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Printed Oct 12, 2023 • Final up to date Oct 13, 2023 • 4 minute learn
A $125,000 dedication from the City, and a fundraising marketing campaign with a $125,000 aim will cowl the associated fee to rejuvenate the 60-year-old Southampton Cenotaph in readiness for Remembrance Day 2025. Though this rendering reveals the illuminated cross, it may be eliminated to the Southampton Cemetery. Picture by The City of Saugeen Shores
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With City endorsement and a dedication of a $125,000 contribution, the fundraising can formally start to assist rejuvenate the Southampton Cenotaph.
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Remembrance Day 2025 in Southampton shall be marked at a renewed Cenotaph following City councillors’ endorsement of a $125,000 public fundraising marketing campaign – which has already generated $90,000 – and councillors’ path to employees to incorporate a most contribution of $125,000 for consideration throughout November price range talks.
Final month the Cenotaph Committee, following intensive analysis and public session, offered council with its imaginative and prescient for a rejuvenated Cenotaph to switch the getting old cairn-style construction, in-built 1962, that has points with crumbling brick and electrical considerations with the illuminated cross.
In a follow-up report back to councillors Oct. 11, Kristan Shrider, the City’s director of neighborhood companies and operations mentioned the Cenotaph Committee’s aim is to resume the commemorative monument and surrounding boulevard area.
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“It said the rejuvenated Cenotaph would be the setting for proper reflection, honour, and paying respect to those who served,” Shrider mentioned, including the rejuvenated area would supply an accessible venue to encourage schooling and categorical gratitude and remembrance all year long.
Shrider mentioned the subsequent step is to incorporate the consulting duties for the Cenotaph Rejuvenation Venture throughout the Southampton Excessive Road Streetscape Plan within the 2024 marketing strategy to deal with public and neighborhood associate engagement, detailed design, specification improvement, and mission price estimate. The City would oversee the administration of the mission, with assist from the Cenotaph Committee.
Shrider mentioned questions on particular mission parts, design particulars, lighting, and scale could be handled by improvement of the detailed design and specs by the marketing consultant.
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Coun. John Divinski mentioned it felt just like the mission was being delayed unnecessarily, or “bumped” to 2025 and mentioned he may see shifting forward with building in 2024.
“In my world, it is my wish that this rejuvenated Cenotaph would be ready in a year’s time…not this Remembrance Day but the following Remembrance Day,” Divinski mentioned.
He mentioned there’s been sufficient public session by the streetscape plan and the 2 initiatives have to be saved separate so that they each don’t fail if one is delayed.
City CAO Kara Van Myall famous the Cenotaph Committee’s personal acknowledged aim is to have the work performed by 2025. She mentioned there could be economies of scale to do rent one marketing consultant to do the detailed design and building drawings in 2024.
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Deputy mayor Diane Huber mentioned she doesn’t view the proposed timing as slowing down, however a possibility to do it proper.
“This is a legacy investment that will be for the next 100 years of Southampton, 100 years of Saugeen Shores – we need to do that whole intersection properly to have it be what it needs to be and what it could be and should be…” Huber mentioned, referring to the Cenotaph’s location on the nook of Excessive and Huron Streets.
Huber additionally requested if employees’s advice to endorse the request for price range consideration was any totally different than a referral to price range.
Mayor Luke Charbonneau mentioned what was “unique” in regards to the advice was that they’re trying a 12 months out on the 2025 marketing strategy, however as a result of the Cenotaph Committee needs to fundraise now, Council is being requested to endorse the mission now to present them fundraising “certainty” because the 2025 price range gained’t be debated for an additional 18 months.
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“You possibly can use the language ‘refer to the 2025 budget” I suppose, but it is more than that – it’s an endorsement,” Charbonneau mentioned, including councillors want to grasp what they’re making a “commitment.”
“Once we’ve endorsed it this committee is going to start fundraising and it would be, well, not fair of us for sort of backtrack on this $125,000…” Charbonneau mentioned, later including that to take action could be “hard to walk back, politically.”
Coun. Bud Halpin, noting that it may take as much as a 12 months to order and obtain the required granite, requested if the order may very well be positioned now.
Director Shrider mentioned they’d be clever to finalise the conceptual design, together with the foundations, earlier than they positioned an order for granite.
Through the Open Discussion board session previous to the assembly, Southampton Cenotaph Committee member John Willetts appealed to councillors for a “green light” to formally kick-off the fundraising marketing campaign.
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He famous {that a} 2025 completion date for a brand new Cenotaph with a proper November 11 Remembrance Day, would coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of formation of the Royal Canadian Legion. He additionally famous that it may take a 12 months after ordering the required granite.
Asking for endorsement of the fundraising marketing campaign and a money dedication, Willetts mentioned they’re prepared.
“We would like to move forward with this as it will take at least a year to have a new monument ordered as it is a highly specialized type of build,” he mentioned.
In associated information….
The Southampton one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary Legacy Fund has made an $80,000 donation to the Southampton Cenotaph renovation mission.
Chairman Dunc McCallum mentioned, the Legacy Fund was impressed by Cenotaph Committee chair John Willett’s enthusiastic strategy, particularly after 5 years of pushing the mission.
“We established that the Cenotaph renovation meets 150th Legacy Fund criteria, and committed to support the project,” McCallum mentioned in an Oct. 11 information launch.
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