Metropolis of Brandon Parks & Recreation Providers is advising that the Sportsplex Area ice plant won’t be operational for the Summer season 2023 and Fall 2023/Winter 2024 hockey and skating seasons.
Background: The Sportsplex Area was closed on March 2nd resulting from security considerations with the ammonia ice plant. Since that point, Administration has labored with Security and Well being, and Contractors to carry out an evaluation of the plant. They recognized deficiencies and proposed repairs that will be required to soundly function the plant.
A deliberate recreation wants evaluation and conceptual design for the Sportsplex Area can be going down all through the summer season and fall months. The evaluation will decide whether or not group want is for a renewed ice plant and enviornment, or an alternate redevelopment, comparable to indoor turf and sport courtroom.
Replace: A bid alternative for repairs and replacements of the ice plant has lately closed, and Administration now has a greater understanding of the price and timeline for these repairs. Initially, it was anticipated that the repairs can be accomplished by the tip of August. Nevertheless, an additional deficiency within the ice plant has been recognized and, as such, the date for the completion of repairs has been delayed. At greatest, repairs can be accomplished in January 2024, and would carry a major price.
As well as, the RFP for the recreation wants evaluation and conceptual design for the Sportsplex Area has lately closed and has been awarded. Part 1 of the evaluation contains analysis, group and stakeholder engagement in addition to costing which is able to decide the course of future improvement. Part 1 is about to be accomplished in September 2023. In Part 2, consultants will full conceptual design and additional costing evaluation.
As a result of prolonged timeline for finishing ice plant repairs, and the conflicting wants evaluation timeline, it was concluded that we are going to postpone repairs to the ice plant till at the very least September 2023 when part 1 of the wants evaluation has been accomplished. At the moment, we’ll re-evaluate the enterprise case for repairing the present ice plant considering the end result of the wants evaluation (absolutely new ice plant, or alternate recreation amenity).
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(Metropolis of Brandon PSA)
