“I’ll probably scratch out that word and write over the top of it in red ink the word that they would like and send it back to them,” he said. Harvey said he “probably will” respond to the second RFP. The fairgrounds did not respond to a request for further comment before press time about the “technicality” that tanked the proposal. “What’s going on? What’s their timeline?”

“Here we’ve just had that facility closed for a full year, and we’ve had an RFP and they for some reason rejected it,” he said. Harvey also said he thought the fairgrounds “owed the public an extensive explanation” of their plan going forward. “It’s very strange and very weird, but they can do whatever they want, I guess,” he said. Harvey said he received an email a couple weeks later that said the proposal had been rejected because it did not properly acknowledge an addendum that was part of the request for proposal. Harvey said in an interview that he submitted his proposal in October and then interviewed with fairgrounds officials. “I think the intent is absolutely to move forward and to have horse operations resume at the Horsepark.” Joyce Rowland, vice president of the fair board. “It just seems to me that maybe there was no intent to award a contract on this RFP to start with,” he said to board members. That response was submitted by horse show organizer Dale Harvey, who said during public comment that he was rejected on a “one-word technicality” and was “extremely disappointed in the process.” The lone response that fairgrounds officials received from their first RFP had “a technicality that resulted in us having to deem it nonresponsive,” fairgrounds CEO Carlene Moore said.

A plan to implement approximately $3-4 million of wastewater management measures would allow it to reopen.Īfter considering a few options for how to reopen the venue, the fairgrounds board of directors decided several months ago to seek a lessee. The venue requires infrastructure updates to satisfy Regional Water Quality Control Board requirements. (AP) It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest. Located on 65 acres about three miles east of the Del Mar Fairgrounds at the corner of El Camino Real and Via de la Valle in the San Dieguito River Valley, Horsepark has been closed for almost one year. We’re honored to announce that Undomesticated has been awarded a 5,000 grant and 1,000 Desmond Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to study and promote responsible travel writing, removing it from the trappings of exploitation and exoticism. Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town. 16 board meeting that they will issue a new RFP by Thanksgiving. The search continues for a lessee to take over Del Mar Horsepark.Īfter an initial request for proposal (RFP) yielded one “nonresponsive” submission, Del Mar Fairgrounds officials announced during a Nov.

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