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Residents ask Cibolo to reopen multi-event center; council members warn against seven-day access
Summary
Residents Peggy Simmick and a co-presenter urged the council to reopen the city's multi-event field for rentals. They said prior users kept the facility clean; council members cautioned that opening the field seven days a week led to overuse and the previous shutdown in March.
Peggy Simmick and a co-presenter urged the Cibolo City Council to allow reservations and re-open the city's multi-event field, which has been closed since early in the year. Simmick told council members that groups who used the field historically kept it clean and complied with contract terms, and she asked the council to give staff direction so the groups could resume renting the field.
"We just need a motion or direction from you sitting up there at the console to let us go ahead and start renting the fields," Simmick said, noting she and her co-presenter had no preference for opening seven days a week and would accept council guidance on scheduling.
Her co-presenter, identified in the transcript as Mr. Howard, said organizers could protect turf by rotating which portion of the field teams use so that no one area is worn out by repeated play.
Several council members acknowledged the demand from football and soccer teams but said past unrestricted, seven-day-a-week access led to continuous use and wear that prompted the earlier closure. One council member said the city must avoid returning to a seven-day schedule or it could require another shutdown to restore field quality. The transcript shows Councilmember Katie had a motion in mind, but no formal motion or vote is recorded in the provided excerpt.
No formal decision or vote on reopening terms was recorded in the excerpted transcript.
