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Ice Oval Gets Reduced Grant

By 250 News

Monday, October 01, 2007 08:02 PM

            

The Outdoor Ice Oval  will  get $7,000 for  water service to the  new oval site, west of the Kin Centres.

The request is much lower than the $50 thousand dollars the Ice Oval Society had requested just a few weeks ago.

( photo of the old ice oval which is being replaced, photo Opinion250 archive)

At that time, there were questions raised about the sale of the excess gravel from the site.  In a detailed report to Council, Leisure Services Tom Madden outlines how the Society had sought bids from several companies and entered into agreements with two of the bidders,  IDL and Sharp Construction.    It was estimated there were 26, 700 cubic metres of gravel to be extracted .  The Ice Oval Society would get $2 per cubic metre of gravel sold.  The new revenue estimate indicates the Ice Oval Society had received  $47,600 for the  gravel sales.

The previous and revised budget estimates are as follows:

Expenses:

Item
Sept 10th
Revised
Engineering
$7,000.
$  4,500.
Excavation
Covered
Included in net cash payment
Fence (estimate)
$30 -$50 thousand estimate
$36,500
Water (estimate)
$5 -  7,000.  (max)
$  7,000.
Electrical (estimate)
$12- 20,000 (max)
$36,500
Landscaping (2008)
$65,000.
$65,000
Signs
$2,000.
$   2,000
TOTAL
$121,000 - $151,000
$151,000

Revenue:           

Source
Sept 10th Amount
Revised
OIOS
$  5,000
$  5,000
Fundraising
Not included in Sept 10th budget
$31,400
Gravel Sale Surplus
$25,000 (low est.)
$47,600
Direct Access Grant
(apply  Nov 2007)
$60,000
$60,000
(apply Nov 2007)
Capital Gant From City of Prince George
(estimate for water, electrical and fencing)
$50,000
$7,000.
Total
$140,000
$151,000

The report does not answer the questions about the source of the fundraising dollars which were not mentioned during  the  presentation on  September 10th   or about who gave the Leisure Services department the authority to grant approval for the Ice Oval Society to proceed with the project.


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Comments

Comment Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on October 2 2007 8:01 AM
Shhh!
Comment Posted by: Moses on October 2 2007 8:25 AM
The question remains:

If the Ice Oval Society received $2 per cubic metre 'royalty' on the 24,000 metres of gravel, who got the benefit of the true value of that material (between $10 and $20 a metre)?

Did CN get it for free (to the chagrin of local aggregate suppliers)?

Or did the Society's 'partners' sell the (taxpayer-owner) gravel for their own benefit.

Either way, where is Supply Services (Purchasing) in all of this?

How did a quarter of a million bucks worth of tax-payer owned assets get assigned to a (well-meaning) special interest group, without any apparent paperwork?

What else does Supply Services give away to their well-placed friends?
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on October 2 2007 11:34 AM
How? How much? Who? Hmmm? Too bad this wasn't an election year. City hall and its minders wouldn't let this or other kinds of "alleged" crap happen in an election year. Oh, by the way, sure hope a lot of people don't come down with election amnesia about these issues next November.
Comment Posted by: diplomat on October 2 2007 3:26 PM
"...about these issues next November." Maybe not. The meeting of the BC Municipalities recently passed a motion to have the government change the length of term from 3 years to 4 years.

As if 3 years of *torture* wasn't long enough!

Cheers!
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on October 2 2007 9:54 PM
A recall method would be nice. Only if it worked. i.e. Not too many hoops to jump through to get rid of incompetent ninnies on city council.