Item No. 7.2

Council Report: C 197/2020

Subject: Response to CQ#29-2020 - Options to Install a Curling Rink in an Arena

Reference:

Date to Council: 10/19/2020
Author: Samantha Magalas and Cory Elliot
Executive Initiatives Coordinator and Manager of Arena’s (A)
Parks, Recreation & Culture and Facilities
smagalas@citywindsor.ca/celliott@citywindsor.ca
Recreation and Culture
Report Date: 10/2/2020
Clerk’s File #: SR2020

To: Mayor and Members of City Council

Recommendation:

THAT the response to CQ 29-2020 BE RECEIVED for information.

Executive Summary:

Background:

The Roseland Golf and Curling Club has six (6) curling sheets. Curling registration normally opens at the end of September, and the season regularly runs from mid-October to late March, however on September 24, 2020, Roseland announced that due to COVID-19 and the necessity to social distance and limit indoor gatherings, the 2020/2021 winter curling season would be cancelled.

On Monday September 28, 2020, Councillor Kaschak asked the following question:

“That Administration prepare a report on an option to move the only City curling operation to one of the indoor City rinks/arenas. As the City is the provider of all other ice facilities in the community, an amalgamation/consolidation would make sense for the City to be the keeper curling as well. We have already seen this work efficiently when Curling Canada hosted the National Curling Event at the WFCU Arena a number of years ago. I ask that due to time constraints and a potentially abbreviated upcoming curling season, that Council be provided this report by the October 19, 2020 Council Meeting please.”

This report is in response to that question.