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eliminator installed to the suction and discharge lines. Small jacks will also be installed at each corner of ice skid to help control the vibration to the skid. 8. Arena/Ice Rink Usage Policy Over the years we have been trying to deal with excessive ruts in the ice caused by players conditioning on the ice. Coaches have their players do skating drills on the ice to build up their endurance. These drills are hard skating with hard turns with alot of stop and starts, which causes cuts in the ice. After a few times over the same spot by skaters these cuts turn into ruts which can be as wide as a few inches and are sometimes down to the concrete. We have asked coaches to move their conditioning drills around so not to go over the same spot. Some coaches are conscious of the condition of the ice and move the drills around, however, sometimes this is not enough. An example would be when the boy's high school team has their conditioning day which is usually Mondays. There are over thirty-five skaters on the ice conditioning with some of them weighing over two hundred pounds. There are multiple areas of the ice rink that are badly damaged to the point where it would take at least an hour to bring it back to a condition where it would be safe to skate on again. With the high school boys team we tried to add an extra resurface to their time using two resufacers to help maintain the quality of the ice. This helped somewhat, however, according to the coach it took too much time away from their practice and at the end of their time the ice still had numerous large ruts left in it. It is not fair to the next customer coming onto the ice to have to try to skate on ice that is badly damaged nor is it safe for us to allow them to skate on the ice. If a skater would sprain an ankle or worse break a bone the Arena would be hard pressed to defend itself. I would like to see a fee associated with customers leaving large ruts in the ice or charge them the extra time it takes to repair the ice before the next hour. Another problem we have been dealing with is excessive garbage being left in the locker rooms and users spitting on the floor and or walls of the Arena, especially in the locker rooms. We do have a policy regarding damage to the Arena; however, with the Commission's approval I would like to include a janitorial fee that would be charged to the users, not only for vandalism to the Arena,but for excessive untidiness. I would also like to include a policy regarding leaving the ice in an unsafe condition. The policy would read something like this; "Users leaving the ice in a condition so that after a regular ice resurface the ice is deemed to be unsafe for the next user, will be charged for the time, labor, any extra resurfacing, and any other expenses associated with repairing the ice back to a safe condition."