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<br />. <br /> <br />When figuring out the costs of utilities I took the two months from the last <br />four years when the Arena did not have ice, June 1997 and Jlme 1999 and <br />averaged their expenses. Even with not having ice in June 1997 and Jlme <br />1999 the average electricity and natural gas bill combined was $4,736.00. <br />The month of June 2000 the ice was left in, it ended up being our busiest <br />Jlme. The Combined electricity and Natural gas bill for Jlme 2000 was <br />$6,180.00. The cost difference between having ice and not having ice was <br />$1,444.00. <br /> <br />I did not factor in Jlme of 1998 because the ice was left in but was hardly <br />used for a two week period, thus the utility costs were down. <br />Due to demand charges and fixed costs to install the ice it would have cost <br />more money to take the ice out and reinstall the ice two weeks later. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Part time workers hourly pay is between $8.00 - $10.00. The Smnmer ice <br />rental rate last season was $110.00 an hour. Taking the part time pay into <br />account this roughly leaves $100.00 an hour for other expenses. At a $100.00 <br />an hour this calculates to about 14.45 hours of ice that needs to be sold a <br />month to cover the extra utility costs. This is not to say that we would keep <br />ice in if we could sell 15 hours of ice during a month, however it does give us <br />an of idea the extra expenses the Arena accnles when having ice in during the <br />Smnmer months. Other items to take into accOlmt are the wear andtear on <br />equipment, the cost of putting ice back in, revenue from vending machines, <br />skate sharpening, and other merchandise sales. <br /> <br />This Summer the Arena has gone through a lot of changes. The City Council <br />approved rubber matting for the Olympic rink. We were able to purchase <br />some seconds ofTuflex rubber matting for a great price. This enabled us to <br />purchase and install more matting than what we intended. There is even <br />enough left to hopefully mat in the bathrooms next Summer. <br /> <br />Attached for your review are the capital improvements that the city has made <br />since 1997. As you will see the Arena has been the beneficiary to quite a few <br />items over the last four years. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Youth Hockey has contracted a company to complete the painting in the <br />Olympic rink. Both the bottom and top of the Arena are completed. As you <br />will notice, the color scheme is the same as the lobby, red on the bottom, <br />white on the top and a black line in between the red and white. <br />