Lets look at it like this. Those trails that can easily be put back in, ca, those that cannot can be shelved until the following year if funding is there. In the meantime, we recieved 4 mil that can help the boost the bottom line and ensure we can groom what we have. I get the frustration, but in the end would anyone prefer this funding not be in place. From another perspective, this also shows that government has heard the voices of communities that rely on tourism and actually reacted. Lets look at the positive instead of the negative side of this.

Permit sales are way up in District 5. It amounts to a lot of money. If all the districts are up by a similar % then there will be a substancial offset for additional costs.  Also remember that if the OFSC hadn't sent additional $ to the Districts last spring the shortfall would have been much smaller. If there are no unexpectedly large expenditures required this season, I think they will be in decent shape by season end. JMHO

On paper there might not be - but in reality, too late to reverse things at this point.....look ahead to next year for some I guess. But does that 5 or so mil just a shortfall for this year, I think so, which means technically it is needed year after year, so permit increase has to happen or more grants, etc.....

Now that there is no trail closures I wonder if the OFSC gods will permit the ODSC to open and maintain the old Carden trails?   It’s brutal that a decision has been pushed back to mid-December.   Unless they knew this funding was coming.

So there are MOU's to catch up on, trails left without maintenance, fields unprepped, staking and signage to do in frozen ground, unpacked wet trails to navigate for the volunteer's, volunteer's that busted their asses and gave up their summer to work around the closure's and the list goes on.  All for a few dollars to float a broken system for a year and a big deficit within the next couple seasons again.  I agree with the opinion that the task is a little much to achieve this season.  Would have been nice to receive the financial assist to go along with the trail reduction plan. Thanks Doug, but it will most likely cost more to reopen lost trails and get equipment back up to par all at the risk of loosing the soul of the clubs. The Volunteers.  I'm still on my first morning coffee so my thought process may be a little scattered??