Meadow Lake City Hall. (file photo/meadowlakeNOW Staff)

By Nicole Reis

Community Survey

City seeking public input in developing new recreation facility

Feb 25, 2020 | 1:46 PM

The City of Meadow Lake is seeking public input to gauge the community’s interest in developing a new multipurpose recreation facility.

Robin Mitchell, Parks and Recreation manager told meadowlakeNOW, the project would not replace the arena or aquatic centre.

“We want to be able to generate and use it 12 months of the year,” he said. “That’s the only way we can make it sustainable and meet the needs of the community.”

The facility is intended to be multi-programmable and multi-usable. The venue would have the capacity to host, as an example, an indoor track or a large community room which could be quartered-off to run sports tournaments or, formal and corporate events.

“The city wants to make sure it’s done in a fiscally responsible manner,” he said. “The venue has to be functionally built and it has to meet the majority of needs of community members.”

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The city recognizes the space needs to be easily transformable so the the facility can adapt to future change.

“The last thing the city would want to see is us putting together a large venue and just making arbitrary decisions as to what is programmed or what the facilities look like,” Mitchell said. “I think it’s key in order for the success and future sustainability, is for us to be able to get and seek input from those people who would be utilizing it.”

Mitchell offered the services of city employees to collaborate with any user groups or organizations in the region to hear additional input.

“At the end of the day, we really need to hear what the residents want to see, what they’re prepared to pay for it in terms of a user-pay model and an understanding that recreation in any municipal backyard is something we should be doing and putting out there.”

Mitchell said city administrators want to hear from the R.M., Flying Dust, Meadow Lake and residents from the surrounding communities to understand what the facility could look like.

The survey will be available until the end of March and can be accessed here.

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nicole.reis@jpbg.ca

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