Do you really want to see all 3 phases of the tennis complex completed? We have been too complacent as a tennis community. We have failed to understand how things get done in government! The wrong message will be sent to the city if we have a poor turnout at this meeting! The wrong message will be sent if we fail to elect one of our own to the council! At this meeting we will take names of SETTA members who wish to accompany me to the weekly City Council meetings to speak on behalf of the tennis community and the necessity of completing the tennis complex. A constant stream of volunteers speaking weekly before city council will move things forward. Apathy will seal our fate.
So what can you do?
1. Forward this email to all your friends and talk to them about attending the meeting and about voting (even people outside of the city can attend, no need to identify your address)
2. Sign up to come with me before the city council every Tuesday beginning April 19th. Ron Wesbrooks has already volunteered to speak with me before council. I will not speak if I am alone!
3. Come to the meeting prepared to ask questions respectfully from the list below or from your own list.
4. Get all your friends to vote for our candidate and make sure you vote as well.
5. Call the candidates yourself and ask them to be at the event…and tell them about the beautiful facilities you see at cities our size when you travel! Tell them that we are second from the bottom in cities our size in what we offer to our tennis community. Tell them how great it would be to host events in our city!
Below, I am listing city council members you may call and possible questions which may spark discussion at the forum.
Regards,
Claude Guidroz
Questions:
1. Are you aware of the fact the fact that SETTA first approached the city 5 years about our growing tennis needs as a city?
2. Have you read the research booklet which was created and presented to the city manager on March 2nd, 2007, detailing the town hall meetings which were held with the tennis community and presenting the recommendations to the city?
3. Have you seen the results of the research which shows that only Mesquite Texas provides fewer centralized courts than we do in Beaumont?
4. Are you aware of the fact cities our size like Corpus Christi and Waco, Tx host numerous sectionals events for USTA which attract cities from throughout Texas?
5. Did you know that members of our board have worked on every phase of the tennis complex design, but we were not consulted when the bids for phase 1, (the 8 court addition) were given to a contractor who had never built a tennis complex?
6. Are you aware that phase 2 was intended to begin in 2011 and phase 3 in 2013, but we still have not completed phase 1 after over 2 years?
7. Did you know that we have over 170 kids enrolled in USTA sponsored Junior team tennis competition, but we can’t have them play at the city complex?
8. In the event that the 80 million dollars in royalties cannot be diverted from city airport use, would you be in favor of the possibility of building the entire complex on city airport property so that our community could have a magnetic facility which would attract other events while meeting our local needs?
9. Can you please explain why a jogging track was approved at Babes Zaharias while such a track is already part of the Municipal Complex master plan for the tennis complex?
Candidates you can call:
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