Dear city council,
I strongly oppose spending $85,000 on a pickleball study. Honestly speechless that I need to even write this email tbh. Voters don’t like to hear their tax dollars are being spent wasted like this. SMH
Here are some options to spend the money on:
1. Sound barriers around the Nealon and Kelly Park courts with a priority for Nealon Park
2. Re-striping the Nealon Courts as permanent courts at a minimum. Its much more important to make the Nealon courts permanent and marked specifically for PB. The Kelly park courts get much lower usage for either PB or tennis, so if you want to save costs, just make the Nealon courts dedicated to PB.
3. Establish a fund for maintenance and repair of the PB nets
4. Repair all the lights at Nealon tennis courts
5. Provide some benches outside the courts at Nealon so players have a place to sit off the courts while they wait to play (which is very often). Making players wait on the court impedes play and creates safety issues both for players and those waiting.
6. As Jim Schott mentioned in his email, the Hillview High School is contractually obligated to contribute $10K every 10 years and probably has not made any such contributions. So lets access those funds and apply them to the enhancements noted above.
7. If there are additional funds available, apply them to creating plans for new dedicated PB courts at Burgess Park for longer term additional court capacity.
Thank you,
JD Diepenbrock
1180 Orange Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025
