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01-31-2007, 12:30 AM
Edit: Title should be... New Crushed Can update
http://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/index.cfm?sid=7383&sc=3
Council to meet WHL standards but how it will is still unclear
ALISON SEBASTIAN
The Moose Jaw Times Herald
The City of Moose Jaw has committed to meet Western Hockey League arena standards for the Moose Jaw Warriors by the 2009-10 season.
However, it was not made clear whether that means the city will build a new arena or renovate the Civic Centre.
The motion to confirm this commitment by letter was carried at Monday’s city council meeting in a five to one vote.
Coun. Darin Chow, who is the president/governor of the Moose Jaw Warriors was not at Monday’s meeting.
The WHL had given the city a deadline of Jan. 31 to indicate if it planned to meet the league’s arena standards. The league wanted to know before it began drawing up the schedule for the 2007-08 season.
The Civic Centre comes up short of many of the league’s standards, in the areas of dressing rooms, space for the media, among others.
Coun. Brian Swanson was the sole person to vote against the motion, although earlier in the discussion he was not alone in expressing concerns.
Coun. Dawn Luhning proposed two amendments to the motion, one calling for action on the part of the WHL and the other dealing with the 2009-10 deadline.
“If we are going to make a commitment to the WHL they should make a commitment to us,” said Luhning.
She made the comments after clarifying how the city’s major projects fund of $900,000 would be out of use for 25 years because the funds would be monopolized by the proposed multiplex.
Luhning said if the city ties up a source of funding for 25 years, which the multiplex would, the WHL should give the city some assurance the team would be kept in the city for the same amount of time.
The other five members of council voted against the amendment.
The second amendment Luhning tried to move was that the 2009-010 deadline be omitted from the motion.
She wanted to know if having the dates in the motion were binding for the city and what would happen if the city did not have a facility by then.
City clerk Steven Schiefner said the WHL was looking for a commitment for some type of facility to be built by then but it does not mean the dates are binding.
http://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/index.cfm?sid=7383&sc=3
Council to meet WHL standards but how it will is still unclear
ALISON SEBASTIAN
The Moose Jaw Times Herald
The City of Moose Jaw has committed to meet Western Hockey League arena standards for the Moose Jaw Warriors by the 2009-10 season.
However, it was not made clear whether that means the city will build a new arena or renovate the Civic Centre.
The motion to confirm this commitment by letter was carried at Monday’s city council meeting in a five to one vote.
Coun. Darin Chow, who is the president/governor of the Moose Jaw Warriors was not at Monday’s meeting.
The WHL had given the city a deadline of Jan. 31 to indicate if it planned to meet the league’s arena standards. The league wanted to know before it began drawing up the schedule for the 2007-08 season.
The Civic Centre comes up short of many of the league’s standards, in the areas of dressing rooms, space for the media, among others.
Coun. Brian Swanson was the sole person to vote against the motion, although earlier in the discussion he was not alone in expressing concerns.
Coun. Dawn Luhning proposed two amendments to the motion, one calling for action on the part of the WHL and the other dealing with the 2009-10 deadline.
“If we are going to make a commitment to the WHL they should make a commitment to us,” said Luhning.
She made the comments after clarifying how the city’s major projects fund of $900,000 would be out of use for 25 years because the funds would be monopolized by the proposed multiplex.
Luhning said if the city ties up a source of funding for 25 years, which the multiplex would, the WHL should give the city some assurance the team would be kept in the city for the same amount of time.
The other five members of council voted against the amendment.
The second amendment Luhning tried to move was that the 2009-010 deadline be omitted from the motion.
She wanted to know if having the dates in the motion were binding for the city and what would happen if the city did not have a facility by then.
City clerk Steven Schiefner said the WHL was looking for a commitment for some type of facility to be built by then but it does not mean the dates are binding.