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Park Board Meeting — August 6, 2012 Minutes • 7. OLD BUSINESS: Rick told Park Board Members that the grant for the recreation complex has been rejected. He said there were 3.2 million dollars in request and that only $365,000 was funded. • 8. NEW BUSINESS a. 2011 -2012 Warming House Report Rick went over the memo from Brian Hronski. The 2011 -12 warming house and skating season was the worst we've seen in recent years. With a late opening date and an early closing we had an extremely short season. When we had ice it wasn't near the quality as we've had in years prior due to the fluxuation of temperatures and ice making conditions. Our ice season kicked off on Friday January 13th which was the latest we've opened in many years. Not being open over winter break is always a big disappointment because that's when we have the highest number of skaters and the kids are out of school. Even opening when we did the ice wasn't in top condition but we felt we needed to open and try to get the skating season started. After being open for 2 weeks we hit another huge warm spell which really hurt our ice conditions. The warm spell lasted from February 1st — 8th and we were forced to close the warming houses during that time. With the damage to the ice from the warm weather we were lucky to squeeze another 10 days of the skating season. Once we reopened the rinks the conditions were poor as frost boils started cover the ice surface. We closed for the season on Saturday February 18th As in past years the Centennial Hockey Association again used our rinks for youth hockey practices. I noticed a reduced number of teams signing up for practice time and we had some holes in the CYHA schedule. I'm hoping this was just a one year trend that will change next year. Joe Gratz who is the outdoor ice coordinator for CYHA was in communication with me prior to the season and did a nice job getting me schedules in a timely fashion. Again this year we had part time maintenance staff clean Sunrise and Birch Park's rinks on Saturday mornings. This was again a nice service to provide especially at the rinks with higher use. Not cleaning the rinks at all over the weekend really lessons the skating conditions. Don Jensen again helped in weekend ice maintenance. We had 2 incidents during the skating season and both occurred at Sunrise Park. The first incident happened on Thursday February 9th and one of the warming house attendants shot a puck over the boards and broke a car window. The gentleman was parked right by the side warming house door and was parked in a less than ideal spot. The other incident happened when one of our snack and skate participants tripped while skating and split their chin open. That child required stitches and was ok.