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8. Renovating the Barn's Roof In March, we had a structural engineer inspect the supports for the roof of the barn. We felt that with the roof being over thirty years old and the fact that it has been leaking for years, the roofs support beams should be inspected for corrosion that may cause it to fail. Attached for your review are the reports from the structural engineer. As noted, the beams have mainly surface rust with some areas having more than others, none of the beams are in need of replacement. According to the structural engineer, the rust has more to do with the humidity in the building caused by the ice sheet, than the roof leaking. There are areas of the roof that leak, but there was no noticeable change in the rust pattern to the roof where the roof was leaking and where it wasn't. As noted by the structural engineer, further corrosion will result in the load capacity of the roof to diminish within five to ten years if nothing is done to take care of the corrosion issue. When the addition is built to the Arena, the Barn will not be in compliance with existing codes. To bring the Barn up to current codes it will be expensive and may not be possible without some major remodeling. City staff discussed this issue and questioned whether it would be more practical to tear down the outsides walls and roof and rebuild around the existing rink rather than trying to bring the existing building up to code and putting an overlay over the existing roof that may fail in five to ten years. The $100,000.00 we have slated for a new roof could be used to patch the leaks in the existing roof, with the remaining amount of the money being used towards the purchase of a desiccant dehumidifier that would help remove the humidity from the Barn. The dehumidifier would be sized to expand with the expansion of the Barn when it is completed. This is one of the projects that we have submitted information to the Center of Energy Environment for a grant for, so hopefully we get awarded a grant for the project and the money, after repairing the roof, could be used for other projects within the city. 9. High School Alumni Hockey Game. Over the last month a committee has been formed to organize a High School Alumni Hockey game this summer. The game is schedule to be played Thursday July 23`d at 7:00 p.m. The committee is made up from people in Youth Hockey, Boy's Blue Line Club, the Girls Booster Club, and the Arena staff. We are soliciting players from the beginning of the hockey program to either play in the game or just to show up for the fun. The funds raised by the event will be used for locker rooms for the Boy's and Girls High School hockey teams. 10. Ice Rates Last April the Commission raised the ice rates from $165.00 an hour to $170.00 an hour. Typically the commission has not increased ice rates two years in a row. With the economy being the way it is and the fact that ice rates were increased last year, I do not recommend that we increase rates at this time.