{"id":1825,"date":"2010-03-11T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:54:00","slug":"brock-welland-announce-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/brock-welland-announce-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock, Welland announce partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1824\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1824\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1824\" title=\"Brock Welland MOU signing\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/brock-welland-mousigning.jpg\" alt=\"brock-welland-mousigning\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welland Mayor Damian Goulbourne, left, and Jack Lightstone sign a Memorandum of Understanding.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock University and the City of Welland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide a framework for how they will work together on future projects.<\/p>\n<p>In signing the document March 10 at Welland City Hall, Brock President Jack Lightstone and Welland Mayor Damian Goulbourne also announced the partnership\u2019s first initiative and a significant step forward.<\/p>\n<p>The University is agreeing in principle to a long term lease of space to locate the Brock University Human Performance Centre in the Welland International Flatwater Centre. The Brock Centre will operate non-academic, revenue-generating activities that support the work of Brock\u2019s Faculty of Applied Health Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The MOU establishes an understanding between both parties with respect to five key items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a feasibility analysis<\/li>\n<li>site identification and development<\/li>\n<li>financial collaboration<\/li>\n<li>public relations and communications<\/li>\n<li>government relations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFor Welland, this is a true milestone,\u201d says Mayor Goulbourne. \u201cWe are entering not just into a stronger relationship with Brock University, we are entering a new chapter of our own history, a chapter of opportunity and achievement. This will put our community in a positive spotlight and be a lasting legacy of the games in our community for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project has wonderful potential for Welland and Niagara on a number of levels \u2014 from providing health and wellness support for our children, to creating a marvelous sport and training facility that will help make Welland a nationally and internationally known destination point,\u201d says President Lightstone. \u201cIt is a terrific example of collaboration and progress, and we at Brock are proud to be partners with the people of Welland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick link:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2487028\" target=\"_blank\">Brock taking up digs at flatwater centre \u2014 <em>Welland Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorandum of understanding includes agreeing in principle to locate the Brock University Human Performance Centre in Welland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}