City Council is set to decide on ratifying their proposed indoor turf facility tender decision tonight.
Back on March 8th council stopped the project in its tracks by voting 7-5 against awarding the tender to the Tom Jones Corporation.
Local groups weighed in on the decision with the President of Soccer Northwest maintaining that this project, which is seven years in the making and counting, isn’t dead in the water.
City Clerk Krista Power, in an email to Acadia Broadcasting, confirmed that should council decide to proceed further tonight with their refusal of the tender, administration will re-introduce the project at a later time.
“Council approved, in principle, a multi-use indoor facility located at Chapples Park on July 22, 2019 which included pre-construction site engineering and applications for funding,” Power indicated. “This was as the result of the presentation of Report 86/2019 at Committee of the Whole. It is this decision that made this project at this location be included in the city’s infrastructure priority list. Further decisions confirm this direction such as Report 150/2019 that awarded the design contract to Stantec on November 4, 2019.”
The search for a new facility was spurred on following the collapse of the Sportsdome on the CLE Grounds in a November 2016 snowstorm.
It threw the soccer community into chaos since both men’s and women’s clubs were forced to cancel their seasons because there was no place to play.
