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Vernon city councillors were seeing spots at the special meeting at Lakers Clubhouse on Thursday.
The city's director of community infrastructure and development, Kim Flick, provided council with an overview of the Council Strategic Plan 2019 to date. All of the projects that are on the city's radar were listed on large printouts, and councillors were directed to place a coloured dot on their top 15 priority items.
There were more than 50 items divided among various headers: recreation and parks, affordable housing, vibrant downtown, organization priorities, regional relationships and sustainability priorities.
By far the most "stickered" items — providing a notably unscientific snapshot — were related to the pursuit of a new Active Living Centre and the plan to to redevelop the 35 acres of land at the former Kin Race Track, a likely location to host the new centre.
Five councillors and the mayor were present — Dalvir Nahal did not attend the meeting — and five of the six said the work to move a new rec centre forward was a priority.
Council was directed to formally provide direction to administration on its top 15 priorities for 2020.
This will form the basis of administration's Action Plan 2020 and any related budget requests will be brought forward for council's consideration during the 2020 budgeting process, Flick said in her memorandum to council for the meeting.
Doug Ross, the city's director of recreation services, said the requests for proposals for the feasibility study for a new Active Living Centre went out Thursday.
"The RFP was released yesterday (Wednesday) and we will be reviewing the submissions in July"," Ross said during his presentation to council.
"Following an extensive public consultation process we will be developing the draft and final results of the feasibility study. The results and a final recommendation are scheduled to be brought forward in the spring."
"Ideally, recreation services would continue to move forward with the process and start work with the regional district on a potential referendum to develop a new Active Living Centre. This, of course, is dependent on the direction from council and would also require unanimous approval from our community partners"." Ross said.
Based on the timelines suggested in the strategic planning document, a new rec centre would be opened no earlier than 2022.
