Sport Council seeks funding for Games
A local group is expected to ask for the City’s support in bringing the 2020 Alberta Summer Games to Lethbridge during City Council’s regular meeting today.
Representatives from the Lethbridge Sport Council and Alberta Sports Development CentreSouthwest are expected to present a request for $250,000 to go towards the 2020 Alberta Summer Games, along with a request for a letter of intent from Council to host the games. The funding request includes $150,000 cash and $100,000 inkind from the Major Community Event Grant Budget.
The Alberta Summer Games hosts 3,500 athletes, coaches, and technical officials over four days in late July. Lethbridge has not hosted the games since 2012.
Derek St. Jean, Chair for the Youth Advisory Council, is expected to present a revised terms of reference for approval and discuss the group’s four-year strategic plan.
The presentation is also expected to include highlights of work done by the group over the past year and a new mission statement.
The YAC was created in 2007 out of the Lethbridge Youth Summit and works to address issues that affect young people in Lethbridge on a daily basis.
A public hearing on the adoption of the London Road Area Redevelopment Plan is scheduled for today, submitted by Ross Kilgour, Community Planner. The plan is intended to co-ordinate neighbourhood conservation and set policies for future redevelopment in the area.
A second public hearing has been set to address a proposed amendment to the Land Use Bylaw submitted by Jeff Greene, Director of Planning and Development. The amendment is to revise the current definition of “Manufacturing General” in the Land Use Bylaw to allow for a training facility to be developed in the same industrial districts where “Manufacturing, General” is already an allowable land use.
Council could pass second and final readings of these bylaws following their respective public hearings.
Today’s regular meeting of City Council takes place in council chambers in City Hall and begins at 1 p.m. Council meetings are open to the public.
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