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Memorial Field being treated like a private playground

by Julio Delgado
| April 6, 2025 12:00 AM

This question needs to be asked because the people of Whitefish deserve an answer. What municipality, city, park board and city attorney in their right mind would have a contract with a single entity, Glacier Twins Baseball Inc., that gives them sole control of one of our city parks, Memorial Field, paid for by the taxpayers of Whitefish?

This contract is for 25 years, 2002 to 2028, with the option of renewal for two more 15-year terms. That would give ownership of Memorial Field to the Twins for a period of 55 years. The agreement also allows the lessor Twins to sublet the facilities to whomever and for whatever at the amount of compensation arbitrarily deemed appropriate. 

The only reasonable conclusion and logical explanation for signing such an agreement would have to be that the city and the Whitefish School District felt and expected the Glacier Twins would continue, like in the past, to operate in good faith and the sharing of Memorial Field would continue as usual.  

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