The Parks and Recreation staff is seeking the approval for the purchase of a scoreboard that will be placed within the Joe Orduño Park at the F1 Baseball Field. This scoreboard will be replacing the current scoreboard located on the baseball field that has been inactive for the past 10 years. Year after year, our baseball events have been growing and bringing very important and well-known baseball teams to our City. With an inactive scoreboard in our field, we are unable to provide our community with the full baseball experience they deserve since we are not able to portray the game scores on the scoreboard during the games. We believe a new scoreboard will be a great asset to our field and park since the staff is determined and working very hard on creating more baseball games and bring bigger baseball teams to our City. The Parks and Recreation Department is asking for this purchase to made out of the City Councils Contingency account. A budget transfer from the City Councils Contingency Account will be made to the Capital Outlay Equipment Account to be able to complete this purchase.

The Parks and Recreation staff has contacted various vendors and requested various quotes for this purchase and has agreed on purchasing the scoreboard from Penn Neon Sign Co., Inc. for the amount of $16,031.11. Based on the amount of this scoreboard, per the purchasing code §36.01 (D) three quotes have been obtained and the lowest bid pertains to Penn Neon Sign Co., Inc.  If purchase is approved, this scoreboard will be used during the upcoming Baseball Game on Friday, March 09, 2018 between the Tigres de Quintana Roo and Algodoneros de San Luis at the Joe Orduño Park.