Source: usatodayhss.com --- Wednesday, October 18, 2017
With the Los Angeles Dodgers on the doorstep of the World Series, this should be a time for Baseball glory in Chavez Ravine. It is. Yet for Little Leaguers who play on city fields in nearby Bishop Canyon it’s anything but. They don’t even get to play Baseball anymore. As reported in this terrifically-reported column by the Los Angeles Times’ Steve Lopez, the Northeast Los Angeles Little League, which has fields that lie just up a hill from Dodger Stadium, has seen a construction project that was intended to give the facility a badly-needed facelift undergo glacial progress . The reasons behind the slow-to-stop progress is a massive backlog of civic funding and old fashioned bureaucracy. While other city funding initiatives have moved forward — notably significant raises for Department of Water and Power workers — the relatively modest budget needed to demolish and rebuild the Northeast Little League snack shack and the fields remains unanswered. That snack shack is the critical factor in the malaise that has befallen Northeast Little League. Sales of food from the shack are the primary revenue driver that allows the league to license the Little League name, rent the fields from the city and pay for things like insurance and uniforms. The league proceeded with a mobile food tent for one year and used extra funds to keep the league afloat in 2016, but was unable to pay the expenses needed in 2017. The result was a canceled season, ...
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