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r r_. August 6, 1979 Park Board to the legality of charging for park land on meets and bounds; Mr. Locher was to have checked with the League of Cities on this matter. Mr. Zelinka will contact Mr. Locher and request him to have an ordinance change prepared for the next meeting. Mr. Shaughnessy moved to request the Council to formally reply to the Park Board's previous recommendation concerning meets and bounds and individual single builders. Mr. Dean and Mr. McNamara from the Hockey Association were present at the meeting with a request for the Park Board to explain their plans for the hockey rink at Sunrise Park. Their major concern at present was that the rink was in need of repair for it to be used this winter. The necessary repairs were grading the rink bed, completely replacing the large doors, and replacing some corner posts. The lighting fixtures, taken from the original two rinks and combined on the one, would be adequate if they were restrung to run across the rink. A garage had been put up so they would no longer need to travel back and forth to pick up maintenance equip- ment. This had been a problem the previous winter. Eighty to ninety hours of work had been put into the rink last year, with approximately 70 hours in volunteer work. Don Volk had been paying them for the actual sweeping of the rink and any snowblowing, as per the agreement. They asked if the Park Board planned to remodel the present rink, or to tear down both rinks and put up a new one. They felt that even if repairs were made on the hockey rink for this winter, that something would have to be done with it after this year. The original guidelines set up were that the Hockey Association would bring in the ice and maintain the hockey rink, and the pleasure rink would be maintained by the City. Recent plans had been to eliminate the one rink, and rebuild the second. n The Park Board felt they would definately be able to make the repairs on the hockey rink, but they could not promise any than that at this time. Mr. Karth inquired as to the possibility of having two good rinks there, and whether they were needed based on population increases in the area. Mr. Dean indicated that although the number of participants has not increased that much in the past 3 years--perhaps an increase of ten--new programs have been added which have increased the number of people using the rinks. At present, Circle Pines provides and maintains two rinks , Lexington provides and maintains one rink, Blaine, nothing, Centerville provides one rink, and Lino Lakes provides one rink and partially maintains it. They def- inately are short of hockey rinks, and are trying to get the use of Baldwin rink, just built. Last year the Sunrise Park rink was used an average of 24-28 hours a week for practice and games and at times up to 32 hours a week. Registration is normally later in the year, so numbers for this year are not yet known, but will probably stay much the same, if not a few more. In answer to a question as to how many children just from Lino Lakes would be using the rinks , they replied that this is to some extent irrelevant, but that approximately one-third of the child population in Lino Lakes is in the Centennial School District. The Hockey Association is divided up under state rules and the Centennial and Forest Lake Hockey Associations more or less cover the whole of Lino Lakes. The Board requested that the Hockey Association provide a rooster and some further information as a basis for the request for a new rink. They will bring this up at the Hockey Association Board meeting on August 7, and will give the information to Don Volk as soon as possible. Don Volk is requested to get some estimates on the cost of a new rink and the cost of the repairs on the old rink by the next Park Board meeting. Mr. Shaughnessy will also look into the costs of a new rink, particularly all the details such as dimensions , etc. for a more in-depth look at the possibilities and costs. It was brought up that if a new rink was critical , it could still be put in this fall . Because of cost increases , it would be better to build a new one this year and repair the old one for a few years. Mr. Zelinka suggested the Junior Chamber of Commerce might be interested in taking part in both the construction and the financing as a project.