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Mr . Weeks wished to mention a couple of points which were raised at the Council Meeting . He stated that both the Councilmen and Commission on many occasions had expressed concern about the degree to which Redwood City could provide facilities , leadership , supervision , and maintenance for use of facilities by non - residents . He went on to state that this is not to say that the soccer organizations consist totally of non - residents . He felt the East Redwood City area is an area of particular difficulty because of the lack of facilities and because it serves basically county areas . He reminded the Commission that on several occasions they had studied the possibility of facilities in this area , but met with the problem of limited funds and limited jurisdiction . He suggested that the problem of jurisdiction needed to be resolved in the future , and that the county and neighboring communities which are involved in East Redwood City must recognize their responsibilities there . Commissioner Weintraub suggested that perhaps a Commission committee could meet with the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission to discuss concerns with respect to the sharing of this responsibility . She further sug - gested that the Santa Clara elementary school site might be an area which could be utilized in the future . Mr . Weeks indicated that in all probability the Santa Clara site would be sold for development in the near future , and not available for recreation use . Mr . Weeks stated that he had attended a meeting of the San Mateo County Planning Group , who are currently studying the entire county -wide problem of open space , lack of facilities , etc . One of the things that was pointed out to this group is that the county must face up to the fact that they are in the urban recrea - tion business . They can not continue to concern themselves only with large recreation and regional facilities , but must share the burden of providing serv - ices to communities in these urban county areas . Mr . Weeks indicated that this is one of the issues that the county group would be studying . Discussion ensued as to whether Mr . Bustos had requested night - lighted facilities from either the cities of San Carlos or Menlo Park , the Sequoia Union High School District or from the County Parks and Recreation Department . Mr . Bustos stated that attempts have been made to secure facilites from Sequoia High School , but that maintenance schedules prevented the use of these fields at this time . He further stated that a majority of the people in his group are from the Willow area of Redwood City and that available facilities which are a great distance from that area would not be as suitable . Mr . Bustos indicated that he personally would be willing to serve on any committee which would include city and county officials in an attempt to remedy this problem . The question of the long soccer season was again raised for discussion and it was suggested that the Hidalgo schedule be adjusted to conform more closely with other seasonal sports . Mr . Bustos indicated that it would be extremely difficult to change the season , as the schedules are set by the Peninsula Soccer - 3 -