By Gazette Staff
April 13th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
The City of Burlington is seeking a qualified consultant with demonstrated expertise in municipal sport policy, recreation facility allocation or community sport system planning.
The consultant is expected to have experience conducting consultations/engagement with interested parties to support the review, update, and development of sport related policies, and a strong understanding of municipal recreation operations and equity-based frameworks.
This project will focus on ensuring that the City’s approach to allocating recreation and sport facilities is equitable, transparent, sustainable, and responsive to current and future community needs.
Better late than never – maybe in time for the swimming clubs to create their 2027 schedules?
Five firms are looking into the opportunity:
Beam Group Inc.
Deloitte LLP
KPMG LLP
Optimus SBR Inc.
Sierra Planning and Management
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Wow just wow. Apparently, we don’t have competent, qualified city employees. What was the average staff salary increase again last year? Replace them and the entire council.
Typical move to call in a consultant when you already know what you should do, have staff that can execute that and keep it simple, but don’t want to apologize and need some “expert” to complicate the solution but make it “professional”.
I’m not impressed with this waste of money, but then not surprised.
Here we go again. The councilors and staff did not protect pool space to accommodate the swimmers who live in Burlington. Now they want to spend more money on consultants to try a find away out of their mismanagement. No wonder our tax increases far exceed inflation.
Jim Barnett
The swimming clubs don’t need this to create their 2027 schedule. They signed four year contracts. At least that’s what the Gazette reported:
https://burlingtongazette.ca/devilrays-get-18-hours-of-city-pool-time-how-much-did-the-hamilton-based-ghca-get/
Well if KPMG and Deloitte are bidding you know this is 7 0r 8 figure$$$