Review of City of Toronto Ice time and Cricket Field Allocation and Booking Policy - by Councillor James Pasternak, seconded by Councillor Jennifer McKelvie

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2024-02-06 · Toronto City Council · amended

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City Council on February 6 and 7, 2024, adopted the following: 1. City Council direct the Acting General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to conduct an internal review of the booking/allocation policies and operating procedures for ice time, cricket field, and other sports usage as appropriate, to determine whether City of Toronto policies and operating procedures provide fair and equitable access to sports and

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recreation assets, particularly for start-up female groups and other users, make any operational adjustments necessary to implement the findings of the review, report to Council on any policy changes required, bring forward any budget impacts to the 2025 budget process, and offer to brief all Members of Council on their progress implementing this direction by December 2024.

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The ice use and cricket use booking/allocation process is a coordinated system to schedule recreational and sports space usage at indoor arenas and outdoor rinks and outdoor fields. Much of the allocation of such City of Toronto sports assets secured by established groups and leagues that have been booking such space over a long period of time. In recent years, women and girls have formed leagues in various sports, such as ice hockey and cricket.

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While this participation is a healthy development for individual participants and the city as a whole, these groups sometimes experience difficulty in securing ice and field time. Ideally this review includes strengthening polices preventing of the over booking of ice pads and fields; creating a more elastic booking window for various groups; leveraging partnerships with local school boards; reviewing policies that keep new groups and/or girls groups from being full participants on the City of Toronto recreational assets. It is time for a review of how ice and field times are booked and whether through strategical positioning of time allocation more groups can access city sports assets. The last review of the city wide ice allocation process took place in 2012.

Staff recommended

Councillor James Pasternak, seconded by Councillor Jennifer McKelvie, recommends that: 1. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to conduct a review of the booking/allocation policies for ice time, cricket field, and other sports usage as appropriate, to determine whether City of Toronto policies provide fair and equitable access to sports and recreation assets, particularly for start-up female groups and other users, and report back by December 2024.

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