dave FCFSC provide a guaranteed use of the facility for «
minimum amount of time (55 hours per week), accepting all
financial 1sk and, in turn, schedule and wmartet

additional ice to other usere and organizations.

IT HISTORY

Since March of 1987, Fort Coquitlam Figure Skating Club has

been discussing the pressing need to establish one ice surface in

Fort Caquitlam during the spring and summer season. Working

through the Municipal Recreation Department, PCFSC"s xecutive
has both formally and informally discussed, planned and offered
assistance in preparing the requisite briefs to the planners,
budget authorities or councilors. Correspondence dated December
ae, 1987 from the city Recreation Department has the effect of
further Postponing our endeavor. Given this situation, we
believe ai direct approach to the councilors of the city is our
anly avenue. The need is pressing, and the time to act is now.

In February of 1975 s the chairman of the Recreation
Department, Mr. Lean Traboulay, opened the second ice surface at
Port Coquitlam. Coincident with the Opening, we users in the city
were led to believe that a year-round facility was finally to be
available and that all of the various ice users could stop
travelling throughout the lower mainland and use our local
facilities. One group even attempted to begin this process,
approached the city and succeeded in obtaining ice.

The city sound financial and fiscal

responsibility when this praposal proved unsound and, not ‘anly