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City Council Minutes October 13, 2003 ............................. Page 4 5.6 5.7 MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER MOTIN AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER DEITZ TO APPROVE RESOLUTION #03-67 PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF $1,785,000 G.O. IMPROVEMENT BONDS SERIES 2003A. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. Consideration of award of bids for City Hall security system Finance Director Lori Johnson stated that this is awarding the bid for the City Hall portion of the security system, which is including security cameras, and the integrating of all three systems together. MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER TVEITE AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER KUESTER TO APPROVE A CONTRACT WITH PRO- TEC DESIGN IN THE AMOUNT OF $34,880 FOR THE CITY HALL SECURITY SYSTEM. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. Discussion of Ice Arena floor City Administrator Pat Klaers stated that if the arena staff is unsuccessful in getting ice in the Barn then staff is recommending that we move forward for replacement of the floor as soon as possible. Funding options for this project were reviewed at the August 25, 2003 Council meeting. Ice Arena Manager Rich Czech stated that so far we are unable to get a micron reading, which determines how strong the vacuum is on the floor. This will also move debris in the system and check for leaks. He is hoping by Wednesday or Thursday to have this system working. When staff can run the system, it will continue to run at a high temperature to filter out debris and moisture. As that is depleted, it will start to put ice down and move temperature of refrigerate down bringing the floor to a freezing point. That will tell if we are successful or not. He is looking at the date of October 20 to evaluate where we will be. If we are up and running, we should have ice by the 24th of October. Councilmember Dietz asked if can't get ice, what happens to the people that have that time reserved. Will you double up on the Olympic size sheet or are the people out of luck. Mr. Czech stated that we would have a lot of disappointed customers and that is a question for the Ice Arena Commissioners as to how they want it handled. As far as rescheduling ice for customers, we think we will be out of luck. He would like to accommodate the high school games as much as possible. Councilmember Dietz is concerned that people will be mad and will not come back permanently. He inquired as to whom has it scheduled i.e. Elk River Youth Hockey or Elk River people---can we accommodate. Mr. Czech answered that the Becker Big Lake High School seems to be the biggest losers, and after that Rogers and Elk River are about 50/50. Internally ice time has been doubled up already with some groups going to other sites. Currently they can go to Princeton. Councilmember Dietz asked how much will be lost in revenue if we have to shutdown. Mr. Czech replied about $15,000 for the time period to get the ice back in.