City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

PARKS, RECREATION & CULTURE

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

Sport Surrey played host to two international and two provincial sporting events. Despite the cancellations of sport hosting

• The annual Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival was hosted as an adapted virtual conference in 2020/2021. The conference included participants from all over Canada. Parts of the conference were shot here within the City of Surrey, to highlight facilities and the return of the tournament competition in the coming years; • The Light Where You Live campaign launched in 2020 encouraged Surrey residents to light up their homes and share on social media. Residents were #lightwhereyoulive to showcase their holiday lights. This initiative is a spin of off “Love Where You Live” and its intent is to promote civic beautification and celebration over the winter when the Love Where You Live campaign is not running; and • Surrey Civic Theatres completed its 2019-2020 Surrey Spectacular season of 25 presentations with the best attendance and ticket sales in 10 years. called on to “help make winter brighter”. Over this four-week campaign people used the

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opportunities in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sport Surrey was able to host numerous virtual sport development opportunities for local clubs and residents; • Sport Surrey was successful in the bidding of the 2021 Women’s Soccer Aboriginal Cup and the 2022 North American Indigenous Football Cup. The estimated economic impact for • Sport Surrey welcomed the Vancouver Canucks Alumni to our home at the City of Surrey’s North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex. With close to 100 members, the Canucks Alumni is made up of former NHL players, former Canucks coaches and staff. The partnership offers the potential for large-scale national and international events hosted through the Canucks Alumni; our City would be approximately $300,000 in 2021, with a projected impact of $450,000 in 2022;

ECOSYSTEMS

• The Parks Division planted over 3,400 street and park trees and 30,035 native plants (including 4,475 trees and seedlings) in 2020; • The City acquired more than 7 hectares of parkland in 2020, including

• The City sold over 700 shade trees to residents as part of its first online tree sale; • The second year of Surrey’s Love Where You Live campaign was a resounding success. Due to the restrictions brought on by COVID-19

neighborhood parks and nature preserves across the city; and

health measures, the campaign pivoted to a social-media driven

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