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Vancouver Park Board to hold meeting on community centre revenue proposal
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
Sara Norman | Email news tips to sara.norman@corusent.com
2/4/2013

The Vancouver Park Board will be holding a special public meeting Monday night on a plan to make community centre revenue across the city more equitable.

The plan would see community centres pooling surpluses to help out a handful of centres in less affluent neighbourhoods.

Park Board Staff say patrons of those centres can't afford to pay the same rates charged at other centres, creating a discrepancy in revenue.

Staff will provide an update on the plan at the meeting.

But some community centres say revenue sharing won't work.

The Hillcrest Community Centre Association says they've collected fifty-thousand dollars to fight the proposal.

That centre is located near Queen Elizabeth Park, and was used as the curling venue for Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Games. 


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  1. ChrisM_18 posted on 02/04/2013 06:16 AM
    I'm with the community centre on this one. Socialism doesn't elevate the have nots -it just drags the rest down to their level!
  2. GlenP_2 posted on 02/04/2013 11:41 AM
    In all fairness we need an in-site shooting gallery in every neighbourhood also, maybe attached to the community centres. The lack of locations restricts their mobilty and may contravene their charter of rights. Come on Moonbeam - get on it.
  3. fredb_7066 posted on 02/04/2013 01:14 PM
    what a crazy world
    the people at Hillcrest Community Centre got about 90 million to build for the olympics ....now they cant help some fellow humans that just want to use a rec center
    what has happened to people?
  4. ArtozeR posted on 02/04/2013 02:48 PM
    Speaking of socialism...aren't the Boards funded by the City, the staffing, the upkeep of the building, janitors, heat, light...or do they pay for that all through fees. I am confused because it sounds like the boards, who seem to work hard, get all the overhead paid for, and then spend the profits, geez when I was volunteering for the hockey and soccer clubs, I wish we had that situation. How does it work in other Cities? Are they all set up like vancouver?
  5. AlfredO posted on 02/04/2013 03:40 PM
    I think the richer community centres could share the extra money they have. Community minded people are likely not unapproachable to that. I don't think the money should go into a general account because the park board doesn't seem to have much in the way of brains with how they spend money. How many people have seen or participated in bicycle polo at Grandview Park? Who's the geniuses behind that?
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