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Parents and board press district for plan after repeated complaints about unsafe soccer fields
Summary
Parents told the board the district's soccer and practice fields are unsafe and urged immediate work. Board members and operations staff described decades of deferred maintenance, reported underground/irrigation work underway, and asked for a comprehensive plan and budget for field repairs rather than a single new groundskeeper hire.
Parents and community members used public comment at the Oct. 27 Liberty Elementary governing board meeting to press the district for action on athletic fields they called unsafe.
"The field is unsafe, uneven, full of holes with bare, hard patches that are a recipe for twisted ankles and serious injury," parent Virginia Ferron told the board, describing conditions at Estrella Mountain and other campuses. She said she had repeatedly raised the issue…
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