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Minutes • 4. Ice Rinks Due to the unseasonably warm weather the ice rinks are a mess. After lengthy discussion, it was agreed to give a try to bringing back the rink at Idaho and Snelling, since energy week was the following week, and all the school age children would be home. If Vince and Jay found it to be impossible after one try, we agreed to give it up for the season. 5. Park Building Construction Our timeline calls for putting out the bids in mid-February. Our long term lease was officially approved by the Board of Regents at the University of MN on February 8. Carol indicated that she had the Fire Marshal and Chief check the specs as well as the city engineer. Both groups had some questions, and all this would be investigated prior to sending out the bids. The Fire Marshal had some questions about emergency lighting, smoke detectors and a security system. They also indicated that wanted the building to have an automatic fire suppression system (that is, sprinklers). Usually this is put in buildings only if loss of life might result from a fire. Carol also indicated that these systems are usually prohibitively expensive. Carol said she thought it could be added as an add-on to the specs for the building and that way if the price was right, we would be able to put one in if we had sufficient funds. There is going to be a meeting on Friday, 2/17,at 9:30am. Scott Midness, the architect, the city engineer, Vince, Jan and Carol would all be there. All were invited to attend. Connie and Jean indicated that they would try to attend. 6. Programs All the winter programs were doing nicely. Almost all were full, including pillow polo. Carol indicated that she was going to attend an MRC conference and hoped to pick up some ideas for programming there. 7. Community or Park Watch Program Vince indicated that these programs help encourage pride by residents and users. Carol said she would look into programs in neighboring areas. r ~( •