Baseball is a sport that unites kids and families from diverse socioeconomic groups. The price the city is charging for field leasing is far more expensive (more than double) than county fields in the area. The city has also more than doubled the hourly usage rate over the past for years, and 9.5x over the past 9 years. Unfortunately, this has drastically increased the cost for nonprofit leagues and makes the higher registration cost a financial barrier for many families. Also, the city does very little if any maintenance or improvements to the fields. The city fields are among the worst maintained fields in the valley.