The Region 13 Letter to the City Council can be found here.
Thank you for you support!
We wanted to give you an update regarding the proposed changes for access to La Cañada fields. As a recap, last month, the City of La Cañada Flintridge Parks and Recreation Commission sent a recommendation to the La Cañada City Council proposing age restrictions on La Cañada fields. This recommendation would limit players of non-baseball and non-softball sports (i.e., soccer) to players 10 and younger on the La Cañada High School JV, Varsity, and Oak Grove fields. This proposal effectively means that our players 11 and older would not have any access to La Cañada fields for practice at all.
The discussion about this at the October 15th City Council meeting was postponed and is on the agenda for today’s City Council meeting. Region 13 is sending representatives to speak as we have decided not to ask families to show up in force. We feel that would be counterproductive as it would be easier to discount our objections to this proposal.
For those of us who have sent in correspondence to the City Council, we appreciate you voicing your opinion. The feedback that we’ve received is that your opinion is best conveyed by your emails to the City Council.
We have again drafted a letter on behalf of Region 13.
If you would like to reconvey your opinions to the City Council, we ask that you please resend your communications. The La Cañada City Council contact information can be found here. We once again ask that any communication please align with AYSO values, is respectful, and expresses appreciation for the City’s support of our program, no matter your opinion about this specific proposal. I realize this gives you little time to respond, however we again learned of this late last week.
We believe that input from La Cañada residents will have the most impact, however Pasadena and Altadena residents we may need your help in the future to help with fields in Pasadena.
Thank you for helping to ensure that our kids may continue playing AYSO soccer.
Terry Takahashi,
AYSO Region 13 Commissioner