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<br />Ice Arena Commission Minutes <br />April 5, 2005 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />that another way to run the stand should be found as he believes it to be a detriment to the <br />city if the concession stand is not open. <br /> <br />Commissioner Johnson indicated that the concession stand used to have a concession <br />manager and part-time employees and used to be quite profitable. <br /> <br />Discussion took place and it was the consensus of the Commission that if Elk River Youth <br />Hockey would like to keep running the concession stand, that they must make a <br />commitment to ensure that the stand is open and staffed properly during all varsity games <br />and other peak ice times or the city may wish to take over the concession stand operations. <br />Chair Martin asked Commissioners Malzahn and Foss to relay this information to Elk River <br />Youth Hockey. <br /> <br />Commissioner Malzahn indicated that Elk River Youth Hockey is holding their annual <br />business meeting on April 20 and he will make them aware of the Commission's thoughts on <br />the concession stand and report back to Arena staff after the meeting. <br /> <br />Commissioner Farber indicated that this is an important topic for the Ice Arena and he <br />would like to see the Commission hold a special meeting once Elk River Youth Hockey has <br />made their decision on the concession stand. <br /> <br />Commissioner Johnson stated that when he was involved with Youth Hockey, they did <br />many fundraisers including boat raffles and pizza sales and that they made a lot of money. <br />He indicated that the organization is only as strong as their fundraisers and believes that <br />Youth Hockey has to have a strong person in charge of fundraising in order to organize and <br />hold profitable fundraisers. <br /> <br />Judy DeGreef, Fundraising Chair for Elk River Youth Hockey - stated that as a part of <br />joining Elk River Youth Hockey, parents are required to either volunteer or pay a "buy-out" <br />amount. She indicated that at this time, many parents would rather pay the amount rather <br />than spend their time volunteering. She believes that if this "buy-out" rate was increased, <br />that Youth Hockey would get more volunteers for such things as running the concession <br />stand and for fundraising. <br /> <br />6. Ice Sales <br /> <br />Arena Manager Rich Czech reviewed a chart outlining total ice hour usage by customer for <br />June 2003 through May 2004 and June 2004 through May 2005. Mr. Czech stated that the <br />substantial increase in ice hours for the 2004-2005 ice season is largely due to the Barn <br />having ice on schedule as well as an additional 1 00 hours of ice time being sold January <br />through May. <br /> <br />Mr. Czech indicated that Elk River Youth Hockey has requested additional ice time during <br />the week and in order to accommodate this, ice time would have to be taken from one of the <br />High School teams which would more than likely be the Becker/Big Lake High School Boys <br />Hockey Team. Mr. Czech explained that Becker/Big Lake booked 77 hours of ice time last <br />year, 4 of which were on Saturdays, which leaves 73 hours of weekday ice time during the <br />season. Mr. Czech stated that he has been in contact with the Becker/Big Lake Athletic <br />Director regarding this issue and he is working on booking ice time at the Monticello rink <br />but he believes most of Monticello's prime time hours may already be spoken for. Mr. Czech <br />