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TO: |
Mayor and Members of Council |
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FROM: |
Barbara M. Roth, Director, Recreation and Culture
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PREPARED BY: |
Glen Taylor, Manager, Community Centre Facilities |
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DATE OF MEETING: |
2004-June-30 |
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SUBJECT: |
Opening of Angus Glen Community Centre - Impact on
Public Skating |
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RECOMMENDATION:
That
the report titled Opening of Angus Glen Community Centre - Impact on Public Skating
be received as information.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this report is to follow up on the
request by Council at its meeting held on May 25, 2004, that staff report back on the impact of the two (2) new Angus Glen
skating rinks on the availability of public skating time within the Town.
BACKGROUND:
At its meeting held on May 25, 2004, Council
approved the ice allocation schedule for 2004-2005 and requested that staff report back on the impact of
the two (2) new Angus Glen skating rinks on the availability of public skating
time within the Town.
With the addition of the two new arenas at the
Angus Glen Community Centre, prime time ice availability increased 148 hours,
from 592 total hours in 2002-2003 to 740 total hours in the 2003-2004 ice season.
Public Skate availability increased by 76% from
21 hours to 37 hours, a total increase of 16 hours per week. Every session is now a standard two hours in
length. Poor performing sessions were
eliminated and popular, high demand sessions increased.
The Public Skate Policy prohibits cancellation of
public skate for any reason.
Attached as Appendix A is a chart indicating the
participation figures for the winters of 2002-2003 and 2003-2004. The data was calculated by obtaining the
revenue figures from the various facilities and dividing it by an average
admission fee of $3 to determine the approximate number of participants for the
year. This figure was then divided by
the number of sessions per year to provide an approximate average of how many
people participated in each session.
ATTACHMENTS:
APPENDIX A – Participant figures for the winters of 2002-2003 and
2003-2004
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Barbara
M. Roth, R.D.M.R. Director,
Recreation and Culture Services |
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Jim
Sales Commissioner
of Community and Fire Services |
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Opening on Public Skating.doc
