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• MINUTES PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING NOVEMBER 15, 1990, THURSDAY 7:00 P.M. Members Present: Connie Lasser, Jeff Johnson, Steven Schugel, Linda McLoon, Carol Kriegler, Parks Director, Sam Jacobs, Council Liason, Paul Ciernia, Vince Members Absent: Carol Huso, Deborah Weiland, Lloyd Jacobson, Jyneen Thatcher 1. Ice Rinks Paul Ciernia came to present his case for allowing hockey to remain on the Falcon Hts. school rink. He felt that it would be impossible to enforce a "no hockey" rule, and that only younger kids (5-7) were playing hockey anyway, who used the rink the short way, not its length. There was some discussion as to the real age of the kids playing hockey there (probably more like 9 and 10 year olds) and about complaints from parents who weren't able to use the rink for pleasure skating because of safety concerns about the hockey playing. There are no hockey boards, nor any plan to purchase these for the school. • After a lengthy discussion, it was agreed unanimously by the commission to try to set guidelines for rink usage and use the school newspaper, Falcon Hts. newsletter and distribution of flyers to neighbors that it was 1: important to be considerate on the ice, taking care if young children were there learning how to skate 2: using only 1 /2 of the rink for hockey, particularly if others were pleasure skating. It is important to have an enforceable policy concerning rink usage and we agreed to give this a try. We agreed we would assess the actual age of the hockey players there this season and reassess the policy next year. There will only be a hockey rink at the Community Park this year, due to the new sod. We unanimously agreed that it was important to serve everyone. We all agreed to have pleasure skating only from 4-5:30 Mon. thru Fri., and pleasure skating from 11-1 on Sat and 12-2 on Sun for this season. For Christmas vacation, Saturday hours will be maintained for free skating. These will all be clearly posted. Ice maintenance and snow removal policies in Roseville are basically left to an individual, who decides, based on temperature and snow conditions, if the rinks are to be plowed on sat. so that people can skate on Sunday. They use seasonal help to clear the rinks of snow at $5.50/hour. They set priority rinks, and only those have the snow removed on Sat. We decided that Carol should decide if snow removal should occur on Saturday based on her judgement. Vince was nervous about part-time help using the snow removal equipment. He agreed, at Sam's suggestion, that George and a second older part-time person would be trained to use the equipment for • snow removal during weekdays. 2. Community Park Building