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This page provides essential at-the-field information for athletic field users, including responsibilities, field care guidelines, equipment rules, contact numbers for urgent issues, and procedures for scheduling conflicts and reporting problems.
Jump to: User’s Responsibility (General, Field Care, Equipment, Bannerwood, Synthetic Turf Fields), City’s Responsibility, King County’s Responsibility, Scheduling Conflicts, Other Problems
Urgent Calls
Parks Scheduling Office
- Office: 425-452-6914 (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.)
- After-Hours: 425-452-2864 (leave a message)
- Field Closure Line: 425-452-4860
- Safety Issues: 425-452-6855
Marymoor Scheduling Office
- Field Closure Line: Statusfy App, statusfy.com, or call 206-205-6722
- Field Lights Line: 206-225-8936
User’s Responsibility
General
- It is the group’s responsibility to make sure that all coaches, participants, spectators, opponents, and referees/umpires are aware of the guidelines.
- All field areas (including dugouts, scorers’ booths, athletic field, and surrounding area) must be in same or better state than at arrival. Trash must be in trash cans or taken with renter if receptacles are full. Failure to follow policy may result in cleaning fine after use.
- Overflow parking and/or crowd control plans may be requested by the City. Cars improperly parked at City parks may be cited by the Police Department.
- Vendors and Trainers must be pre-approved by the Parks Scheduling Office.
- Dogs and pets are not allowed on athletic fields.
- Fireworks, motorized model cars, and launching of aircraft or rockets are prohibited.
Field Care
- Please do not throw or hit into cyclone fencing or backstops.
- Stay off outfield foul lines during batting practice and warm-ups.
- Field modifications are not allowed without prior approval from Parks Scheduling Office. This includes storage boxes and temporary fencing.
- Young level youth baseball organizations are responsible for their own field lining and lining supplies on dirt infields, especially when multiple games are scheduled on the same day.
- Users must not use vehicles to perform field maintenance.
- Users performing their own maintenance must stay three feet from the edge of the outfield grass. Do not pull the drag mat into the edge of the grass. Always rake dirt towards the infield.
- Use cones only for modified field marking. Painting lines, staking, or other forms of lasting field marking is prohibited.
Equipment
- Please provide your own soccer nets and lacrosse goals.
- Bases may not be moved without prior authorization. Little Leagues are responsible for providing their own breakaway bases. When using breakaway bases, the Little League is required to return the city-provided bases to the field after use. If breakaway bases are left on infields, they will be removed.
- Pitching rubbers may not be moved or removed. Please contact the Parks Scheduling Office if the pitching rubber is not at the correct distance.
- Users are not permitted to move soccer goals.
- Lacrosse goals are not provided by the City of Bellevue. User-provided lacrosse goals should not be used for other sports. After use, the goals should be returned to their storage area and secured with a cable lock.
Field-Specific Notes
Bannerwood
- Bannerwood Facility Staff will open/close the stadium. Please make sure that reserved timeslots include warm-up/set-up.
- Bannerwood Facility Staff will adjust light programming based on conditions. Please work with them if changes are needed.
- Only Service Animals are allowed inside the ballpark, including the field, dugouts, AND bleachers. Emotional-support animals and pets are not allowed.
- Sunflower seeds aren't allowed on the field or in the dugout. If present elsewhere, place all shells into the garbage.
- Metal cleats are prohibited on the infield synthetic turf, except the pitcher's mound.
- Use of the Concession Stand must be pre-approved with the Parks Scheduling Office.
Fields with Synthetic Turf
- Only water is allowed on the fields. No food or other beverages are allowed.
- Metal cleats are prohibited on synthetic fields.
- Snow on the fields cannot be removed/moved for field use. Once melted, the field crew will redistribute the rubber pellets before the fields are safe for use.
- Note: Snow sculptures and forts built on the fields delay the melting process.
City's Responsibility
- Provide bases and soccer goals. (On grass fields, soccer goals are usually installed in late August.)
- Perform general maintenance to ensure safety for all uses.
- Provide a fresh drag at the start of the day when games are scheduled, when possible.
- Perform afternoon maintenance for tournaments, when possible.
King County's Responsibility
The County is responsible for all general and routine clean-up, maintenance, repairs and field preparation for Marymoor fields 6, 7, and 8, based on the field schedule submitted by the City.
Scheduling Conflicts
To minimize scheduling conflicts at the fields, please have a copy of your current Permit (AKA Confirmation) at the field.
If both teams have a Permit, the Permit with the most current date shall be valid.
If neither team has a Permit at the field, the reservation cannot be enforced. The group that arrived first has priority.
Other Problems
- For City fields, contact the Bellevue Parks Department. For URGENT issues (like lights or Bannerwood lock-out), leave a message at 425-452-2864. For URGENT SAFETY ISSUES, call Bellevue Parks Resource Management Division 425-452-6855.
- At Marymoor, for lights call 206-225-8936 or other problems, call 206-477-7275.
- For all fields, contact the Parks Scheduling Office the next day, so that necessary follow-up can take place quickly.
- Submit an Add/Update Field Reservations Spreadsheet if asking for credit for unusable field time or lights due to problems at the field. Form must be received no later than the first of the following month or the 5th of the month for end-of-the-month impacts.