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1st DISTRICT 17 50/70 CHAMPIONS! 

To contact MCNLL please send emails to mcnllbaseball@gmail.com 

Sailfish Park Summer Baseball Camps

Instructed by former MLB Player, Brook Fordyce

Baseball Camp for 6-13 Year olds

4 sessions during the summer.

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Here is an editorial regarding Tuscawilla Proposal. 

Martin County must solve a dilemma: Provide baseball fields for hundreds of Little League players who have been caught in the politics surrounding Sailfish Park in downtown Stuart.

The clock has been ticking on Sailfish Park — home of the Martin County North Little League — ever since the city of Stuart, which owns the park, proposed using part of the 7-acre-plus site for a government office complex.

To continue using the baseball fields, the parents of 600 Little League players have been maintaining and operating the facility. However, this task has proved to be too onerous.

"We can only sustain one more season (spring 2013) of extraordinary fundraising efforts and unprecedented hundreds of hours of volunteer time to make Sailfish Park work," said Steve Provines, president of the Martin County North Little League.

So what is the long-term solution?

Provines and his organization have crafted a proposal that merits serious consideration by county officials.

Under the proposal, the county would spend $2.6 million — from the remaining $5 million generated by the county's half-cent sales tax for parks and conservation land — to build four ball fields on a 4-acre site on Citrus Boulevard in Palm City Farms. The proposed Tuscawilla Baseball Quad Complex would cost about $41,000 annually to maintain. However, as Provines recently told commissioners, these maintenance costs would be covered by concessions, advertisements, player fees, travel team programs and tournaments.

Translation? There would be no maintenance and operating costs for county taxpayers.

In November 2006, county voters approved a half-cent sales tax that collected about $52 million for parks and conservation land. (The half-cent sales tax expired in December.) By statute, the county is required to use half the proceeds to acquire conservation land and the other half for parks. But here's the rub: These funds can only be used for capital projects, not for maintenance and operating costs.

The general consensus is that Martin County should make a capital investment in baseball fields. The sticking point is: How to pay for the annual maintenance and operating expenses?

The proposal by Provines and his organization adequately addresses this issue. And the concept of private organizations maintaining facilities built by tax dollars is nothing new. It often is a win-win concept.

Few of the proceeds from the sales tax have been used to create new ball fields. Two major projects — Indian RiverSide Park (including the Mansion at Tuckahoe in Jensen Beach) and Sailfish Splash Waterpark — each received $10 million of the $26 million available for parks. There is about $5 million remaining in the sales tax fund for parks.

It's time for Martin County to make a capital investment in baseball fields.

The proposed Tuscawilla Baseball Quad Complex sounds like a viable solution to an issue that must be resolved.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!  

LET YOUR COUNTY COMMISSIONER KNOW,

WE NEED NEW BALLFIELDS!

SAILFISH PARK CLOSED TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012 DUE TO BEE INFESTATION.

Steve Provines, President of MCNLL, submitted a detailed proposal for a new baseball complex during the public speaking portion of the Martin County Commissioners Meeting on Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

The proposed Tuscawilla Baseball Quad Complex would have four ball fields and be similar to the Vero Beach Sports Village complex.

Now, we need your help.    Email your Martin County Commissioners asking for them to vote for the Tuscawill Proposal.  

Use this link:  http://www.martin.fl.us/portal/page?_pageid=339,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&lnfi=&rgg=&pgg=344&sa=&sc=&emid=6672&c_name=Contact

Cut and paste the following message or create your own request: 

"Mr/Madam Commissioner, as a voter and taxpayer who lives in Martin County it is my request that the money raised from the ½ cent discretionary tax allotted to Parks and Recreation be used towards the proposed Tuscawilla quad baseball complex and subsequent remaining funds for other youth sports programs.   We strongly urge your consideration and vote.   Thank you."

NOW, MAKE SOME NOISE!!!

TELL YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, PUT IT ON FACEBOOK!

WE NEED NEW BALLFIELDS!

This divison, successfully piloted in MCNLL is referred to as 50-70 Division.  This new division is for players who are league-age 11-13 and features a pitching distance of 50 feet and base paths of 70 feet.  The new baseball division will be offered for the 2013 regular season. It will include postseason tournament opportunities, including a World Series.

The new baseball division will serve as a bridge between the current "Little League" size baseball field (46-foot pitching distance, 60-foot base paths) and a standard baseball diamond with 60.5-foot pitching and 90-foot base paths.

For additional information, please visit the website link above.