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2. Improving most sites to Ascot standards would require either shutting the <br /> whole site down for the summer, or phasing the work in a way that would <br /> eliminate one of two soccer fields at one period of the year, and the <br /> softball /youth baseball field at another period. Such phasing would spill <br /> over into the school year since the period from construction start to playable <br /> turf (when seeded) is not less than 5 months. <br /> 3. In selecting a 4 -J site the City and other athletic organizers give up <br /> some authority in decisions about field maintenance and scheduling. <br /> Offsetting that drawback is the possibility that some of the 4 -J bond monies <br /> that are targeting improvement of athletic facilities might be reprogrammed to <br /> target improving sites that would be mutually beneficial. Each site would <br /> have to be analyzed as to how many games each agency would expect to derive. <br /> 4. While no quantifying study has been made, it is the sense of staff that it <br /> is cost effective to add the "Cambridge Drainage" feature to poor draining <br /> soils. It both extends the playing season and allows perhaps three times as <br /> many games per week without excessive turf wear. Adding drainage to the <br /> better draining soils north of the river would allow an increase in the number <br /> of games that could be played, but only by a factor of perhaps a half. <br /> 5. Moving the games that used to play under the lights at Kincaid Park to <br /> Ascot would not cause lighting to run beyond 9:30 p.m. in the fall season. <br /> One field, which could be the west field (with diamond closest to parking <br /> area) would be needed until as late as 11:00 p.m.) in the spring and summer. <br /> 4 <br />