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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,

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