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Board directors questioned if the National Capital Commission should be in the camping business while considering a proposed $5.9-million upgrade to the campground at Lac Philippe.
“I don’t think our core business is campgrounds,” Brian Coburn said during a board meeting Thursday.
“When we make a choice to spend $6 million, we make a choice not to spend it on something else,” Carol Loughrey said.
But Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin, defending the NCC’s interest in camping, pointed out the agency is also in the skating business, which has become one of the most significant NCC programs.
Board chairman Marc Seaman agreed with director Bob Plamondon that doing nothing isn’t an option.
The condition of the Lac Philippe campground first came to the NCC board in January 2016, but the commission asked staff to compile more information on the visitor statistics and campground operations.
There are 244 campsites and three group sites at the campground. The sites are fairly basic; they don’t have water, electrical and sewer services, but most campers surveyed by the NCC expect to have drinkable water and electricity on their sites.
The campground has had an occupancy rate between 40 per cent and 50 per cent over the past three years. Things improved last summer.
On the financial front, the campground experiences an operational loss, but the NCC is projecting to at least break even by the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
The NCC toyed with the ideas of closing the campground, privatizing it or doing nothing, but staff recommended modernizing the sites to increase visitors and rake in $386,000 in added annual revenue.
Most of the board voted for more research. It approved spending $200,000 on a design, financial and feasibility study, but it will take another year to complete.
The board was also scheduled to consider a “museum park” plan for the Canadian Science and Technology Museum and a landscape plan for the Government Conference Centre across from the Chateau Laurier. The meeting will last into the afternoon.
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“I don’t think our core business is campgrounds,” Brian Coburn said during a board meeting Thursday.
“When we make a choice to spend $6 million, we make a choice not to spend it on something else,” Carol Loughrey said.
But Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin, defending the NCC’s interest in camping, pointed out the agency is also in the skating business, which has become one of the most significant NCC programs.
Board chairman Marc Seaman agreed with director Bob Plamondon that doing nothing isn’t an option.
The condition of the Lac Philippe campground first came to the NCC board in January 2016, but the commission asked staff to compile more information on the visitor statistics and campground operations.
There are 244 campsites and three group sites at the campground. The sites are fairly basic; they don’t have water, electrical and sewer services, but most campers surveyed by the NCC expect to have drinkable water and electricity on their sites.
The campground has had an occupancy rate between 40 per cent and 50 per cent over the past three years. Things improved last summer.
On the financial front, the campground experiences an operational loss, but the NCC is projecting to at least break even by the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
The NCC toyed with the ideas of closing the campground, privatizing it or doing nothing, but staff recommended modernizing the sites to increase visitors and rake in $386,000 in added annual revenue.
Most of the board voted for more research. It approved spending $200,000 on a design, financial and feasibility study, but it will take another year to complete.
The board was also scheduled to consider a “museum park” plan for the Canadian Science and Technology Museum and a landscape plan for the Government Conference Centre across from the Chateau Laurier. The meeting will last into the afternoon.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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