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budget, however this will mean the revenue from vending may not reach what was budgeted. Overall expenditures should be down from what was budgeted; this will help to offset any lost revenue from Admissions. As in past years when preparing the budget, we are pessimistic when looking at the expenditures and conservative when looking at the revenues. This has helped us to avoid a deficit at the end of the year that we are unprepared for. 6. Ice Usage update Attached for your review is the actual ice usage from September 2002 through March 2003 and the tentative ice usage statistics from September 2003 through March 2004. During the 2002—2003 season the Arena rented about 3,089 hours, 2003 —2004 the Arena has tentatively rented 2,868 hours. When comparing the total numbers of hours rented for each season it may seem like there is a reduction of about 220 hours for this coming season. This is misleading due to the fact that most of the hours in March are not scheduled for High School programs and the Youth Hockey Associations, as well as for the Skating Club and the Spring Break Away League. This derives from the groups not wanting to be locked into ice they may not need. I would presume that as we get into the season these groups would buy their ice for March, which could add an additional 175 - 200 hours to the total number of hours sold for the season. Other areas where ice hours will be increased are from individuals purchasing ice through out the season, which could add another 50— 100 hours of ice. Two more areas of interest are the increase of the High School hours and the Elk River Youth Hockey, Rogers Youth Hockey hours. The High School practice hours are up by about 130 hours; this does not include March hours. About 30 of these hours are scheduled at 6:00am during the week, the remaining hours come from hours that Elk River Youth Hockey dropped because of the split with Rogers. This season there are 42 High School games scheduled at the Arena which totals 158.75 hours of ice, this compares to 33 games last season, which used 123.5 hours of ice. This season will see 19 of these games played on Saturdays, compared to 11 games last season. Scheduling as many games as possible on Saturdays will help the other groups in scheduling their ice. Last season Elk River Youth Hockey said they would need about 30% less hours of ice because of Rogers splitting from their Association. With this in mind, Elk River Youth Hockey's hours were reduced from 1,655 hours to 1,172 hour, which is about a 29% decrease of their ice hours. This will fluctuate since some hours may be returned and the hours for March have not been scheduled. The Arena was able to schedule 333 hours of ice for Rogers Youth Hockey. This is a 33% increase than what was projected in March. This increase is due to the School District taking hours in the morning and not scheduling hours for the Roger's Junior Varsity teams.