Of all the email spam I send you guys, please take this one seriously. The PTSA has created an online Petition to help fix our fields that are in terrible condition. It will not work without your help.
Read's Pete's letter below and, if you agree, please take action and sign the Petition as soon as possible . We are hoping to get 500 signatures to take to Peters Township Parks & Rec.
Forward this email to every parent today. We need a strong showing to make a statement. This is very important for the soccer association.
--Tony
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From: Peter Chiste <pmchiste@hotmail.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: Urgent: Soccer Fields Improvement Petition
October 18, 2007
PTSA Coaches,
Over the course of the last few weeks, the soccer fields have deteriorated again. We believe the problem to be caused largely due to inadequate field maintenance by Peters Township, not overuse by our soccer players. Although PTSA had expected that the fields were potentially going to receive some intensive reformation over the summer, particularly the Peterswood Soccer Complex (Peterswood Park Field #5), we do not believe that occurred. During the last year we have experienced cut electrical lines to the irrigation system at Elm Grove leaving it without water for much of the summer, disruption to the water service at Venetia Park since the baseball concession building and restrooms were built there leaving it without water to the present, irrigation system turn-off at Rees Park for a period of three weeks during the September / October drought leaving our best field turf dry and root starved, inadequate top-dressing at Peterswood Soccer Complex and lack of water-wheel use there for most of the summer (when the field was closed for two months)leaving it in a continuously sparse condition, and Old Grasshopper Field lacking any water source for irrigation. Compounding the irrigation and poor soil conditions at the fields was a severe grub infestation problem that mainifested at Elm Grove and Venetia Park.
I believe the Peters Township Parks & Recreation Maintenance Department and the Peters Township Parks & Recreation Director each have good intentions regarding field maintenance. However, the poor field conditions PTSA experiences year after year speaks for itself ... the fields are substandard and poorly maintained. Despite my many efforts to draw focus to the issue, I believe that until a majority of PTSA's Members speak out and voice their disatisfaction with the fields' situation, my voice alone will continue to be but a whisper in the wind. To amplify that whisper to a volume that gets heard, a petition has been crafted by Tony Belfiore (U8 Boys Commissioner), Gary Lang (Vice President), and me. The petition is attached. I ask that you send an email to every family you touch as a PTSA Coach with a request that they log-on to the petition site ASAP and to support the petition. Our goal is to achieve 500 signatures. If that is achieved, I believe it will represent a collective level of dissatisfaction with the Peters Township fields, by a significant number of Peters Township taxpayers, that the Petition's call to action cannot be ignored by those in responsible positions within Peters Township.
To make the petition process easy and accessible by as many PTSA Members as possible, we have placed it online at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ptsa-field-quality-petition.
Below are instructions on how to access the petition, "sign it", and leave comments.
Thank you for giving the Petition your consideration and when you send your requests to your Players' families, be sure to include the following instructions:
- Go to the PTSA Field Quality Petition web site.
- Under the PTSA Icon, click letter and view whole petition to review our proposal.
- Enter your Name, Address and Email. If you like, enter a personal comment for more impact.
- Uncheck the boxes under Get Free alerts and hit the sign button.
More than one family member can sign the petition. All they need to do is:
- Click on the petition link again.
- Click the logout link, and follow the above instructions again.
Sincerely,
Pete Chiste
President, Peters Township Soccer Association
pmchiste@hotmail.com
724-969-1070 h
412-327-8538 c
p.s. For those that may be offended by other petitions and messages (a lot of "save the environment" and miscellaneous other causes) that you may see on the "thepetitionsite", I apologize in advance. PTSA does not endorse those other petitions and messages and I ask you to look past them and toward the ease of use for the online PTSA Field Petition that the site provides.
