McCormick Playground Arena
Facility-operated site including Board of Management meeting minutes.
Completeness
- Document shelf: 20 rows (20 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
- Backgrounder: on file
- Strategy-evolution brief: not written yet
- Custody audit: 19 of 20 row(s) audited, 17 flagged
- Last verified: 2026-08-06 · this org has had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)
Endpoints
- Website
- Open data: checked — none found
- API: checked — none found
- RSS: checked — none found
- Newsroom: checked — none found
- FOI / access requests: checked — none found
Document shelf (20 rows)
| Year | Type | Title | Archive status | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Financial statements | missing — searched, not found | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: repointed-2026-08-06-off-AG-cover-memo-to-own-attachment |
| 2023 | Financial statements | missing — searched, not found | archived | |
| 2021 | Financial statements | missing — searched, not found | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: repointed-2026-08-06-off-AG-cover-memo-to-own-attachment |
| 2020 | Financial statements | 2020 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2021.AU10.10) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause |
| 2019 | Financial statements | 2019 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2020.AU6.10) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: stated in a council clause — ⚠️ still being checked:cover-memo-url-corrected-2026-08-06 |
| 2018 | Financial statements | missing — searched, not found | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-probed-backgroundfile-range-around-cover-memo-no-confident-per-org-attachment-match-found-cover-memo-retained |
| 2017 | Financial statements | 2017 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (Auditor General report June 28, 2018, Attachment 5) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: image-pdf-title-matched-via-search-index |
| 2016 | Financial statements | 2016 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2017.AU9.6) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: repointed-2026-08-06-off-AG-cover-memo-to-own-attachment |
| 2015 | Financial statements | 2015 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2016.AU6.5) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: stated in a council clause — ⚠️ still being checked:cover-memo-url-corrected-2026-08-06 |
| 2013 | Financial statements | 2013 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2014.AU16.7) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: stated in a council clause — ⚠️ still being checked:cover-memo-url-corrected-2026-08-06 |
| 2011 | Financial statements | 2011 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2012.AU8.3) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-probed-backgroundfile-range-around-cover-memo-no-confident-per-org-attachment-match-found-cover-memo-retained |
| 2009 | Financial statements | 2009 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2010.AU19.4) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-probed-backgroundfile-range-around-cover-memo-no-confident-per-org-attachment-match-found-cover-memo-retained |
| 2008 | Financial statements | 2008 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2009.AU13.4) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-probed-backgroundfile-range-around-cover-memo-no-confident-per-org-attachment-match-found-cover-memo-retained |
| 2007 | Financial statements | 2007 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2008.AU8.13) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: repointed-2026-08-06-off-AG-cover-memo-to-own-attachment |
| 2006 | Financial statements | 2006 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (2007.AU3.9) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-probed-backgroundfile-range-around-cover-memo-no-confident-per-org-attachment-match-found-cover-memo-retained |
| 2004 | Financial statements | 2004 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (Audit Committee Report 3 Clause 5) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-pre-MMIS-clause-text-says-statements-"submitted/forwarded-under-separate-cover"-no-separate-attachment-PDF-found-clause-is-correct-citation |
| 2001 | Financial statements | 2001 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (Audit Committee Report 1 Clause 4) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-pre-MMIS-clause-text-says-statements-"submitted/forwarded-under-separate-cover"-no-separate-attachment-PDF-found-clause-is-correct-citation |
| 2000 | Financial statements | 2000 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (Audit Committee Report 1 Clause 4) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-pre-MMIS-clause-text-says-statements-"submitted/forwarded-under-separate-cover"-no-separate-attachment-PDF-found-clause-is-correct-citation |
| 1999 | Financial statements | 1999 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (Audit Committee Report 1 Clause 4) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-pre-MMIS-clause-text-says-statements-"submitted/forwarded-under-separate-cover"-no-separate-attachment-PDF-found-clause-is-correct-citation |
| 1998 | Financial statements | 1998 Audited Financial Statements - McCormick Playground Arena (Audit Committee Report 1 Clause 4) | archived | ⚠️ Still being checked: inline-council-clause; ⚠️ Still being checked: checked-2026-08-06-pre-MMIS-clause-text-says-statements-"submitted/forwarded-under-separate-cover"-no-separate-attachment-PDF-found-clause-is-correct-citation |
Backgrounder
Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.
McCormick Playground Arena - backgrounder
Backgrounder / GOV-Q10-WAVE1-d1 / 2026-08-04 / registry row: tor-mccormick-playground-arena (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs
Mandate & statutory basis
McCormick Playground Arena is one of eight City of Toronto arenas operated by an independent, non-profit Board of Management under the City's governance and reporting framework for local boards (City of Toronto Auditor General, "Arenas - 2024 and 2023 Audited Financial Statements and Status of Outstanding 2024 Audited Financial Statements," p.1, https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/au/bgrd/backgroundfile-256834.pdf, fetched this review; registry source: City of Toronto Agencies & Corporations Chart, March 2025, https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/96db-Agencies-Corps-Chart-March-2025.pdf). The City's protocol for Agencies and Corporations requires each such board's governing body to review and approve its audited financial statements and management letters before submitting them to Toronto's Audit Committee (same source, "Decision History," p.2). ⚠️ still being checked - the specific incorporating instrument or Municipal Code chapter establishing McCormick's Board of Management was not confirmed on the arena's own site or in registered documents this review.
Roles, responsibilities & scope
The arena is a community ice facility hosting figure-skating instruction and youth hockey programming; user organizations include the West Toronto Skating Club (figure skating and learn-to-skate) and the Parkdale Flames Hockey Association (youth hockey) (https://www.mccormickarena.com/, fetched this review). The Board of Management holds regular public meetings under a Procedural Bylaw, and community members may attend by registering with the arena by email (same source). The facility closed on June 15, 2026 for approximately a year of renovations to improve accessibility and upgrade washrooms, with reopening planned for 2027 (same source).
Governance & reporting line
Governed by an independent Board of Management that operates in connection with the City of Toronto, which coordinates facility renovations and shares oversight of user-group scheduling (https://www.mccormickarena.com/, fetched this review). The Board's audited financial statements are reviewed and approved by the Board before being submitted to the City's Audit Committee under the City's Agencies and Corporations protocol (City of Toronto Auditor General report, p.2, https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/au/bgrd/backgroundfile-256834.pdf, fetched this review).
Budget scale
⚠️ still being checked - a specific dollar figure for McCormick Playground Arena's annual revenue or expenses could not be confirmed this review. The registered financial-statement documents in this project's archive (this library's government-document registry, doc_type financials, spanning 1998-2024) are City of Toronto Audit Committee cover reports referencing attached Board financial statements, but the fetched copy of the most recent one (tor-mccormick-playground-arena-fs-2024, https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/au/bgrd/backgroundfile-256834.pdf) returned only the Auditor General's covering memo, without the attached statement's dollar figures, in this review's fetch.
Institutional history
The facility is named for Mary Virginia McCormick, commemorated by three historical plaques installed by Heritage Toronto in August 2022 (https://www.mccormickarena.com/, fetched this review). ⚠️ still being checked - the arena's founding/original-construction year was not confirmed on the arena's own site or in registered documents this review; the earliest financial statement registered in this project's archive dates to 1998 (this library's government-document registry doc tor-mccormick-playground-arena-fs-1998, drawn from a 2003 City Council Audit Committee report).
Strategy evolution brief
No strategy evolution brief written for this org yet.