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INFO SHEET - Additional Ice Pad - Centre 70
City of Kingston -- 2002-03
Parks & Arenas Division
Department of Community Services
Fax: 544-1890 (613) 544-4442 ext. 1800
[Note - as of January 2004 this project appears to be abandoned according to recent media coverage]
http://www.cityofkingston.ca/pdf/recreation/twinningarena_infosheet.pdf
1. On December 17, 2002 City Council approved, as part of the Capital Budget, the construction
of a new ice pad at Centre 70. The approved expenditure is 3 Million dollars.
2. Financing: Ice user fees for youth will be surcharged by 10% and the ice user fee for adults
shall be surcharged by 15% and will be effective September 2003; monies from parkland
reserve fund; and donations of $300,000.
3. The objective is to have the new ice pad constructed and ready for use by the fall of 2004 for
the winter ice season 2004-2005.
Rationale for Twining:
- The Parks & Arenas Division finds its self in a difficult position of seeing the City through a
transition stage of repairing and upgrading older arenas so these arenas can meet today’s
standards and user group requirements.
- If these ice facilities are to continue to be part of an inventory of city owned and operated
arenas upgrades and repairs to these older arenas are a necessity.
- If the city starts on a comprehensive program to repair and upgrade these ice facilities now it
will take a minimum of five years to complete. Extensive renovations to existing ice facilities
cannot be done without the flexibility of having an additional ice surface to accommodate the
user groups’ demands for ice time.
Arena Study 2003
- It is recognized by the Department of Community Services that an Arena Study is required
for a comprehensive review to determine the best long term options for the city in providing
ice facilities to the community.
- The Arena Study, to be underway in 2003, will determine which structures should be
renovated and brought up to modern standards and which ones if any should be
repurposed. This study will take a year to complete.
- Once the Arenas Study is completed it will take another year to start to implement the recommendations.
- In the interim it will be difficult for city council to consider extensive renovations to existing
ice facilities and look at future ice needs without the flexibility of having an additional ice
surface to accommodate the current user groups’ demands for ice time.
- Therefore Parks and Arenas staff have recommended that a twin pad be built which will allow
the flexibility in the system so that a new ice pad will be up and running when the Arena
study makes recommendations on repairs, renovations or expansions to existing facilities
and addresses the long term ice needs of the community.
- The city of Mississauga is approaching their current arena facilities in a similar manner.
Under the SuperBuild fund they identified deficiencies and upgrades required to address health and safety issues. With 25 arenas, they determined there were advantages in time and money if they city built a new twin pad facility and took one arenas off line per year and did major works rather than piecemealing the process. They could do the major renovations required on their arenas without affecting ice user groups.
- Current Situation:
1. The current arenas cannot accommodate user demand for ice allocation;
2. Six of the seven municipally run ice pads date from before 1973, with 3 of them dating from the early 1960’s and the Memorial Centre dating from 1951. Health and safety issues, accessibility requirements and co-ed programs are not all being served by these ice facilities.
3. Aging infrastructure is on ‘borrowed’ time and a system failure could take one of the older arenas out of service. There is also no flexibility in the system should one of the older arenas suddenly have an emergency shutdown.
4. Should an arena become inoperable 72 hours of useable ice time per week would be lost to partner groups and could not be replaced.
5. Economic benefits are lost to the city because of the lack of opportunity for ice time for tournaments, events and other competitions;
6. With the addition of a new ice pad proper planning can take place without the pressures of emergency repairs or shut downs which would compound the problem of available ice shortage.
7. Centre 70 has been selected as the site for the twin pad as the structure is in good condition, the site can accommodate the parking, no user groups would displaced and the location is central to the urban area of the amalgamated city.
Timing:
January 2003 - Initial public meeting and feedback from public and user groups
-advertise for architectural services
February 2003 -review proposals for architectural services
- enter into contract for architectural services
-conceptual plans drawn up based on user information and staff input
March 2003 -end of February/beginning of March, public review of concept plans.
April 2003 -Request for proposals for design builders
May/June2003 receive proposals for design build contractors
-Council review of proposals
July 2003 -awarding of contract
-review of contract with contractor
August 2003 -start of construction
July 2004 -end of Construction
Process:
- The public and user groups will be consulted again once a concept plan has been
developed by an architectural firm
- Long term partner needs and facility assessment will be done as part of the Arena Study being undertaken by the Department of Community services.
Purpose of the Meeting:
1. The purpose of this meeting is to update ice users on the proposal to Twin Centre 70.
2. The objective of the meeting is to get input into design considerations for the facility.
Note:
A Steering Committee will be set up to look into donations required for the works. If anyone is interested in sitting on this committee please contact Kris Kullas at 544-4442 ext. 1817.
A copy of the staff report entitled Arena Capital Budget Issues is available upon request at the offices at the Cataraqui Community Centre.
*Requested Hours:
Partner Groups 469 Hours
Adult 55 Hours
City of Kingston Program 10 Hours
Maintenance 14 Hours
*Special Events 40 Hours
* Total 588 Hours
*Special events are 1050 hours over the 26 weeks; this is the average over a 26 week period.
The chart indicates that partner and user group requests for useable ice time are not being met. The seven arenas provide 504 hours of useable ice per week and the demand is for
588 hours of useable ice time per week. The shortfall is 84 hours per week. If one additional ice pad is brought online seventy-two (72) hours of the shortfall can be accommodated but twelve (12) hours would still not be available.
Due to the shortfall of available ice the city has negotiated with the partner and user groups a finite total of 1050 hours for special events and tournaments over the 26 week season.
Many requests for tournaments and special events that create a positive economic impact to the city have had to be turned away due to lack of available ice.
In addition to partner and user groups ice allocation requests, facility booking staff take requests daily for casual ice usage for pick up and adult hockey, high school hockey, private
skating, clinics, birthday parties etc. Unless a potential ‘booking’ can be accommodated in non-prime hours between 9 am and 4 pm (weekdays) these requests cannot be accommodated as all other useable time slots are allocated to partner and user groups.
Presently public access to City of Kingston ice facilities are available through City of Kingston programs such as public skating, senior skating, parent & tot skate, shinny hockey)
The 10 hours booked for these uses represents less than 2% of the useable ice time for the city. The addition of another ice surface the city could provide greater opportunities for times
and locations of pubic skating. The community would be better served with another ice pad.
(c) What are our ice facility needs?
To determine the ice facility needs for a city the size of Kingston and for future population increases, Parks & Arenas staff have looked into the following two documents which provides guidance on per capita ratios for arenas.
1997 Arena Facility Report, (Kingston Municipal Operations)
Figures in the 1997 Arena Facility Report which surveyed 18 municipalities indicates an average per capita ratio of 1 rink per 13,630 persons. For purposes of this report we have
rounded the ratio up to one rink per 14,000 persons.
Guidelines for Facility Planning: (Ontario Recreation Facilities Association-Sept 2002)
The September 2002 Guidelines for Facility Planning, produced by Ontario Recreation Facilities Association Inc. sets out standards based on community activity levels in ice activities:
“If residents of your municipalities are ‘very active’ in ice activities and you have a minor hockey system for boys and girls, skating club, adult hockey and senior hockey and community public skating.
Standard Ratio –One artificial ice rink per 8,000 people.
If residents of your municipality are ‘fairly active’ in ice activities and you have a minor hockey system for boys and girls, skating club and adult hockey.
Standard Ratio- one artificial ice rink per 14,000 people.”
(ORFA-2002 Sept)
The City of Kingston would appear to fit into the ‘very active’ category based on the definition noted above. City of Kingston ice pads provide service to: minor hockey for boys
and girls, skating club, adult hockey, senior hockey, community public skating, as well as ringette, synchronized skating, speed skating, sledge hockey, an OHL team, and a Provincial Junior ‘A’ team.
The attached charts (see attached PDf file) set out per capita arena requirements based on the 1:14000 ratio (1997 Arena Facility Report survey and 1:8000 ratio recommended by ORFA for very active ice user community.
* 7 .3 ice pads is based on seven city run ice pads and time available to the public at both Constantine and Jock Harty A total of 20 hours of available ice time per week is counted as .3 of an ice pad in the calculations in the both charts.
The two charts show a wide range of guidelines for the provision of ice rinks per capita. The 1:14,000 ratio is conservative figure and the 1:8000 is a maximum figure. The reality is more than likely in the middle range. What the figures do show is that based on the current population Kingston has fewer rinks than required to service its current population and as the population increases there is a need to add a new ice pad every 5 years.
see full PDF report attached:
City of Kingston -- 2002-03
Parks & Arenas Division
Department of Community Services
Fax: 544-1890 (613) 544-4442 ext. 1800
[Note - as of January 2004 this project appears to be abandoned according to recent media coverage]
http://www.cityofkingston.ca/pdf/recreation/twinningarena_infosheet.pdf
1. On December 17, 2002 City Council approved, as part of the Capital Budget, the construction
of a new ice pad at Centre 70. The approved expenditure is 3 Million dollars.
2. Financing: Ice user fees for youth will be surcharged by 10% and the ice user fee for adults
shall be surcharged by 15% and will be effective September 2003; monies from parkland
reserve fund; and donations of $300,000.
3. The objective is to have the new ice pad constructed and ready for use by the fall of 2004 for
the winter ice season 2004-2005.
Rationale for Twining:
- The Parks & Arenas Division finds its self in a difficult position of seeing the City through a
transition stage of repairing and upgrading older arenas so these arenas can meet today’s
standards and user group requirements.
- If these ice facilities are to continue to be part of an inventory of city owned and operated
arenas upgrades and repairs to these older arenas are a necessity.
- If the city starts on a comprehensive program to repair and upgrade these ice facilities now it
will take a minimum of five years to complete. Extensive renovations to existing ice facilities
cannot be done without the flexibility of having an additional ice surface to accommodate the
user groups’ demands for ice time.
Arena Study 2003
- It is recognized by the Department of Community Services that an Arena Study is required
for a comprehensive review to determine the best long term options for the city in providing
ice facilities to the community.
- The Arena Study, to be underway in 2003, will determine which structures should be
renovated and brought up to modern standards and which ones if any should be
repurposed. This study will take a year to complete.
- Once the Arenas Study is completed it will take another year to start to implement the recommendations.
- In the interim it will be difficult for city council to consider extensive renovations to existing
ice facilities and look at future ice needs without the flexibility of having an additional ice
surface to accommodate the current user groups’ demands for ice time.
- Therefore Parks and Arenas staff have recommended that a twin pad be built which will allow
the flexibility in the system so that a new ice pad will be up and running when the Arena
study makes recommendations on repairs, renovations or expansions to existing facilities
and addresses the long term ice needs of the community.
- The city of Mississauga is approaching their current arena facilities in a similar manner.
Under the SuperBuild fund they identified deficiencies and upgrades required to address health and safety issues. With 25 arenas, they determined there were advantages in time and money if they city built a new twin pad facility and took one arenas off line per year and did major works rather than piecemealing the process. They could do the major renovations required on their arenas without affecting ice user groups.
- Current Situation:
1. The current arenas cannot accommodate user demand for ice allocation;
2. Six of the seven municipally run ice pads date from before 1973, with 3 of them dating from the early 1960’s and the Memorial Centre dating from 1951. Health and safety issues, accessibility requirements and co-ed programs are not all being served by these ice facilities.
3. Aging infrastructure is on ‘borrowed’ time and a system failure could take one of the older arenas out of service. There is also no flexibility in the system should one of the older arenas suddenly have an emergency shutdown.
4. Should an arena become inoperable 72 hours of useable ice time per week would be lost to partner groups and could not be replaced.
5. Economic benefits are lost to the city because of the lack of opportunity for ice time for tournaments, events and other competitions;
6. With the addition of a new ice pad proper planning can take place without the pressures of emergency repairs or shut downs which would compound the problem of available ice shortage.
7. Centre 70 has been selected as the site for the twin pad as the structure is in good condition, the site can accommodate the parking, no user groups would displaced and the location is central to the urban area of the amalgamated city.
Timing:
January 2003 - Initial public meeting and feedback from public and user groups
-advertise for architectural services
February 2003 -review proposals for architectural services
- enter into contract for architectural services
-conceptual plans drawn up based on user information and staff input
March 2003 -end of February/beginning of March, public review of concept plans.
April 2003 -Request for proposals for design builders
May/June2003 receive proposals for design build contractors
-Council review of proposals
July 2003 -awarding of contract
-review of contract with contractor
August 2003 -start of construction
July 2004 -end of Construction
Process:
- The public and user groups will be consulted again once a concept plan has been
developed by an architectural firm
- Long term partner needs and facility assessment will be done as part of the Arena Study being undertaken by the Department of Community services.
Purpose of the Meeting:
1. The purpose of this meeting is to update ice users on the proposal to Twin Centre 70.
2. The objective of the meeting is to get input into design considerations for the facility.
Note:
A Steering Committee will be set up to look into donations required for the works. If anyone is interested in sitting on this committee please contact Kris Kullas at 544-4442 ext. 1817.
A copy of the staff report entitled Arena Capital Budget Issues is available upon request at the offices at the Cataraqui Community Centre.
*Requested Hours:
Partner Groups 469 Hours
Adult 55 Hours
City of Kingston Program 10 Hours
Maintenance 14 Hours
*Special Events 40 Hours
* Total 588 Hours
*Special events are 1050 hours over the 26 weeks; this is the average over a 26 week period.
The chart indicates that partner and user group requests for useable ice time are not being met. The seven arenas provide 504 hours of useable ice per week and the demand is for
588 hours of useable ice time per week. The shortfall is 84 hours per week. If one additional ice pad is brought online seventy-two (72) hours of the shortfall can be accommodated but twelve (12) hours would still not be available.
Due to the shortfall of available ice the city has negotiated with the partner and user groups a finite total of 1050 hours for special events and tournaments over the 26 week season.
Many requests for tournaments and special events that create a positive economic impact to the city have had to be turned away due to lack of available ice.
In addition to partner and user groups ice allocation requests, facility booking staff take requests daily for casual ice usage for pick up and adult hockey, high school hockey, private
skating, clinics, birthday parties etc. Unless a potential ‘booking’ can be accommodated in non-prime hours between 9 am and 4 pm (weekdays) these requests cannot be accommodated as all other useable time slots are allocated to partner and user groups.
Presently public access to City of Kingston ice facilities are available through City of Kingston programs such as public skating, senior skating, parent & tot skate, shinny hockey)
The 10 hours booked for these uses represents less than 2% of the useable ice time for the city. The addition of another ice surface the city could provide greater opportunities for times
and locations of pubic skating. The community would be better served with another ice pad.
(c) What are our ice facility needs?
To determine the ice facility needs for a city the size of Kingston and for future population increases, Parks & Arenas staff have looked into the following two documents which provides guidance on per capita ratios for arenas.
1997 Arena Facility Report, (Kingston Municipal Operations)
Figures in the 1997 Arena Facility Report which surveyed 18 municipalities indicates an average per capita ratio of 1 rink per 13,630 persons. For purposes of this report we have
rounded the ratio up to one rink per 14,000 persons.
Guidelines for Facility Planning: (Ontario Recreation Facilities Association-Sept 2002)
The September 2002 Guidelines for Facility Planning, produced by Ontario Recreation Facilities Association Inc. sets out standards based on community activity levels in ice activities:
“If residents of your municipalities are ‘very active’ in ice activities and you have a minor hockey system for boys and girls, skating club, adult hockey and senior hockey and community public skating.
Standard Ratio –One artificial ice rink per 8,000 people.
If residents of your municipality are ‘fairly active’ in ice activities and you have a minor hockey system for boys and girls, skating club and adult hockey.
Standard Ratio- one artificial ice rink per 14,000 people.”
(ORFA-2002 Sept)
The City of Kingston would appear to fit into the ‘very active’ category based on the definition noted above. City of Kingston ice pads provide service to: minor hockey for boys
and girls, skating club, adult hockey, senior hockey, community public skating, as well as ringette, synchronized skating, speed skating, sledge hockey, an OHL team, and a Provincial Junior ‘A’ team.
The attached charts (see attached PDf file) set out per capita arena requirements based on the 1:14000 ratio (1997 Arena Facility Report survey and 1:8000 ratio recommended by ORFA for very active ice user community.
* 7 .3 ice pads is based on seven city run ice pads and time available to the public at both Constantine and Jock Harty A total of 20 hours of available ice time per week is counted as .3 of an ice pad in the calculations in the both charts.
The two charts show a wide range of guidelines for the provision of ice rinks per capita. The 1:14,000 ratio is conservative figure and the 1:8000 is a maximum figure. The reality is more than likely in the middle range. What the figures do show is that based on the current population Kingston has fewer rinks than required to service its current population and as the population increases there is a need to add a new ice pad every 5 years.
see full PDF report attached: