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7. Ice Sales A. Usage The attached chart shows athree-year history of how many hours were rented each year and who is renting them. You will notice a loss of about 300 hours from 2002 - 2003 season to this past season (2003 - 2004). This was due to the Barn not being in operation until November. If the Barn did start when it was scheduled to, I believe the Arena would have gone over 4,000 hours of ice rented this season. B. Demand This past season was the first year of the Roger's High School programs and Roger's Youth Hockey Association skating at the Arena. There were a few conflicts during the season, however considering what happened to the Barn, things went as well as can be expected. This coming season, the Roger's High School programs are looking at expanding their programs. The Boys are looking at increasing their practice time from one hour a day to two hours a day. The Girls are looking at increasing from one hour to one and a half hours each day. Considering holidays and other days when teams skated more than one hour on a day this year, the girls would increase their hours from 60 hours to about 85 hours and the boys from 80 hours to about 110 hours. To accommodate these hours we would have to displace another customer or customer's hours. Becker /Big Lake would seem to be the logical customer to let go if we were to let a customer go. Becker /Big Lake is looking at moving their program to Monticello if Monticello builds this year. This would open up about 80 hours of ice. Which would take care of the increase in the demand for ice from the Roger's high school programs. If Becker /Big Lake is not welcomed back, the Arena would lose some revenue from their games. Becker /Big Lake has six to eight games each year; each game takes in about $465.00 over the actual cost of the ice. Releasing Becker /Big Lake will leave the Arena with one less customer to absorb ice hours if and when Roger builds their own rink. There are about 450 hours rented through both Rogers high school programs and Rogers Youth Hockey. Depending on when a rink would be built in Rogers, the existing customers would be hard pressed to rent all of these hours, unless it's four to five years down the road.