Beaches Lacrosse Club seeks to overturn summer ice decision at Jan. 13 meeting of Ted Reeve Community Arena Board
By AL.AN SHACKLETON
The Beaches Lacrosse Club will make an appeal to have a decision regarding summer ice at the main rink of the Ted Reeve Community Arena overturned at next week’s meeting of the arena’s community board.
The lacrosse club is asking that a decision made at the Dec. 2 board meeting to keep ice on the main rink during the summer months be reversed as it would severely impact the club’s ability to offer a viable local box lacrosse program this coming spring and summer.
The next meeting of the Ted Reeve Community Arena Board is Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the arena, 175 Main St., at 7 p.m.
Following the City of Toronto Act rules for community boards, the meeting will be open to the public.
Chris Kidd, from the Beaches Lacrosse Club, told Beach Metro Community News that the club has filed a complaint with both Toronto’s Integrity Commissioner and the Ombudsman Toronto office regarding the December decision by the board.
As part of the December decision, space for the lacrosse club in the Ted Reeve bubble was made available during the summer. However, Kidd said the bubble does not meet the lacrosse club’s needs for hosting tournaments, spectators or dressing room facilities.
Earlier, Beaches-East York Councillor Brad Bradford, who is a member of the Ted Reeve Community Arena Board but was not at the Dec. 2 meeting, said he is working to achieve an outcome in which all user groups feel heard and respected.
Those planning on attending on Jan. 13 should be aware that community board meetings can go into a closed session (not open to the public) when discussing certain matters.
Those matters include personal matters identifying an individual (including employees); labour relations or employee negotiations; litigation or potential litigation (including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the City of Toronto or the local board); the receiving of advice subject to solicitor-client privilege; the security of the property or local board; acquisition or disposition of land; and “a matter in respect of which a council, board, committee or other body may hold a closed meeting under another Act”.
If a portion of a meeting is to be closed, the board must state the general nature of the matter to be considered in public before going to a closed session. “Any formal motions or votes resulting from those discussions must be conducted in public session,” according to the city’s rules.
