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Agenda Section: 8•I <br /> ,`.cam REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION111llf <br /> Report Number: 94-1337C <br /> STAFF REPORT Report Date: 10-6-94 <br /> S:',,;ar Council Action: <br /> ' 0 Special Order of Business <br /> CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE October 10, 1994 0 Public Hearings <br /> I Consent Agenda <br /> 0 Council Business <br /> Item Description: Approve Operation of Woodcrest Park Rink Activities <br /> I <br /> Administrator's Review/Recommendation �\ <br /> - No comments to supplement this reports'' - ��� <br /> - Comments attached. '\ <br /> i <br /> Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) <br /> $UMMA1 Y; <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 /> ( <br /> • <br /> Mary Saario , 'ir for of Parks, Recreation and Forestry <br /> J ECOMMENDATION: <br /> To approve the operation of Woodcrest Park rink activities for 1994-1995 <br /> winter season. <br />