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C. Ice Rates Attached you will find the ice rates for the Arena this past season along with rates of other Arenas in our area. After comparing our price with other comparable Arenas, I feel that our hourly rate is in the lower tier of the going rate. The 2004 Minnesota Ice Arena Managers (M.LM.A.) survey is due to be out in April, hopefully it will be available before we meet so that we can compare our rates with other rates at other Arenas. Elk River Youth Hockey and the Arena completed athree-year agreement to hold their hourly ice rate for three years. Their ice rate was held at $135.00 an hour for their donation of $30,000.00 towards the Olympic Bleachers. This year they will return to standard Arena's rates. At this time I do not feel that we should increase the hourly ice rates, any increase would only add an additional burdened to Elk River Youth Hockey members. At the August Arena Commission meeting I would like to review the summer rates for 2005. By April when these rates are usually reviewed, there is ice booked for the summer. Adjusting the ice rates in August for the next summer, would able me to give perspective customers their rates far in advance so that they can plan accordantly. 8. Construction of the Barn As you are aware of on November 10, 2003, the city council approved to move forward with the replacement of the Barns floor and dasher boards. The low bids received for both projects came from Commercial Refrigeration. The bid for the removal of the old floor and the installation of the new floor was $298,912.00. The bid for the new set of dasher boards was $85,784.00 and are subcontracted to Becker Arena Products. The removal of the old boards will be the responsibility of the Arena. Some of the gates to the existing boards in the Barn will be reused. On February 23, 2004 the city council approved two other major improvements. To replace the condenser to the Olympic ice plant in the amount of $24,660.00 and to install a backpressure regulator to the Olympic plant in the amount of $2,213.00. Both projects were scheduled in the Capital Improvement Plan for the Arena, by completing both of the projects now the city saved over $10,000.00. Attached for your review is my memo to Pat Klaers reviewing both projects. The construction of the Barn's floor and boards is still on line to start May 3`a, after the Craft Fair. Before this, we will be preparing the building for the construction, the score clock as well as bleachers will be covered with plastic to protect them from the concrete dust, and all unnecessary items will be removed from the rink area. On Monday (May 3`d) the boards will start to come down and will be removed from the Arena. There is still a question of what we are going to do with the used boards. Most of the gates are going to be reused as well as some of the sections for a shooting area on the