The board of trustees has scheduled a special meeting to once-and-for-all make some decisions about the Friends of Doubleday's proposal to sell personalized paving bricks to pay for an estimated $1.2 million in renovations to the field and establish a multi-million dollar endowment to care for the field in the future.

Mayor Wendell Tripp told board members during Monday night's meeting that "we must stop and resolve all the questions about this relationship."

The board was approached last year by the group with the idea of selling personalized paving bricks which would be laid in an apron around the entrance to the field.

The Friends of Doubleday is made up of members of the Legends of Baseball, a group of adults from across the country who come to play out baseball fantasies on the diamond of Doubleday Field. The group, or individual members of it, have made a number of donations to pay for improvements to the field in recent years, most notably, the new scoreboard.

Last month the mayor cast the tie-breaking vote when board members deadlocked over whether the Friends should be allowed to sell pavers to corporate sponsors. The vote was an apparent about-face from a decision made a few months earlier that stipulated no corporate pavers could be sold or business names printed on the pavers.

"One part of successful fund-raising is to appeal to corporate interests and having said that, I don't see how I can vote any other way," Tripp said as he cast the deciding vote last month. "But don't think I am completely happy."

Monday evening, Tripp described that vote as a "troubled" one and restated his reservations about the village entering into a relationship with a private organization.

One of the major problems is that there is still no contract between the village and the Friends of Doubleday setting down the terms and details of the relationship.

Trustee Carol Waller, an outspoken critic of the proposal, has raised questions about the plan and more than a year ago, Tripp told her the questions would be answered "when details of the contract were worked out."

Waller still doesn't have the answers she is after and the village has no contractual agreement with the Friends.

"Without question, these are honorable people. We're not saying they're shady people. They are unselfish, public-spirited individuals with strong feelings for Doubleday Field," Tripp told the trustees.

The mayor said he has become more worried about the relationship than he was six months or a year ago and that he doesn't think the board would be doing their job thoroughly if they didn't get the answers to their questions.

"The basic question is, do we continued this relationship," Tripp said.

Trustee Stuart Taugher, who is the chairman of the Doubleday Field Committee, said he believed it would be one of the worst things the board could for the taxpayers if they decide to back out of the relationship.

Tripp told the board the issue deserves a special meeting and set one for Friday, October 20, at 7 p.m. in the village meeting room.