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Ice Arena Commission Memo Page 3 of 5 August 8, 2006 -------------- 8) Arena Commission Policies and Procedures Attached for your review are the policies and procedures that the Arena Commission has approved over the years. You will notice that the first two pages deal mainly with ice rates and the shooting area. The third page notes other policies that the commission approved over the years. There were several other items that Arena Commission voted on that are not listed such as, the Arena's budget, the Barn's floor, and other miscellaneous items. 9) Ice Sales /Ice Rates / Roger's Ice Arena Attached for your review is the usage schedule for the 2005 - 2006 season along with a draft usage schedule for the 2006 - 2007 season. There are still a few hours to be booked for the coming year; however, the majority of the hours are set. This summer we rented about 1001ess hours than in 2005. This can be contributed to the Roger's Girls High school hockey coach not running his camp and The John Bazzachini Hockey camp canceling his Mini Mite level due to lack of interest. The Roger's city council voted to move forward with their Arena. The projected completion date is December 15th; however a tighter time line will be established once they know when the steel will be delivered. Typically it takes about six months to build an Arena, depending on weather, deliveries of materials, and other unforeseen obstacles. Six months would put the completion date of the Arena at about the end of January. On July 25th the Roger's city council voted to fund a larger lobby for the Arena. This will diffidently give them an advantage on getting any sectional high school games or other "big games". This year we have booked all of the Roger's High Schools ice. If the Roger's Arena opens when projected, the Roger's teams will move their program to the Roger's Arena. The School District will be held accountable for payment of open hours of ice at the Elk River Arena that was scheduled for the Roger's teams. If we find buyers for the vacant hours from the School District, the School District will not be responsible for these hours. As stated at the April Commission meeting, Roger's High School and their association rented 388 hours of ice during the 2005 - 2006 season. This season (2006 - 2007) they are scheduled to rent about 345 hours of ice. 65 of these hours are in the summer, 25 of these hours are on weekends leaving 255 hours of ice during the weekdays. Out of the weekday hours there are about 40 hours that are right after school (2:50 - 5:00 pm). These hours are hard to utilize by the youth groups since most of their players are still in school and their coaches are still at work. This leaves about 215 hours of prime time weekday hours, which will be easy to sell. However the remaining hours will be a little more challenging to sell. Elk River Youth Hockey and the Elk River Skate Club can only use so many weekend hours. We can schedule more Open Skating and Open Hockey during the weekends; however they do not generate the kind of revenue that selling the hours outright will. This coming season I will be working closely with the Elk River Youth Hockey Association, The Elk River Skating Academy, and the Elk River Skate