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Ice Arena 2002 Annual Report During the 2003 — 2004 season Rogers will be splitting from Elk River Youth Hockey to start their own hockey program and will be in need of about 400 hours of ice. With that, Elk River Youth Hockey will be reducing their ice time by about 400 hours. The school district will be adding Rogers's girls and boys hockey to their programs, which will add another 240 hours of ice rentals to their hockey program. This will be very challenging; not only to maximize all the ice sales but also to keep customers satisfied as well. Arena Advertising The arena advertising has done very well over the years. Over the years we have added a few advertisers and have lost a few as well. The bleachers on the east side of the rink have given us another area for customers to advertise. Capital Improvements This year we installed wall-to-wall rubber matting in the player's hallway in the Barn and in locker rooms I and 2 in the Barn. This season we are planning on putting matting in the two remaining locker rooms of the Barn as well as beginning to put rubber mats in the locker rooms of the Olympic rink. The Barn received a few more sections of center groove this past season and will receive a few more sections this year leaving just the north wall to finish. The third and final phase of installing new light fixtures in the Barn was completed this year. With the new light fixtures, the Barn is brighter than the Olympic rink. Major Repairs The Barn's floor looks like it will hold for another season. Last summer, like most of the summers before, we repaired a few more pipes that were leaking. Over the season we record daily readings to the ice plant. Besides telling us if the system is operating correctly, it also indicates to us if there is a leak in the system. Even after the repairs this past summer there are still leaks to the system, which means we will again be trying to find these leaks over the summer months. It is inevitable that the floor will need to be replaced if we are going to continue to have ice in the Barn. There's no real way to tell when the floor may finally give away, it may just progressively get worse each year or it could just blow the whole Freon charge all at once. In the meantime, until directed differently by the Council, we will continue to make the repairs to the floor and keep adding Freon to the system to keep it operating as efficiently as possible. The following is the yearly total amount of Freon that has been put into the system since 1998: Year Pounds of Freon Fall of 1998 1,000 Fall of 1999 1,000 Fall of 2000 625 Fall of 2001 400 Fall of 2002 720 Winter of 2003 420