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Lino Lakes Parks and Recreation Department 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 (651) 982 -2440 Fax (651) 982 -2439 www.ci.lino- lakes. mn.us ya Date: 3/5/10 To: Rick DeGardner, Public Services Director From: Brian Hronski, Recreation Program Supervisor Subject: Final 2009 -10 Warning House Report The 2009 -10 warming house and skating season provided another great season of ice conditions and skating. We opened all the rinks on December 19th and we had very few closings once we got started this season. We had a good winter break of skating however we had 2 warm days and were closed during that time. The best news was that we only had to close the rinks 7 days during the year. The rinks were open a total of 71 days and they closed on March 1st. This was third straight year we stayed open into March. The Centennial & Forest Lake Hockey Association's used our rinks again this season for their outdoor practices. The City and the youth hockey groups have worked in cooperation over the years to make this system very workable. This season went well for the most part however we did have a few problems with the locking of the building on a few nights. My plan is to set up a preseason meeting next year with the hockey associations to re- educate them of our policies and procedures. We continued our weekend rink cleaning program and that certainly makes a big difference for the weekend skaters. With heavy traffic at places like Sunrise Park it's very important that we keep the rink swept on the weekends. Again part-time seasonal staff was up bright and early on Saturday and Sunday mornings to sweep and clean the rinks at Sunrise, Birch, and City Hall Parks. We had the best year we've ever had as far as injuries were concerned; no accident reports were turned in. We had nine rink attendants this season and seven of them were returned from past years so I'm hoping that stability helped reduce dangerous situations at our rinks! The injuries at the rinks have continue to lesson over the past few years and I believe the staff has done a great job of enforcing rules and regulations at the rinks. The overall numbers for the skating season were comparable to last year. Birch Park continued its slight downward trend and City Hall's numbers were slightly up again. City Hall has continued to gain some momentum the over the last 2 years and users are starting to skate there again. As always the busiest rink was Sunrise Park and on many occasions there were kids waiting to skate right at 4:00 PM when we opened. In closing we had another outstanding skating season and the weather was very cooperative again this year. Our rink staff was excellent and our maintenance staff continues to do a great job getting the rinks ready to be skated on. CC: Lino Lakes Park Board BH /warminghouse2010/ 2009- 10finalwarminghousereport.doc