ECA Review 2018-11-22

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S t e t t l e r M o o n l i g h t M a d n e S S
Town of Bashaw
Recreation funding
Terri Huxley
ECA Review
Mayor Penny Shantz and Chief
Administrative Officer (CAO) Theresa
Fuller visited Stettler County chambers
on Tues. Nov.13 to ask for
additional funding towards recreation.
The Bashaw Arena is ran by none
other than the town and they serve
Bashaw Minor Hockey as well as the
Bashaw Skating Club. Two adult
teams, the Bashaw Bruins and the
New Norway Nordics, play regularly
in town as well.
They have been collecting statistics
since 2015 to determine where users of
the rink reside.
Stettler County has been consistent
with eight to nine people each year
minus this year at three.
Camrose County on the other hand
provides roughly 50 participants.
Annual operating funds from
Camrose county includes $20,000 plus
$10,000 to $14,000 for specific programming
like yoga and boot camps.
The arena is constantly run at a
$50,000 deficient offset by tax dollars.
“The community really recognizes
and supports a symbiosis that happens
where the arena brings people to town.
They may buy at the store or eat at the
restaurant,” said Fuller.
They continue to utilize ice fees and
grant funding to cover operations as
much as possible and special projects
such as LED lighting and kitchen concession
renovations.
The zamboni needs to be replaced at
the cost of $110,000 and they need to reroof
soon as well.
Shantz and Fuller hoped to open up
dialogue between the county and town
as to what can be done to help with
funding the arena.
County Coun. James Nibourg asked
if they would get the same ice rental
fees as locals. CAO Fuller explained
that if there is a large amount of users
this can be made possible.
“I’ll be honest, I have rented ice up
to about two or three years ago when
you changed formula and you priced
yourselves out of the market. I could
almost rent the Collicut for the same
price for the amount of time,” said
Nibourg.
Coun. Wayne Nixon mentioned that
their cost sharing agreement contributions
are a lot higher than what
Camrose County is currently giving
the town.
“As a town within the County of
Camrose, I would think maybe they
should be supporting you a little bit
more than they are just from our own
experience,” said Nixon.
Coun. Les
Stulberg joined in
the conversation
stating the county
must be mindful
of what kind of
precedence they
are setting.
County Council
accepted the presentation
as
information.
Youth
Foundation
numbers
increasing
Jennifer Elias
and Candace
Hewlett of the
Bashaw Youth
Foundation gave
council an update
on the day-to-day
inner workings of
the foundation on
Thurs. Nov. 15.
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Programming has been attended well.
“We’ve made quite a few changes
and improvements to our programming
in the last year so it’s taken a
little while for the kids to adjust to
more structure but it’s being received
really well,” said Elias.
Core values of the program such as
inclusion, respect of property, selfesteem
and empowerment and
collaboration.
Children ages 5 to 11 visit after
school where they provide educational
activities like weekly creative cooking.
A science program has been the
other favourite. It focuses in physics
and engineering so the children do different
crafts like levers and catapults.
The large support from the Amazing
Race last year made the game a massive
success which kids still request to
do again.
Kids also enjoyed summer trips to
places like the Telus Spark Centre and
Calloway Park, where they continue to
mix education and fun.
Operational costs were in the range
of $66,000 which they see rising due to
inflation, the carbon tax and the minimum
wage increase to $15 per hour.
The board will be coming together
to find additional fundraising ideas
that may interest the town more than
things in the past.
Based on 2017 numbers prior to the
new facilitators including Jennifer,
they had a total of 41 youth.
“I expect that to rise quite a bit
because the kids really seem to enjoy
the programming that our facilitators
are putting forward with the cooking
and the amazing race,” said Hewlett.
Council requested they keep track of
where everyone is from to identify any
trends or to seek out future funding
based on the numbers.
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