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13Ilk <br /> REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Agenda Section: <br /> STAFF REPORT <br /> AGENDA SESSION DATE Report Number:p 94-1323WS <br /> October 3, 1994 Re ort Date: 9-28-94 <br /> DISPOSITION <br /> Item Description: Consideration of Funding Woodcrest Park Ice Skating and Winter Rink Activities <br /> Administrator's Review/Recommendation: <br /> - No comments to supplement this report :` lt-A14--' <br /> - Comments attached. <br /> 1 <br /> Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) <br /> SUMMARY; <br /> Staff is requesting, with the recommendation of the Parks and Recreation <br /> Commission, approval to open Woodcrest Park ice skating rink activities <br /> this winter. The costs would be the hourly wage of a park attendant, an <br /> estimated cost of $2 , 348.50 for 427 hours from December 24 - February <br /> 12 , 1995. The rink would be a small pleasure rink. Preparation would <br /> include the installation of lighting off the park building. The Park <br /> crew, with the use of the water truck for flooding purposes will be able <br /> to establish and maintain this additional, small pleasure rink. <br /> (Pleasure rinks take much less time than hockey rinks because there is <br /> no need to shovel the boards, move boards and nets, etc. ) . <br /> Woodcrest Park has been without a rink for approximately 3 years. There <br /> have been requests from the neighborhood for skating facilities. <br /> Provision of a pleasure rink would serve the needs of those that live <br /> within the blocks from County Road H2 and County Road H, Long Lake Road <br /> to Silver Lake Road and perhaps further west depending upon ease of <br /> crossing Silver Lake Road. <br /> The Parks and Recreation Department is offering a new after school latch <br /> key program at the rinks (See information attached) . This program is <br /> being held in the park buildings, offering after school ice skating <br /> activities. It would be nice to be able to include Woodcrest Park in <br /> this program since it is the only location available to the children <br /> south of Highway 10. School District 621 is working out the bussing <br /> schedule to accommodate this program. <br /> MarySa. i• , <br /> , e of Parks, R creation and Forestry <br /> REOOMlVIENDATIOM <br />