Parents and volunteers ask the board for urgent sports‑field repairs ahead of summer season

Recreation organizers asked the board to fund immediate safety work for active sports fields, reporting severe turf damage from grubs that has left holes and unstable playing surfaces. The group proposed aeration and prioritized work on the busiest diamond, with a separate request next year for dugout repairs; volunteers and a local business were expected to donate stone dust to reduce the town cost.

On the record, a representative said the group "would like to make a compromise and just ask that the work for the field flip across at the spring" so that active play remains safe through July. The board discussed using special project funds for the immediate repairs and asked staff to return with cost and timing estimates to include in final warrant considerations.