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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After the City of Fresno announced it would sever ties with Central Valley Community Sports Foundation erstwhile it terminated the nonprofit's lease of Granite Park, Terance Frazier, the main of the sports park's operator, sent a connection that reads successful part:
Central Valley Community Sports Foundation (CVCSF) is disappointed to person received a Three-Day Notice of Termination of the Ground Lease for Granite Park, aft having invested implicit $2.5 cardinal successful improvements, operated a palmy parkland that serves implicit 300,000 visitors a year, provided galore twelvemonth circular jobs to section residents and created a abstraction for galore escaped assemblage and taste events to conscionable the needs of our divers and underserved community.
The City fails to enactment CVCSF, a non-profit, has been diligent successful providing the needed services and installation successful the past 9 years with minimal enactment and contempt being perpetually attacked with mendacious claims by the city," helium said. "We person confirmed with PG&E the relationship is existent arsenic of today. Rather than effort to resoluteness disagreements successful bully religion oregon find a way guardant for a continued concern arsenic it has done with different organizations oregon entities, similar the Fresno Grizzlies, the City continues to retaliate and hinder our non-profit’s quality to supply a overmuch needed assets to our community.
Terance Frazier.Frazier besides sent the following screenshot from PG&E:
Wednesday, the City of Fresno notified Frazier of the termination with a three-day announcement to vacate.
The metropolis claims it is owed to respective breaches of CVCSF's 25-year lease signed backmost successful 2015.
Based connected the 30-page default missive from Fresno City Manager Georgeanne White sent backmost successful May, the metropolis has accused the relation of owing implicit $1.3 cardinal for much than PG&E, but besides backmost rent and interest, h2o and sewage, and gross agreed to beryllium shared with the metropolis if amounted to implicit $60,000.
Fresno supplies $150,000 annually to the parkland for staffing and maintenance.
White besides claims $2.7 cardinal successful promised improvements, similar added hoops courts, volleyball, and formation volleyball courts, and a caller restaurant, ne'er happened.
Beyond the dollars and cents, Central Valley Community Sports Foundation is besides accused of nonaccomplishment to get metropolis support for concessions sold, the gathering of definite additions similar shot fields, oregon others exceeding costs of $10,000, and nonaccomplishment to support facilities the metropolis says person posed wellness and information risk, oregon codification violations.
As for the aboriginal of Granite Park, successful the agelong term: uncertainty. In the abbreviated term, the metropolis promises to grant agreements for shot and shot events. How precisely it would play retired implicit the years is yet to beryllium determined.
For much clarification connected the adjacent steps from CVCSF, Frazier says they volition clasp a property league connected Friday with much information.
