****************PLEASE SIGN THE FOOTBALL PITCHES PETITION**************

Hi Folks

In an attempt to try and get either Milenium or IRM to restore/repair the football pitches at our resort would you mind signing an on line petition. It will takes just 10 seconds to do it and when we get enough names we can hand it to them maybe at the AGM.

Hopefully this sort of pressure will work. At the moment they are dangerous and an eyesore.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/condadopitches

Thanks in advance

Jay

Hi guys just had an email from Milenium saying that IRM have now agreed to allow Milenium to maintain and keep the pitches under their remit. This is fantastic news. Maybe they got wind of the petition (i doubt it) but either way who cares it good news for all of us!!

Jay

Well done Jay

Tony

Cheers Tony

But I don't think it was down to me mate. I think Sara and the garden presidents out there have probably had a good go at Milenium to push for IRM to sort em out and our little petition just happened to coincide. Still what ever happened and for what ever reason its a great result. My kids will be well pleased and happy kids is a happy old man!!

Jay

It all helps

We will all be happy

well done to all involved

Tony

Good News indeed BUT whats it going to cost you has any one told you what each owner will pay per month? Restoration, maintenance , irrigation, ? we will see if it is good news when the true cost's are revealed and will it really stop people kicking footballs around the garden's ? What about when we have quality pitches at great expense which outsiders will use for free.

Hi Mick

From reading your post, we detect a certain disquiet and concern about the potential cost of having the pitches maintained. Maybe we are being extremely naive in the way we're looking at it but the pitches have been there a long time now and we rightly or wrongly assumed that the community would have been responsible for them originally in one way or the other or indeed at somepoint in the future. It looks like from the Milenium statement that we are to receive the pitches "without cost" and we'll have to see what and if any costs there are in maintaining them. I have heard that the irriagation is the same as the golf course so no additonal cost there and if it means running the sit down mowers across them evey couple of weeks we are unlikely too see charges that would cause that much concern. You never know the groundsmen/contractors might see it in their best interests too keep the pitches maintained for us in the long term.......... Great expense may well be wide of the mark.

As for people using them for free.......what people do you mean and how do you know there won't be hire charges if outside teams wanted to come and play inside our gated resort? It could be a nice little earner.

What we can't afford as a community  is to have a child injure themselves on dangerous and uneven ground or infact slip on a discarded contraceptive!! They are in a terrible state now and make the resort look shabby and certainly not in keeping with what all of us bought in to in the first place. Having the pitches in  good playing condition may not eliminate the children playing football in the gardens but will certainly alleviate the problem and with gentle policing and encouragement they could be moved on to the more suitable areas provided for them. It's a positive step another in line with other recent positive steps. Once again I would love to thank all the presidents and Sara for all their hard work and surpport. You are really pushing Condado onto greater and greater things! Cheers Jay

Gr8  news if this means the football pitches are made playable again.  If we don't look after the few facilities we have we will lose them.  They can be an asset rather than an eyesore.