The South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority might not have much to choose from when it comes to how to spend the $500,000 in the bank for fields — or the list could be overwhelming.

The committee responsible for making a recommendation to the JPA met July 16. The JPA is expected to make its decision at the July 27, 9am meeting at Lake Tahoe Airport. The report for the board is not done.

“I will be doing a summary of field needs, with my detail list as an informational attachment. Steve Noll will take some photos of current conditions on fields to show to the JPA,” John Upton, JPA staff member, told Lake Tahoe News. “Steve Morales gave us a breakdown of unfunded items on a list, but we still need clarity from LTUSD whether or not they want the entire list done.”

South Tahoe High School’s softball field has been the sticking point for the committee since it started meeting earlier this year. For Lake Tahoe Unified and the city to be compliant with federal and state laws more improvements need to be made to that field.

That has to happen before any other blade of grass gets touched, let alone other infrastructure improvements on the California side of the South Shore.

At the meeting next week the bicycle committee will also make its recommendations to the JPA board.

This is also the board’s annual meeting where all things financial are discussed.

— Kathryn Reed