Our Parks and Rec Area manager received a complaint from someone at the apartments on the other side of the wall about the smell coming from the pile. One sentence: Marybeth, can you please take care of this? That's it!!! At least she said please. This is the 1st email she got last night. With pictures attached.
Angel,
This particular pile is the result of a hobo den that we removed. The stench could possibly be dead or decaying items in there. I believe this is a job for the police or environmental services. A non-profit Little League Baseball organization is ill equipped to handle this.
See the pictures below.
Followed by this one, this morning. Also sent to the mayor, the city council, the rec council, the SDPD, Environmental Services, the UT, the Turko files and everyone else I can think of as well as posted on Facebook and our website.
Good morning,
I'm sorry that the pile of dirt is smelly. However, this particular pile is the result of a hobo den that was removed from that section of the wall by our volunteers. It could possibly contain dead/decaying items. The police refused to do anything when called except to tell us to call environmental services, who put it back on us. At this point the path of least resistance is to " suck it up" and remove the shopping carts, Christmas trees, illegal dumping and hobo dens ourselves.
The pile is being slowly reduced as we can get the volunteers of MMWLL to remove it and put it in our dumpsters. The city and environmental services have consistently refused to help us with the illegal dumping and hobo removal. As we are an all volunteer league and a non profit we are doing our best to keep the complex safe for our players and environmentally sound. Any equipment you may see does not belong to us and is being donated by one of our parents place of employment at their convenience. Our volunteers make multiple trips to Miramar landfill a month to clean up illegal dumping at the cost of $36 per truckload in addition to their gas and time. To put it in perspective, it costs a maximum of $125 per player to play 20 games in the baseball season, including a uniform. We could pay for 3 players to play ball for the amount of money we spend just on trips to the dump per month.
Based on the items we see illegally dumped in the MMWLL dumpsters and the timing, most of the items seem to come from people moving from the apartments. Perhaps the apartment manager can help by checking what leaves the complex when people move out and what gets illegally dumped at our fields or providing a way for them to legally dispose of their unwanted items.
If anyone looked at the actual MMWLL fields instead of complaining about things we have no control over, they would see beautiful, green, properly mowed grass, infield soil that is raked and dragged and kids playing baseball. Our fields are some of the nicest in San Diego thanks to our hard working VOLUNTEERS. Teams that travel to our fields are always complimenting them.
Unless the city, Parks and Rec, Environmental Services or someone else decides to help us out and remove the smelly pile, it will continue to be deposited in our dumpster as dumpster space and dirt moving equipment become available. As a nonprofit Little League Baseball organization, we do not have the funds to do any more than we can do.
Sincerely,
Marybeth MacNaughton
President Mira Mesa West Little League
Sent from my corner office with my fancy title... Oh wait, I'm a volunteer
I am so sick of illegal dumping, hobos and Parks and Rec. At least the AC's (Asian Crips have stayed away lately) Don't mess with the Prez!
It is what it is...
Namaste
Wow , that's pretty screwed up! Glad you wrote that letter..It was a good one...Hope something works out for you
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