Just like many a homeowner doing renovations, the city of Port Coquitlam is making a late upgrade to its recreation complex makeover.
The city’s finance committee has agreed to spend an estimated $110,000 to do the rough-ins for a feature dressing room in the hope the city will be able to find a team or sport group willing to share the estimated construction costs of $300,000 to $400,000.
Coun. Glenn Pollock, chair of the city’s healthy community committee, proposed the concept earlier this year when he realized it wasn’t included in the original plans. He said he thought it would be a given that such a dressing room would be part of the redevelopment, so didn’t bring it forward until recently.
“You want to have a feature dressing room,” Pollock told The Tri-City News. “That will certainly be an asset to our Jr. A lacrosse club [Port Coquitlam Saints] and if we ever get a Junior B [hockey] club that would be an asset too.”
Pollock has approached various groups and has found some interest but none could contribute enough financially. He said a Jr. B hockey team was interested but the expiration of its current lease is not imminent.
A staff report to the finance committee warned adding the rough-ins would reduce the project’s contingency fund, so if something unanticipated arises later on, it could mean having to find money elsewhere.
