Jordee Reid, president of the Yellowknife Dog Trotters Association, made a final presentation to council on Aug. 26 as to why the city should sell their communal dog lot to the association. Ultimately, council voted in the associations favour after months of debate. - Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada) 
Yellowknife dog trotters will stay in Kam Lake
After months of debate, and decades of negotiations of turmoil with the city of Yellowknife, the Yellowknife Dog Trotters Association (YDTA) will finally get a chance to own its communal lot in Kam Lake.
During a Aug. 17 city council meeting, the mayor and councilors heard final presentations from Jordee Reid, president of the YDTA, and Peter Curran, a concerned resident of Kam Lake, before finally voting to let YDTA purchase the 191 Curry Dr. lot.
“There are still negotiations to take place but I think a lot of us are happy that it’s come through,” said Reid.
“It’s like a big sigh of relief that now we can move forward. We’ve been in limbo since the ten year lease was brought up in 2007. We were always uncertain. This is officially our home now and we can finally treat it that way.”
Despite initially asking for the lot for zero dollars as an act of reconciliation, the YDTA will now enter a payment plan with the city so that they may acquire the lot for the appraised value minus work done to the land.
In a previous meeting the lot, which it at capacity with 250 dogs, was appraised at $360,000.
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