Sunday Mail

We received this note in response to one of our postings about the proposed Padua Sports Park in Northeast Claremont:

wanted to comment on your park piece from last week......when I lived there, I was on the AYSO board, and later a club soccer coach....at first, I was a true believer.....

then I found out about the lighting restriction on the residents in the north....When they put the lights at Mountain View, there would be nights when no teams would be on the fields, and still the lights would be on....

There is plenty of field space, the problem is the scheduling....all the sports orgs rarely communicate with each other......I had brought this up (the scheduling and communication), but nobody wanted to deal with it....

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We also received a note commenting on an announcement in Friday's Claremont City Manager Update. Allison Martinez, as he note points out, is the daughter of Randy Prout, the insurance salesman whose business address had been used by the Resident United for Claremont PAC in 2003 and who was a financial supporter of the 2005 Preserve Claremont campaign.

Allison's prior job in the Claremont Human Services Department had been a special events coordinator, a job that including working on the city's 4th of July parade, which might explain why Randy and his wife were honored in the parade a few years ago.

Our reader writes:

What do you get when you add....

A marginally talented SPECIAL EVENTS planner (with no degree)

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A new, highly paid position in a dysfunctional department (which requires a degree)

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Parent's in the 400 (she's Randy Prout's daughter)

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A City Manager in the 400's pocket???

I know!...

"Alison Martinez is being promoted to human services supervisor and will be assigned to the Youth and Family Services Division."

But, you didn't hear that from me.

Well, we don't know about the bit about the City Manager being in the Claremont 400's pocket, nor are we sure that a college degree is required for the supervisor's job Allison has been given. If the degree is indeed required, then we would wonder if any strings were pulled to get her the position. It is Claremont, after all, and membership in 400 does have its privileges.