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Staff proposes league model to ease high nonresident use of cricket fields
Summary
Interim director Haggard presented three options to address heavy nonresident use of Johns Creek cricket fields — staff-preferred is a seasonal league run by the Johns Creek Sports Association; alternatives include bringing rentals in-house or maintaining the current resident-percentage requirement and monitoring results.
City staff told the committee that cricket participation in Johns Creek has grown sharply and that current field rentals show a high share of nonresident participants, making it difficult for city residents to access fields at Shakerag and Cauley Creek.
"Cricket's been growing in Johns Creek and demands increase, and we have a high percentage of nonresident participants in our current program making it hard for our residents to access the fields at Shakerag and Cauley Creek," Haggard said. Staff presented three options: (1) have the Johns Creek Sports Association (JCSA) run cricket as a seasonal league modeled on other youth leagues (staff-preferred), (2) bring rentals in-house so the city rents fields directly, or (3) keep the current resident-minimum requirement in place for a few months to see if it works. Haggard said the current participation mix is about 40% or fewer Johns Creek residents and 60% or more nonresidents, and warned staff had been told the resident-percentage requirement may not be effective.
Committee members pressed how each option would prioritize residents, questioned whether staff capacity exists to manage in-house rentals, and expressed a preference among several members for the league model if JCSA can recruit and staff a cricket coordinator. Haggard said he plans to present the committee's support and recommendations to council.
