Caledonia Nordic Cross Country Ski Club
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PO Box 1243 Prince George, BC V2L 4V3 250-564-3809 Prince George City Hall 1100 Patricia Boulevard Prince George, BC V2L 3V9 April 23, 2013 Mayor and Council Re: Caledonia Nordic Ski Club grant application to Northern Development Initiative Trust The Caledonia Nordic Ski Club operates the Otway Nordic Centre at 8141 Otway Road and is implementing substantial facility improvements to better serve the membership, the community and the region. By way of introduction, the club has operated continuously since 1957 and at over 1800 members is the largest ski club in the province and has hosted the cross country ski national championships five times. The club has over 250 athletes in skill development programs with a contingent of 50 volunteer coaches, has a school ski program that hosted over 2500 students from SD 57 schools this season, offers CANSI ski lessons and rentals to the public, and maintains 50 kilometers of ski trails for all level of skiers – all within city limits. The club is directed by a volunteer board and operated by a manager with nine temporary operations staff and a full time coach. The club is a non‐profit society and operates without subsidies. While successful at providing healthy and active living opportunities viably with user fee and membership income, the club has no significant means of raising capital to grow facilities. The club has a strategic plan with publicly stated goals and objectives that guide strategic initiatives and some of those initiatives require capital. At the front of these initiatives currently is a facility upgrade that has two major drivers: . To provide nationally sanctioned competition facilities for cross country skiing and biathlon by the winter of 2014; and . To provide a host site for a regional Nordic training centre post 2015, as envisioned in the Northern Sport Strategy. Pivotal to both of these objectives is construction of a Technical Building that will serve as a race centre during major competitions, and as a program centre for the balance of the year. Caledonia is applying to NDIT for a grant to contribute toward this building, and a condition of that grant is an endorsement from the city by way of a resolution from council. As such, the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club requests that council make the following resolution: THAT the city of Prince George support the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club application to the Northern Development Initiatives Trust’s “Community Halls and Recreation Facilities” program for a grant of $30,000 from the Prince George Regional Development Account to assist in funding the Otway Technical Building. The project is described in the attached draft NDIT application and will provide ongoing benefits to the community and the region. The nationally sanctioned competition facilities will support three major events in the next two years: the Haywood NorAm Western Canadian Cross‐Country Ski Championships and the Western Canadian Biathlon Championships in 2014, and two Nordic events ‐ the cross country ski and biathlon events at the 2015 Canada Winter games in 2015. Beyond 2015 the club has an objective to hold a nationally sanctioned event every second year. This will be a significant economic contributor to sport tourism in Prince George. The concept of a regional Nordic training centre is to provide an environment for aspiring Nordic athletes to train in a high performance setting while maintaining their academic goals – and stay in the north. The Northern Sport Strategy identifies that northern BC underachieves across all sport in general with respect to placing athletes on provincials teams and recommends regional training centres to develop our athletes without having to leave the region. Caledonia has accepted the challenge to lead this initiative for Nordic sport in the region at the Otway Nordic Centre in Prince George. This will bring high achieving youth into the city for as many as four to seven years which will add to the SD 57 sport academy and enrollment at CNC and UNBC and build upon programs of Pacific Sport Northern BC at the Northern Sport Centre. These are motivated young people we need to help achieve their athletic and academic goals and make it feasible for them to do that in the north. We thank you for your consideration of our request and look forward to working with the city to achieve these objectives. Sincerely, Caledonia Nordic Ski Club Jim Burbee Director of Competitions Attachments: 3 NORTHERNDEVELOPMENTINITIATIVETRUST COMMUNITYHALLSANDRECREATIONFACILITIES FUNDINGAPPLICATION AdobeReader8.0+isrequiredtocompletethisapplicationform. Ifyouareusinganearlierversion,youwillnotbeabletosaveanyinformationyouenterintotheform. AdobeReaderisafreedownloadavailableat:http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html 1. ProjectName Provideanamefortheprojectthatisproposedinthisfundingapplication: Otway Technical Building 2. ApplicantProfile ApplicantOrganization(LegalName): NonͲProfitSocietyRegistrationNo.(ifapplicable): Caledonia Nordic Ski Club 5294 Address(street,city,postalcode): Mail: PO Box 1243, Prince George BC V2L 4V3 Street: 8141 Otway Road, Prince George BC V2M 7B4 Telephone: Fax: 250.564.3809 250.564.3809 Email: Website(URL): [email protected] http://www.caledonianordic.com 3. PrimaryContactInformation PrimaryContact(forthisapplication): Position/Title: Jim Burbee Director Competitions CompletethefollowingifdifferentfromApplicantOrganizationcontactinformation: Address(street,city,postalcode): Telephone: 250.564.1518 Email: Fax: [email protected] NorthernDevelopmentInitiativeTrust 301–1268FifthAvenue,PrinceGeorge,BCV2L3L2 Tel: 250Ͳ561Ͳ2525 Fax: 250Ͳ561Ͳ2563 Email: [email protected] 0e~t~1~ "J/2/T/AT/VE TRUST Website: www.northerndevelopment.bc.ca COMMUNITYHALLSANDRECREATIONFACILITIES FUNDINGAPPLICATION 4. SelecttheApplicationProcess NorthernDevelopmentacceptsCommunityHallsandRecreationFacilitiesfundingapplicationstoeachofthefollowing TrustAccounts.SeetheApplicationGuideformoreinformationontheadvisoryreviewandapprovalprocess. Selectoneofthefollowingaccounts: RegionalDevelopment: ~ ------ - ---- 0 ---CaribooͲChilcotin/Lillooet I Northeast I 0 - I Northeast I Northwest I 0 - I I Prince I ® ---PrinceGeorge George 11! ""'\.., Cariboo Chilcotin Lillooet Identifythemunicipalityorregionaldistrictthatissupportingthisfundingapplication: Prince George ResolutionofSupport: 0 Aresolutionofsupportfromthemunicipalityorregionaldistrictisattached. ® Aresolutionofsupporthasnotyetbeensecuredfromthemunicipalityorregionaldistrict. Thedatewhenthisfundingapplicationisscheduledforreviewis: May 10, 2013 ForallRegionalDevelopmentAccountapplications,applicantsareresponsibleforsecuringaresolutionofsupportfroma municipalityorregionaldistrict.TheapplicantmustprovideacertifiedcopyoftheresolutionofsupporttoNorthern Developmentbeforeafundingdecisioncanbemad. TheresolutionofsupportmustspecifyformalsupportforthefundingapplicationtoNorthernDevelopmentbythe municipality’sCouncilortheregionaldistrict’sBoard,theamountandtermsofthefundingsupported,andtheaccount andlocalgovernmentallocationthattheCouncilorBoardsupportsthefundstobedrawnfrom. PublishedMarch2010–Ver.2.0 2 COMMUNITYHALLSANDRECREATIONFACILITIES FUNDINGAPPLICATION 5. ProjectOverview Provideaconcisedescriptionoftheproject: The project is to design and build a Technical Building to support nationally sanctioned Cross Country Ski Competitions at the Otway Nordic Centre located at 8141 Otway Road in Prince George. This building is a two story 1080 square foot building that can serve as a technical centre for competitions ranging from major nationally/internationally sanctioned to youth and local recreational ski competitions. The building is designed to be multi-functional and between events will house staff and volunteers that coach athletes or administer the wide range of competitive and active for life programs at Otway. Expected cost is $260,500.00. The Otway Technical Building is a component of a much larger project of approximately $1.5 million in value that includes two new five kilometer competition ski courses, an expanded cross country ski stadium, a new biathlon range and stadium, a biathlon technical building and improvements to parking and lighting. At this point approximately half of overall project is funded. The city of Prince George has contributed approximately $112,000 of its provincial-federal grant money through the 2015 Canada Winter games Society, the province has contributed about $425,000 through a Ministry of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development grant and most of the project management and trail design and construction has been done by volunteers. This grant application is one more step in the funding process for the overall project plan. The lower floor of the building will have a small meeting room for competition jury meetings as required by FIS and Cross Country Canada competition technical packages. This room will also serve as a program coordinator office between events. There are two indoor plumbed washrooms accessible from the stadium for athletes and volunteers and the remainder of the bottom floor is a large storage area for course and stadium supplies and equipment necessary to control competitions. The upper floor has an office sized room with good visibility that will double as an announcers booth and a coaches office, a small lunch counter (sink and fridge) and a large open room with windows facing the stadium and start-finish lanes leading out of and into the stadium. This will be a timing