Town approves new boiler for AGT Centre

EAGLE STAFF

Councillors have approved buying a new boiler for the AGT Centre.

The town recently replaced another boiler that heats the dressing rooms on the south side of the arena and the area with the ice resurfacing machine.

The new boiler will replace one that had provided heat and hot water to the east hallway and its dressing rooms, Amanda Bors, the town’s acting chief administrator, told councillors during their Dec. 1 meeting. Staff re-routed pipes to send heat to the area from a boiler that covers the lobby and west hallway, “but it’s not keeping up,” Bors said.

A vent motor, “that we are at least three months away from getting,” failed, she said. It can’t be repaired locally, and the boiler was “not a common brand,” she added.

The one being replaced can be saved as a spare, Mayor Trevor Hay said.

“It’s crazy,” councillor Greg Carlson said about the need to replace the entire boiler instead of just the vent motor to keep the area warm in the short term.

“Very frustrating,” added Kimiko Otterspoor.

The replacement boiler is in Saskatoon, “and they do stock parts for them, right now,” Bors said.