Fund fields. Free up gyms.
Left in
the cold.
How the proposed City of Calgary budget treats court sports
When soccer and field sports have no indoor space in winter, they move into our gyms. Fewer fields means fewer courts for basketball.
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Fields for them.
Courts for us.
Calgary is a winter city. Basketball isn't competing with soccer — we're all competing for the same few indoor spaces. Investing in year-round field houses is the fastest way to give basketball its courts back.
proposed 2027 property tax increase
Then 10, 7.7 and 6 percent — and still nowhere near enough indoor space for the sports that depend on it.
gym, many sports
With nowhere else to go each winter, soccer, rugby and football teams book the same school gyms basketball needs.
fields = more courts
Every new indoor field house moves field sports off the hardwood and gives court time back to basketball.
Sources: City of Calgary proposed 2027–2030 budget; LiveWire Calgary and Global News, November 10.