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Ice Arena Commission Minutes Apri15, 2005 Page 3 .............................. that another way to run the stand should be found as he believes it to be a detriment to the city if the concession stand is not open. Commissioner Joluison indicated that the concession stand used to have a concession manager and part-time employees and used to be quite profitable. Discussion took place and it was the consensus of the Commission that if Ella River Youth Hockey would like to keep running the concession stand, that they must make a commitment to ensure that the stand is open and staffed properly during all varsit~~ games and other peak ice tunes or die citjT may wish to take over the concession stand operations. Chair Martu7 asked Corrunissioners Malzahn and Foss to relay this information to Ells River Youth Hockey. Commissioner Malzahn indicated that Ells River Youth Hockey is holdiig their annual business meeting on Apri120 and he will make them aware of the Commission's thoughts on the concession stand and report back to Arena staff after the meetng. Commissioner Farber indicated that this is an important topic for the Ice Arena and he would like to see the Commission hold a special meeting once Elk River Youth Hockey has made their decision on the concession stand. Commissioner Johnson stated that when he was involved with Youth Hockey, they did many fundraisers including boat raffles and pizza sales and that they made a lot of money. He indicated that die organization is only as strong as their fundraisers and believes drat Youth Hockey has to have a strong person in charge of fundraising in order to organize and hold profitable fundraisers. Judy DeGreef, Fundraising Chair for Elk River Youth Hockey -stated that as a part of joining Elk River Youth Hockey, parents are required to either volunteer or pay a "buy-out" amount. She indicated that at this time, many parents would rather pay the amount rather than spend their time volunteering. She believes that if this "buy-out" rate was increased, that Youth Hockey would get more volunteers for such thugs as running the concession stand and for fundraising. 6. Ice Sales Arena Manager Rich Czech reviewed a chart outlining total ice hour usage by customer for June 2003 through May 2004 and June 2004 through May 2005. Mi. Czech stated that the substantial increase in ice hours for the 2004-2005 ice season is largely due to the Barn having ice on schedule as well as an additional 100 hours of ice time being sold January through May. Mr. Czech indicated that Elk River Youth Hockey has requested additional ice time during the week and in order to accommodate this, ice time would have to be taken from one of the High School teams which would more than likely be the Becker/Big Lake High School Boys Hockey Team. Ml. Czech explained that Becker/Big Lake booked 77 hours of ice time last year, 4 of which were on Saturdays, which leaves 73 hours of weekday ice tune during the season. Mi. Czech stated that he has been in contact with the Becker/Big Lake Athletic Director regarding this issue and he is worl~ing on booking ice time at the Monticello rink but he believes most of Monticello's prime time hours may already be spoken for. Mi. Czech