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The Arena's 2009 - 2010 ice rate was $170.00 an hour for prime time, and $145.00 for non prime time hours. The summer rate is $145.00 an hour with weekend hours at $1 15.00. During summer hours I negotiate ice costs for ice hours that are not being sold or when customers buy lazge blocks of ice. Attached for your review are the hours of ice that the Arena sold through the months of September of 2009 through mid March of 2010. These hours will be the hours that aze affected by any ice rate increase that the Arena Commission decides on As you will see, the Arena sold 3,220 hours of ice time between September of 2009 and March of 2010. Out of these hours there's about 314.5 hours that are programming hours for the Break Away hockey League, hockey clinics, and the skating Academy. Under Arena Recreation there are 210 hours noted as "ice for sale". These aze hours that aze for sale on the Arena web site as well as "Rink Finder.Com". There are 90 hours that are for high school games, and 412 hours for open skating, and open hockey sessions. None of the above hours would be affected by an hourly ice increase, which leaves 2,193 hours of ice time that is sold on an hourly basis. Out of these hours there are about 25 hours that are considered non prime time, leaving about 2,168 hours that would be affected by an increase. My recommendation to the Commission is to increase the hourly seasonal (September -Mid March) prime rate by $6.00 ($ ] 76.00) and to leave the non prime time rate at $145.00 an hour. The hourly increase would generate an estimated $13,008.00. $176.00 an hour is well under the average chazge of surrounding Arenas. Elk River Youth Hockey is considering decreasing their ice hours by approximately seventy (70) hours. These hours come from weekends where there isn't enough teams to use all of the hours. If Elk River Youth Hockey decreases their hours by seventy (70) hours, it would be a reduction of $12,250.00 in ice sales. I have contacted surrounding associations to see if there is any interest in purchasing these hours, however I have not received any correspondents back from the other associations. 8. Banners /Pictures for Arena At the August meeting in 2005, the Arena Commission approved placing banners of Alumni's that have played in the N.H.L. In the motion is does not define a length of time that a player has play in the league. To clarify this, I am asking that Commission to define "playing and or played in the N.H.L". Over the last month Laura and I have been working on putting together some information to give to the paper about the Alumni's pictures for the Arena. When reading the motion of the policy outlining the criteria to have a player's picture hanged at the Arena, I noticed that it doesn't have any length a time a player has play with either the association or the High School or does it indicate weather a college player has to graduate from their respective school. Before moving forward I would like the commission to clarify their position on these two issues. Attached for your review is the page outlining the motion at the 2007 August meeting.