The Vice President of Northeast Seattle Little League, Ted Foster, recently spoke out about the lucrative permit fees the league has to pay, which make up more than 60% of its operating budget, and have only resulted in fields that are now in “absolute complete disrepair.”

Jake Skorheim and Spike O’Neill, co-hosts of “ The Jake and Spike Show ” on KIRO Newsradio, condemned the city’s practice of consistently raising permit fees year after year while failing to provide children with a safe place to compete in organized athletics.

“The people who are showing up to play on the weekend, they go around, and parents are having to come and bring wheelbarrows and shovels to try and fix these problems,” Jake said. “These are not leagues that are making a ton of money. These are just people volu

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