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.,� REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION <br />-STALE REJ�Qjn <br />CITY COUNCIL. MEETING DATE October 10, 1994 <br />item liesenpnon: Approve Operation of Woodcrest Park Rink Activities <br />Administrator's Review/Recommendation: r� <br />- No comments to supplement this report�� •�' <br />- Comments attached. } <br />Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) <br />SUMMARY - <br />Agenda Section: 8 • I <br />Report Number- 94-1337C <br />Report Date: 10-6-94 <br />Council Action: <br />C Special Order of Business <br />C Public Hearings <br />k^ Consent Agenda <br />C Council Business <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 />Mary Saarion, i <br />iix l t li . f <br />of Parks, Recreation and <br />Forestry <br />To approve the operation of Woodcrest Park rink activities for 1994-1995 <br />winter season. <br />