Private Club Gets Use of College Tennis Courts
About 60 members of a private club have been given nearly exclusive use of the Glendale Community College’s publicly owned tennis courts when tennis classes are not in session.
In a city where hundreds of tennis buffs often endure long waits to use 28 public courts, members of the Glendale College Foundation’s El Vaquero Racquet Club seldom have trouble finding room on the school’s six courts, which are not open to the public.
For the last 18 months, club members, who pay the foundation annual fees of $200, are issued keys to the courts, which they are allowed sole use of from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, as well as Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.
College President John A. Davitt defended the arrangement with the foundation, but Board of Trustees member Robert K. Holmes said that, in response to complaints, club members may have to start sharing the courts with the public, beginning this summer.
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