From: Rick Alvarez
To: Mary Gourley
Subject: Polly Field
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2022 7:28:24 PM
We are residents and home owners in town of Sebsastopol.
My family moved here for Community. We have always shared in the positive. We walk to school and are thankful for our teachers. I have never complained that the roads are falling apart even though my property tax bill is over 20k per year.
I love how my children can run door to door and play with other kind children and experience children the way their parents did.
I was an athlete growing up and a Div 1 baseball player. I know the toll of becoming excellent at a game and love the pure inclusive way our little league provides baseball to our children. I don’t want to have my child driving to games. One of our most cherished experiences in town is my child walking to Ives park to play a game with his friends. This is how sports were meant to be for our kids.
This is the memory I hold. I have not come to you with photos of my child walking in fear to Callahan park where homeless are living in vans dumping human waste in his path or shooting up drugs and he tells me he is scared.
I have seen your drawing or a Magic Fairy Forrest that you want to construct to destroy my child’s baseball field. I ask you to remove yourself from fanciful delusional drawings and step into our real town and build and solve the issues of our homeless. They need care but the standard of law violation and safety hazards you are setting is a disrespect to all those that try to make the community better. I ask you to fix our failing infrastructure. I ask you to focus on the people living here and show accountability. I ask you to find your minds and our tax dollars and our votes focused on real issues and not ignoring them while you make sketches of Fairytale Forrest’s that steal my child’s baseball field and our tax dollars.
RICK ALVAREZ