MBAF hopes new athletic redesign hits home run
Two months ago, the president of Mira Costa High School’s Baseball Booster Club, Brian McLoughlin, feared that a proposed redesign of the school’s athletic facilities could wipe out its baseball and softball programs. At a Sept. 15 meeting, the Manhattan Beach Athletic Foundation submitted a proposal to the Manhattan Beach Unified School District Board of Education that reduced the number of baseball fields from three to one and softball fields from two to one. The baseball community “raised Cain” in response to the suggestions, McLoughlin said. Last week, MBAF submitted a new proposal at the board’s meeting, this time leaving two fields each for baseball and softball. “The first proposal was done without any input from the interested parties,” McLoughlin said. “They forced our hand because they didn’t ask for our opinion. We rallied hard and got all kinds of signed lists and whatever we needed to get the process halted.” Changes to the athletic fields were necessitated by an overall campus redesign that is underway, funded by roughly $67.5 million in bonds from the passage of Measure BB in 2008. The bond money excludes the redesign of sports facilities. The original design…
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