Edgewood's recreational baseball and softball program has been having some growing pains since the new Edgewood High School opened last year and Joe Nance, president of the rec program, died last year.
Don Myers, the program's new president, told the Edgewood Community Council members at their meeting Wednesday the new baseball fields are too big, and the program has trouble accessing bathrooms.
He said when the new baseball diamonds are 90 feet long, making them unusable for younger students.
"None of the boys can play baseball. They're too big," he said, adding the program used to have its own concession stand with bathrooms.
The program has to fill out a permit to have someone open the school bathrooms during the week, he said. Myers also said they were not allowed to bring in portable toilets.
"We're basically at the mercy of the board of education," he said.
"We have two brand new schools in Edgewood that we should all be proud of," he said. "In what way should I guide my program now that we're back on the fields of the school?"
Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie advised him to speak with Board of Education member Bob Frisch, Schools Superintendent Robert Tomback, who was at the meeting, and even Arden McClune, the county's director of parks and recreation.
"In high school, they only use two fields, so what are the other fields for? They're for the community," Myers said.
Myers, who took over the program in October 2011, also said he is trying to get a softball field named in honor of Nance.
Guthrie agreed with that idea.
"I've been trying to get that field named and we've been having some problems," he said. "I've been carrying this proclamation for over a year in my car, as soon as we get this field named."
Also at the Edgewood meeting, Horace Tittle, an assistant to state Del. Glen Glass, said Glass would be supporting the hotel tax in Harford County, which other members of the county's delegation were less supportive of in previous years.
Art Stuempfle said he is compiling a book on Edgewood, to be produced by Arcadia Publishing, which publishes local history books with about 150 to 200 pictures.