectator Safety, infield integrity & field access (at Wilshire Park), and neighbor-relations (Emerald Park). Comments in the below narrative are the consensus of Field Visits by Boosters Softball (SABSA) President Al Bates, Boosters Softball President Joe Wax, and Boosters Baseball/Softball Fields Coordinator Steve Munson, on August 5, 2019. Inherent in some of the comments regarding ‘Spectator Safety’ are elements of our discussions regarding the makeup of the ‘Spectators’ – which includes siblings younger than the (generally) 10U Players, including toddlers & infants, and non-attentive parents and grandparents. Readers may note that not all items listed below have been in all previous communications to all interested parties, but the field visit afforded an opportunity to bring (almost) all items of interest together in one document. An exception is a potential future enhancement to run electricity to the field(s), to provide for electric pitching machine use during practices -- that has been left for a future discussion. The below desired field improvements are presented in sections, segregated here for presentation into: (A) Initial items (as initiated by SABSA), (B) Additional items – Potentially Synergistic (which surfaced in recent discussions, and are likely to prove synergistic to pursue at the same time as the initial items), (C) Additional items - Potentially Different Solutions (resulting from discussions and the field visits, but are perhaps less likely to be addressed by the same materials and/or vendor), (D) Additional items – Unrelated Solutions (resulting from the field visits, and appearing most likely to be able to be addressed independently of the other items). This sectional segregation has been provided to enable prioritization (if necessary), segmentation into solutions which could be implemented independently of each other (if necessary or desirable), and potentially avoid “scope creep” which could delay implementation of any segment which could be pursued independently of the other segments.