Good afternoon folks. I hope you are enjoying the rest and looking forward to the new season! The Executive is diligently working on the upcoming season and we need some info…

I would like to CONFIRM that your team is returning for this coming year. I need an email from each team to express their interest. We are looking at possible expansion but want to know what we are working with first.

Please send this to me by Sunday February 7th!

If I have not heard from you by then, I will assume that you are no longer interested in putting a team in the league and your spot will be filled.

Thank you,
Bruce

I got this in my Inbox just before Christmas but held off on reporting about it until I had a better understanding of exactly how it would affect us. I’m not really sure I know now what it’s affect will be, but here goes …

Information Bulletin

To: City of Guelph Outdoor Facility Users
From: Murray Cameron– Manager of Parklands and Greenways
Department: Operations

RE: 2010 Operating Budget

We write to follow up on our information bulletin of November 25, 2009, wherein we advised that Council was considering a number of rate increases in an effort to deal with a difficult budget. We thank those who took the time to appear as a delegation, or to contact the Mayor and Council in this regard.

In preparation for the budget staff restructured our proposed rates and fees, and we are attaching a copy of the new rates and fees with this bulletin. In our view these new rates continue to represent good value and our very competitive with the rates in surrounding communities.

A decrease in the Youth Subsidy from 47.5% to 40% was considered by Council, but was rejected, so approved youth groups will continue to enjoy the youth subsidy throughout 2010.

Please be aware that although these rates come into effect on January 1, 2010, all existing signed contracts will be honoured at the stated rate.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Murray Cameron
Manager
Parklands and Greenways
Operations

Also attached to that message was a Fee Schedule that had some rather disconcerting information.
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Ok, so I’m a little late with my New Year’s wishes but, judging by the recent upswing in visitors to the site, it looks like a new season is again on people’s minds.

You may have noticed that the Forum is no longer available – and thus the Free Agents list. There were some issues with compatibility between the main site and the forum, as well as a lot of attempts at SPAM from Russia (I can pick those ones out the easiest by the .ru email address), so I thought it best to drop the whole thing until I could come up with something a little better. I will be adding a Free Agents list in the next couple of weeks, but there are some other maintenance issues I need to take care of before that will happen.

Having said that – if the site somehow goes missing or you notice some problems with it in the next little bit (here’s hoping that doesn’t happen, but …) rest assured that it will be back.

In the meantime, for those interested in putting a team into either league, you can go to the Contact page for that league and fill out the form with your request.