Sign the online petition at www.saveorkus.com and send this e-mail to other
skateboarders, family and friends so they do the same. URGENT!
Petition to save Orkus
(skatepark), an initiative from
Orkus users
To all Montreal municipal elected officials,
We are Montreal skateboarders, inline skaters and
bmx amateurs, sympathizers, parents or are issued from the industry. We are the
most interested in regard to the best indoor skatepark solution for Montreal.
We hereby want to strongly support Orkus skatepark, a park created for
skateboarders by skateboarders. We are asking you to help Orkus. Presently,
the city is at the midst of giving away 2,5 million dollars (besides a few more
millions coming the provincial and federal governments) to the Taz project.
There is no doubt that the financial help required to keep Orkus open, is by far
inferior to the amount of money asked by the Taz. Therefore, for the sake of
Montreal’s skateboarders and Montreal taxpayers, we are asking you to help our
skatepark (Orkus) instead of pursuing in supporting the Taz.
With 400
000$ (the amount given in 2006 to develop Le Taz), the city could have financed
more than the construction of a huge skatepark. Too complex will you say?
Agree, the city could have offered free sessions for all Montreal skaters and
other users of its installations for at least a year (if not more) in an already
existing skatepark. We are sorry to let you know that the investments done up
to this day have not been used efficiently (as Le Taz project goes forward,
serious doubts exist concerning its management) and that is why we are
contacting you. Fortunately, it is not too late for the city to correct the
problem. It is time that things change and that our youth have the services for
which Montreal taxpayers are contributing.
Why not help an already existing organisation
instead of developping something (Le Taz) that already exists in Montreal (the
only indoor skatepark, Orkus of course)?
Respectfully yours,
