A Public Outdoor Ice Rink This Winter Is Doable! Oshawa is fortunate to have residents with the enthusiasm and initiative to advance plans that can strengthen the community! I want to thank one in particular, Jackie Graham, for writing an excellent email and her efforts on continuing the topic of the City installing an outdoor ice rink!
I will post a link to her email encouraging a natural ice rink be installed for public skating in the City this winter. The City Clerk wrote that it will be on the City's INFO Package this Tuesday.
Unfortunately it didn't make it to Monday's Community Services Committee (CSC) meeting Agenda. It seems there were some contradictory signals among staff due to the motion made last month to refer Report CS-21-93 back to staff. That motion was about staff reporting back on determining the efficiency of a refrigerated ice rink being installed around an existing city facility to tap into its ice making equipment. A good motion, but since the resident's email was specifically about a NATURAL outdoor ice rink this Winter, imo her email should have been placed on tomorrow's CSC Agenda.
But not to worry, it is sure to come around soon, if not in a motion by a member of the CS Committee tomorrow, then at the November 15 CS Committee meeting!
Time to hear from more residents who support the plan for a natural outdoor rink on the city owned land east of the Delpark Home Centre south parking lot. (see map below),
Thank you for sending your emails to [email protected] and council at oshawa.ca...of course the more emails in support the better the chances of moving this forward in a more timely way!
It will be regrettable is this doesn't happen in Oshawa this winter! Especially now considering that tomorrow night it looks like Whitby Council will be approving TWO natural ice rinks -one in Peel Park near the centre of town and one in Brooklin, just south of Hwy 407 on the West side of Baldwin St. Good for Whitby.
The Whitby staff recommendation for the 2 natural rinks says "the cost of the pilot project be funded from sponsorship revenues, if available, and a draw of up-to $52,500 from the Long Term Finance reserve".
Well, the City of Oshawa has a Community Partnership Manager, in charge of sponsorship opportunities and the City already knows an ideal location for one, with ample parking, on a bus route, with washroom facilities nearby and level ground!
Time for Oshawa to put this in motion too!
I will post a link to her email encouraging a natural ice rink be installed for public skating in the City this winter. The City Clerk wrote that it will be on the City's INFO Package this Tuesday.
Unfortunately it didn't make it to Monday's Community Services Committee (CSC) meeting Agenda. It seems there were some contradictory signals among staff due to the motion made last month to refer Report CS-21-93 back to staff. That motion was about staff reporting back on determining the efficiency of a refrigerated ice rink being installed around an existing city facility to tap into its ice making equipment. A good motion, but since the resident's email was specifically about a NATURAL outdoor ice rink this Winter, imo her email should have been placed on tomorrow's CSC Agenda.
But not to worry, it is sure to come around soon, if not in a motion by a member of the CS Committee tomorrow, then at the November 15 CS Committee meeting!
Time to hear from more residents who support the plan for a natural outdoor rink on the city owned land east of the Delpark Home Centre south parking lot. (see map below),
Thank you for sending your emails to [email protected] and council at oshawa.ca...of course the more emails in support the better the chances of moving this forward in a more timely way!
It will be regrettable is this doesn't happen in Oshawa this winter! Especially now considering that tomorrow night it looks like Whitby Council will be approving TWO natural ice rinks -one in Peel Park near the centre of town and one in Brooklin, just south of Hwy 407 on the West side of Baldwin St. Good for Whitby.
The Whitby staff recommendation for the 2 natural rinks says "the cost of the pilot project be funded from sponsorship revenues, if available, and a draw of up-to $52,500 from the Long Term Finance reserve".
Well, the City of Oshawa has a Community Partnership Manager, in charge of sponsorship opportunities and the City already knows an ideal location for one, with ample parking, on a bus route, with washroom facilities nearby and level ground!
Time for Oshawa to put this in motion too!
