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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEGD-023-11Clar.~g~~o~ Leading the Way e ENGINEERING SERVICES Meeting: GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE . Date: Monday May 30, 2011 ~c~a ~~oN : G ~K1 ~ Qa3- J~ Report #: EGD-023-11 File #: Subject: HAMPTON SKATEBOARD PARK By-law #: RECOMMENDATIONS: ft is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee recommend to Council the following: 1. THAT Report EGD-023-11 be received; 2. THAT Council authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute the Gift Agreement between Hydro One and The Municipality; and 3. THAT interested parties be notified of Council's decision Respectfully by, G Submitted by: A.S. Cannella, C.E.T. Reviewed by: Director of Engineering Services May 20, 2011 ASC/PW/jo d~~=~ ~ Franklin Wu, Chief Administrative Officer CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON 40 TEMPERANCE STREET, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO Li C 3A6 T 905-623-3379 F 905-623-9282 REPORT NO.: EGD-023-11 PAGE 2 1.0 BACKGROUND In November 2010 a number of letters and petition were submitted to the Community Services Department requesting a Skateboard Park for the Village of Hampton (Attachment 1). The CSD responded to the letters and forwarded the information to the Engineering Department for follow-up. Engineering staff met with Melanie Blakely, who submitted the petition to CSD on behalf of the community to discuss possible locations and funding sources for a skateboard park in Hampton. 2.0 ANALYSIS When the municipality has received similar requests from community groups ih Orono and Newcastle we have committed to providing a suitable municipal site and providing the riding surface for modular skateboard park equipment. The community then raises the funds to purchase and install the equipment. Modular equipment is pre-manufactured for placement on a paved surface and is the most cost effective way of providing a skateboard park for a small town or village. As with the skateboard park projects in Orono and Newcastle the municipality assists with applications for outside sources of funding such as the Ontario Trillium Foundation. This model was used successfully to construct the Orono Skate Board Park and is currently underway for the proposed Newcastle Skateboard Park. Unfortunately the Newcastle Lions grant application to Trillium was not approved but staff will continue to meet with interested parties in Newcastle to pursue outside sources of funding. Ms. Blakely is nonaffiliated with a service club or other incorporated entity so she would not be eligible to apply for Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant for the project. REPORT NO.: EGD-023-11 PAGE 3 Hydro One Networks has a funding program called PowerPlay which is geared to supporting children's community sports and active play. The program is open to municipalities and registered charities in communities where Hydro .One is the local electricity supplier. Hampton is supplied by Hydro One so an application to the PowerPlay program was submitted by the municipality for modular skateboard park equipment. In April the municipality was informed that PowerPlay would grant $15,000 towards the project. To receive the grant a Gift Agreement (Attachment 2) between Hydro One and the Municipality needs to be executed. 3.0 CONCLUSION The grant from Hydro One PowerPlay is an excellent start towards purchasing modular skateboard park equipment for Hampton. The application to PowerPlay was for a $25,000 grant but the community is committed to raising additional funds to hopefully reach that amount. Staff will continue to meet with Ms. Blakely and other interested community members in Hampton to determine an appropriate location and design for the park. The Gift Agreement provides 12 months to spend the grant funds. This will provide the community time to raise additional funds and to determine an appropriate location in conjunction with the municipality. Depending on the. location, the municipality may need to construct a paved surface for the equipment. If so the funding for the paved surface would be referred to the 2012 budget. Attachments: Attachment 1 -Letters of request and petition Attachment 2 -Gift Agreement Interested parties to be advised of Council's decision: Melanie and Dan. Blakely Monty Wheller and Michael Convery Shane Blakely ATTACHMENT N0.:1 REPORT NO.: EGD-023.11 57elame 131dKely -NfePanie BlekelP <dan 61akelvQsympatrco.ca> P`~ ~' ; .^M'p^'~4'}-'~ Sent: Novemher-25-1010'38 AM I~ flit '~s y ~~'~ P i Subject: Fw' SkerehoaN letter f y ,LEA'' ~ z, 4 ` j ,~' MLNfCf?A,L17}` er&~ i„_r;nir~,' i" - ~; Melanie and Dan Blakely 5206 Old Scugog Rd Her~atonAnt. LOB 1J0 Nov 25,2010. Mr Joe Caruana: Director of Community Services We would Tike to express our concern to you os parents of young children growing up in the rural community of Hampton. Our son Shnne LOVES to skateboard and ride his bike. Unfortunately with our concerns of persistent speeding on Old Scugog Road and lack of side-walks in the lower portion of the vilktge, we have had to try and encourage our kids to ride on the back streets. This is not an optimal setting for kids to spend their time. We know that everyone wants kids to stay out of trouble, therefore we want to support them in their desire to obtain a skate park ~ ' We have spent marry days at the skateboard parks, carpooling other kids tram the community in and out of Courtice and Bowmanville and Orono, how nice would it be for them to have a place in Hampton they could call their own Recently a group of youth, aged 10-13 signed a petition (see enclosed) asking for a skateboard parkin Hampton. It was presented to the Hampton Community Association. The Association followed up by approaching relatives in Wnrkworth who had recently built a skate park there. They have given us information on how to get started & raise funds, as well as including a catabgue with marry styles of parks. We would like to ask your point of view and suggestions in this venture to help us follow through for our kids and for the kids in the future. We also need to ask about an appropriate location. We have 3 possible locations, behind the Post office (where the quonset now sits with caution tape surrounding it-a definite attraction for bored kids), behind the community hnll or behind Darlington Sports Centre. I think all ar¢ goad possibilities, but the Sports centre is a little more secluded, perhaps too secluded. We would like to provide the people in our community with a safe area to meet their friends for healthy exercise. If you have ever sat and observed the participnnts at a skatepark, you already know the ranges of ages are immense, They range firom young children learning how to ride their bikes, ride their skateboards and scooters to the 30 year old man who just loves to skateboard. With todays populntion of overweight kids growing at an alarming speed, we find it very important to encourage excecise in our young people. We would appreciate your can5iderotiori as well as any guidance on legal matters and what steps should 6e taken next. Thank-you, we look forwwd to your response. Sincerely Melanie & Dan Blakely (pareMS of an 11 yr old skateboarder) 25/li/2QiQ Dear town of Hampton, .s4 _.~ t, N0'J ~ 5 2090 , '; n~ura~c~r~~., ~ ; ,~~ :..~,_ ,_,. ,. Hi my name is Monty Wheller. I was thinking about having a skate parkin our town and I thought that would be awesome if we did. The reason why I would like one is because if I wanted to go to a skate park I have to get a drive and most of the time I can't get a ride. But if we got a skate park in town we could use it everyday and know would need to get a drive. Me and my friends made a petition almost about a year ago and I brought it to school and I kept it in pocket just in case I saw some people that did not sign it yet I think I got around 250 kids to sign it and I got some adult's to. Thank you for reading this letter and one more thing. can you look into a bowl for the skate park if you decide to make it oh and place's to build it the basketball court in the park or at the community center. Sincerely Monty Wheller l~a°~ ~ ~ ae~l~ To whom this may concern: My name is Shane Blakely and I am a 11 year old boy. I live in Hampton and I would Like to see a skatepark come to our community because there is a need for it. We have to drive all the way to Courtice, Bowmanville or Orono to have a good skate. This means having to ask one of our parents to drive us there. My friends and I have so much fun skateboarding, but this fun time shall last no longer then 2 hours because I have to go home. Buisness's don't like us skateboarding on there property, or municipal places like the hall or the arena, yet we have no were else to go. If we had a skateboard park we could be ourselves, without worrying about getting yelled at. We are all good kids. Pretty much all of the kids who volunteered to work the Hampton Fun day are the kids whom desperately want to see a park in Hampton. My three friends Cory Crawford ,Ben Jeffs and Monty Weller and I had voluntered to husk corn and set-up and ran also various games, we saw. this and through and also stayed to help clean-up. I think that a skate park is an appropriate feature of our wonderful Community, Sincere/y,Shone Blakely And remember sknteboarding is not a crime +.~ ~ a .;:;-. .. ~1~ s -_._.__ -~ ~f _ _ ~ i NOV v ~ `' X010 Dear Hampton People Its monty wheller and Michael convery we are wondering if we could have a skate parkin Hampton. The reason that we want a skate park is because we are always biking around and there is no good place to do our tricks and the only good places to go are Bomanville Oshawa courtice skate parks and they are all to far away and we half to get our parents to drive us there. We also would like one so could just walk out the door and bike or skateboard there. Here is a list of people that would like a skate park as well as us. ~~ ~ iJhe ~r ~~ - ! 0~(~ Sc~U b ~t ~y ~ 5- ~~ ~ ~ ~~~I ~~ ~t~;~fili1 C~c ~- ~ ~, ,. s~I r!(~d ~~. ~,~ ~~ f~~~'~i~ ~Y?Gc-1~i+ ~~_.~/~, ~--~7'~~f ; ~% ~~~~~ ~--~.~~ ~~/~~ ~ r ~~GI~iC`~' ~ ~ (Yt,Or,\Q`S ~1 ~jN)i ~ iJ 1 C~.S'C.C4 A m,~ ~ t ~- ~~~~~~ ~~ ~~ F> t v. , ~. L~ ~ ~(1 ~ ~- ~ ®~-' `(lc~ ~._ ff ,, ~.l ~ I~~ ~ l E~ ~"F~~ i~.~ u e J~- a-~ ~~v ~-~ S eese Te~bu~ Share S~-.r~~--t ~~ ~~ ~~l~Ger ~: ~k7L ;r-;1~}s° ~~ r ~~ ~-~ ~, ~~ ~oh~ G~st~l~o -_ Lp~~ C ~m rn'y n~~ `WeS~~~. Lctiotrv,~ ~r5 ,1' ' 1; t ~~r~ ~~r n~.~ ,, ,. ~~<~{ ~yh~~n i~ele--~ Nc;~.: ~~ ~`,~iy ~W.~,~~~ ~~~ ~r~ ~" r~it ~~~- ~~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~.:~ ~:z~, ~.% ~~ ~~ ~, nr ,r--,~ ~ . , ~~ ~1~~~~~~1( ~ _ <~C~~~~;~ ~ ~ 1 c~,C_ 1,~~~~1 S~ ; ~~~ ~,~, ~~c~~~1y ~r~~~~~ I~~ ~~~1~-~`~ ~~~~~~ Gift Agreement with Hydro One Networks Inc. 0 Power flay Everyizu. y ovtaria conw.ww.Cties GIFT AGREEMENT BETWEEN HYDRO ONE NETWORKS INC. ("HONI") AND THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON (the "Recipient' ATTACHMENT N0.:2 REPORT NO.: EGD-023-11 I~y~ ro ~~ HONI would like to make a donation to the Recipient through the Hydro One PowexPlay giant program, supporting children's sports and recreation facilities, on the terms and conditions set out in this Gift Agreement ("Agreement'. (I) THE DONATION HONI agrees to make a donation ("Gift") of $15,000 in the farm of a cheque on the terms and conditions set out herein. The Gift shall be issued once this Agreement is signed by both HONI and the Recipient. The Recipient shall issue a receipt fox tax purposes in the amount of the Gift. (II) PURPOSE The Recipient shall use the Gift for the purchase and installation of modular skateboard park equipment for the current skatepazk facility located in Hampton, Ontario, and to be transported to the new skateboard pazk facility once completed in 2012, located in Hampton, Ontario (the "Original Purpose"). If there is a change in this location; the Recipient shall promptly notify HONI of the change in writing. If the change results in a move to a location outside of HONI distribution service territory, the Recipient shall promptly return the Gift to HONI. If the Recipient cannot use the Gift fox the Original Puxpos'e, at HONI's option, HONI shall either be entitled to a refund of the Gift or direct the Recipient to use it for an alternate purpose to be determined by HONI in consultation with the Recipient. The Gift will be utilized in accordance with this Agreement within six (~~months of issue date. The Recipient must promptly notify HONI in pw writing of any delay in such use. (III) RECOGNITION In recognition of the Gift from HONI, the Recipient shall do the following with HONI's prior written consent: 1) Acknowledgement on recipient website, and any publications made about the facility, including any newsletters, and 2) Affix permanent signage/plaque with HONI's logo, along with other community. funders, at the site of the facility. The Recipient will work with HONI to come to an agreement on the specifications. Recipient shall ensure that said signage remains free of graffiti and damage, and otherwise remains in a state of good repair at all times. Recognition of Hydto One in donor listings will be in the name of Hydro One Inc., unless otherwise directed by Hydro One. Recognition items. above shall be reported to HONI as outlined in Section (I~ Recipient Reporting. GiftAgreementwith Hydro One Networks Inc. Page 2 oft (Pik .RECIPIENT REPORTING The Recipient shall deliver to HONI a written final report upon project completion on the status of the Gift and how it was applied by the Recipient. The report can be brief, but must include the following: - Total final cost of the project - Total funding raised by the community - How HONI funding was applied - Benefits to the community and measurable impacts made on the community - .Testimonials from community members - Photos of the completed project and photos of signage (electronic version) The Recipient shall deliver this report to HONI witht_n 3p davs of project completion. The Recipient shall promptly notify HONI in writing of any delay in project completion past the date set out below. Based on current projections, I anticipate that the project will be complete by JuN~30,2012 . ~w OTHER (Date (Initaa!) The Recipient agrees that in no event shall HONI, any of its affiliates, or their respective directors, officers, employees, or consultants ("Indemnitees") be liable for any loss, damage or injury to persons or property (including death) of any kind whatsoever (including, without limitation any economic loss, loss of goodwill, ox fox any special, indirect or consequential damages), whether the said losses, damages or injuries are incurred by the Indemnitees, the Recipient or by any third party claiming through ox under the Recipient and/ox the Indemnntees, which arise out of or are related to the Gift, the Original Purpose and/or otherwise as a result of this Agreement ("Losses"). The Recipient shall defend and fully indemnify the Indemnitees from and against any and all such Losses and any and all actions, suits, proceedings, claims, debts, obligations, expenses, demands, penalties, fines and costs arising therefrom and connected therewith. The Recipient hereby, for itself and its successors and assigns, releases and forever discharges the Indemnitees from and against any and all such aforementioned liability. This provision shall survive termination of this Agreement In the event that the Gift and the activities undertaken by the Recipient in connection therewith are in material conflict with the mission and/or policies of either HONI or the Recipient, either party shall have the right to terminate this Agreement immediately and the Recipient shall return the Gifr to HONI within thirty (30) days of such termination. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between HONI and the Recipient respecting the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior negotiations, representations, understanding or agreements, written or oral, between them. This Agreement may be amended only by mutual written agreement of the HONI and the Recipient. This Agreement shall be governed by and constmed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. Agreed to this day of , ZpI I, HYDRO ONE NETWORKS INC. THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON t~ ame: Title: I have authority to brad the corporation. i~ ame: Title: I have authority to bind the company.