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<br />The Elk River Vision <br />A welcoming community with revolutionary and spirited resourcefulness, exceptional <br />service, and community engagement that encourages and inspires prosperity. Updated: August 2020 <br />Request for Action <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To <br />Multipurpose Facility Advisory Commission <br />Item Number <br />8.1 <br />Agenda Section <br />Action Item <br />Meeting Date <br />March 14, 2022 <br />Prepared by <br />Tim Dalton, FTCENTER Superintendent <br />Item Description <br />Plans for Tier III Junior Hockey Team at the <br />FTCENTER <br />Reviewed by <br /> <br />Reviewed by <br /> <br /> <br />Action Requested <br />Approve by motion, to continue to pursue agreement to house and plan facility updates necessary to <br />accommodate the MN Squatch Tier III Junior Hockey Team home venue at that FTCENTER. <br /> <br />Background/Discussion <br />Team Principal, Chic Pojar will present plans for MN Squatch, Trier III Junior Hockey Team to be housed at the <br />FTCENTER for the 2022-23 season. To house this type of team, alterations would need to be made to the facility <br />to accommodate a resident team locker room and office for team management. To create the locker room, we are <br />looking at combining the figure skating and referee’s locker rooms into one large team locker room. This would <br />mean that we would need to create some other type of locker room situation for our referees. The team would <br />utilize the unoccupied figure skating office also. We are working toward a five-year agreement with the team. We <br />have some preliminary cost estimates to make the needed facility changes. However, we have recently developed <br />some other less costly options. Timing is important, the team will need a locker room beginning September 1, <br />2022. <br /> <br />Financial Impact <br />There will be a cost to convert the space for the team, however once that is accounted for, however we will have <br />ongoing revenue from the ice that the team purchases for years to come. We will develop a detailed cost/benefit <br />analysis for the project/team residency. A good comparison is our various naming rights contracts. There is a <br />significant cost to brand the spaces, however we have ongoing revenue for a period of several years. <br /> <br />Mission/Policy/Goal <br />Utilize the Facility as a regional event center by housing a Tier III Jr Hockey team. Optimizing use of the arenas <br />by contracting ongoing ice sales in off hours. <br /> <br />Attachments <br /> Power Point Presentation on Tier III Junior Hockey Team <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />