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CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM
PARKS

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RECREATION COMMITTEE

A meeting of the Parks
A Recreation Committee
was held in
Council Chambers on wednesday,
February 5th, 1986, at 3:45 the
p.m.
In attendance were Alderman George Laking
and Alderman Mike
Far nworth,

Also in attendance were K. Janna Taylor
Parks A Recreatio
crea ion
r ctor, Alderman Mike Gates,
Alderman
Bill
Stewart and Fred
Peters (Item No. 3 only).
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That the minutes of the meeting years
of the Parks A Recreation
Committee held on Wednesday,
January
15th, 1986, be taken as read
and adopted.
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The Committee discussed the memorandum
from Joanne
Edey Nicoll, whioh is attached. This year'

Participaction is being run in a different manner
than in previous
The municipality can
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challenge any other municipality
regardless of
population. In the past, tbe challenge
has been
with municipalitites in certain population
categories. As you will recall, the city had
Cornerbrook as their challenge
last year. It was
also indicated that the amount of
money is not
worth
the effort to do it.

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That the City of Port
Participaction 1986. Cojjuitlam Dot par ticipate in
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Colin Ticehurst came to the Committee meeting
to discuss his housing development and that he
wishes to erect an entrance si.gn. Ile wishes the
city to maintain the sign and the boulevard area
around it. The Committee looked at the sign and
also discussed the kind of ground cover that
should be utili.zed. The Committee agreed that as
Mr.

it was the entrance to a sub-division, it would
look nice, and is appropriate.

Recommendation:
That the City of Port Coquitlam Parks A Recreation
Department would be responsible 4'r 4'ull
maintenance of the entrance sign and the boulevard
area around the sign.
CARRIED

Item No

Nature Reserve
The Public Work" Committee was

in attendance for
Collard and Mr. Anderson were in
attendance to discuss the problem behind their
houses where they had water coming from Reeve
Street Park. Mr. Collard and Mr. Anderson
indicated that they were getting a tremendous
amount of water from there. The Parks
Recreati.on Department had gone into the nature
reserve to fix a potentially dangerous and unsafe
area; however, their properties are extremely wet
and they wanted the Committee to address the
problem of run-off from the nature reserve. The
Public Works Committee will investigate the
problem and possible solutions with costing.
Mr. Collard A Mr. Anderson will be kept, informed
as to the progress.

this item.

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Recommendation

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That the Pubic Works Committee proceed to do
costing on correcting the water problem in the
nature reserve and will bring back various
solutions with costing.
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Ref'crees Room

Janna Taylor went over plans to show how the

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room would be enlarged.
the
present first-aid room would becomeBasically
the
r eferees
room, the hallway into the old arena would be
blocked of'f and the fir st aid room would be
cr eated in the front part of this area and the
back portion would be for storage. The cost of
this particular

item would come out of'egular
maintenance and would be well under $ 1,000.
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That the plan, as presented to Committee be
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The program and maintenance staff have
Carlberg Jackson and gave their thoughtsmeton with
what
was required. Janna met with Ken Webber and set
up a plan for the time line for the study. Zt is
hoped to have a questionnaire out to
of the programs, public swimming and participants
to residents
in the surrounding areas by February 7th,
These will be returned by February 28th. A 1986.
information meeting will be held March 18th, public
at 7r30 p.m. in Hyde Creek, At this public 1986
information meeting various concepts will be
presented for public input. Then a report
will be
prepared for the Parks & Recreation Committee
to
view and comment on.
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