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Originally Posted by officedweller
Here's the Dragon Boat BC website:
http://dragonboatbc.ca/
The Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival Society runs the Dragon Zone Paddling Club, as well as hosting the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in False Creek, a number of smaller regattas during the year, as well as organizing the Steveston and Seattle Dragon Boat Races.
The festivals have fundraising events -
http://dragonboatbc.ca/legacy-programs/fundraising-gala/
http://dragonboatbc.ca/legacy-programs/gala-supporters/
http://seattledragonboatfestival.net/supporters/
http://stevestondragonboatfestival.ca/
as well as school, corporate and community-oriented programs:
http://dragonboatbc.ca/legacy-programs/milton-k-wong-legacy-project/
http://dragonzone.ca/for-groups/school-programs/
http://dragonzone.ca/corporate/corporate-programs/
http://dragonzone.ca/for-juniors/youth-and-kid-programs/
This Community Amenity Contribution is really no different than the CAC funds directed to other specific programs - such as the VSO rehearsal facility at Capitol, the kids ArtStarts program at R&R, the Contemporary Art Museum at Mondrian, arts and cultural space at Woodward's, etc., etc..
It seems quite rare that a CAC go towards a sports-related amenity, rather than a cultural one.
And how about that $1.2 million spinning chandelier under Granville Bridge for Vancouver House?
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/03/05...ng-chandelier-to-go-with-twisting-tower/ |
Just to clarify, every major rezoning in the City of Vancouver such as Vancouver House is required to on top of the DCL's, CAC's have a Public Art Contribution to the project as well. The Chandelier comes from the Public Art Contribution, not the CAC Contribution, very stark difference.
If the impression my post gave was Dragon Boat BC does not fundraise, I apologize that was not the intent of my post, they certainly do fundraise for operational requirements. HOWEVER with most organizations, including the Art Gallery, VSO etc there is a component of INTERNAL fundraising that is always done to go towards new facilities. My issue, comments, problem is the size of the CAC that is going to the boathouse with no FACILITY fundraising campaign done by the Dragon Boat Community. Dragon Boating has been around for a very long time in Vancouver and in that very long time there has been nothing done as an organization to fundraise for a facility? OHHHH whoops we need a CAC to pay for the entire facility? - I've never been involved in a sporting organization that got grant money, whether it be Lottery Funds, Municipal Funds or other that was not required to fundraise a least a percentage of the capital costs for a new facility.
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