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MEMO TO: Mounds View Parks and Recreation Commission FROM: Staff DITE: January 3 , 1984 RE: Winter Skating Program • The 1983-84 winter skating program is off to its best start in City of Mounds View in the past five years. We largely at- tribute this success to the four additional staff we were .able to retain through our MEED grant from the State of Minnesota . With the addition of the four maintenance employees , we have been run- ning a double shift and our ice is in good condition . In spite of the heavy snow and cold weather , we were able to open our skating rinks on Saturday, December 17 and have been offering a full agenda of rink activities for the past three weeks. We are once again receiving a great deal of assistance from the Groveland Park Foundation as they have been flooding the pleasure rink with the City crews maintaining the snow plowing and broom- ing . We have also experienced a positive response to the build- ings and it appears that they more than meet our winter warming house needs. • We have made three improvements to the buildings that seem to greatly enhance the program. The first is installing plastic sheeting on all the windows which has reduced the heat loss out the windows. The second improvement has beer, increasing the landing and stairway entrances at each of the parks. The third improvement has been to Lambert Park where we installed a Casa- blanca fan to keep the heat fan down at the ground level . We look forward to building on our initial good start with the winter skating program and feel confident that we will be able to offer a very positive and beneficial recreational program ata nominal cost to each of our Mounds View residents during the com- ing months. BKA/sll i IIII lMMlIlIIl1liIl....ilillIllIlI.11' .'‘ .