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• <br />• <br />CITY OF ARDEN HILLS <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: Monday, February 28, 2000 <br />TO: Thomas J. Moore, Parks and Recreation Director <br />FROM: Michelle Olson, Program Supervisor MO <br />SUBJECT: 1999/2000 Ice Rink Statistics <br />Attached you will find the final attendance statistics for the 1999/2000 Ice Rink Season. <br />I have also included statistics from the 1997/1998 and 1998/1999 seasons for comparison <br />reasons. The season was scheduled to run from December 20, 1999-February 13, 2000. <br />We did not get the rinks up and running until Thursday, December 23, 1999 due to warm <br />weather. <br />I. Attendance <br />� Outdoor Ice Rink Usage has gone down each of the past two years: <br />Year <br /># of Days Open <br />Total # of users <br />+/- from <br />previous year <br />1997/1998 <br />47 days <br />5,955 Users <br />+17 <br />1998/1999 <br />45 da s <br />4,582 Users <br />-1,373 <br />1999/2000 <br />47 days <br />2,795 Users <br />-1,787 <br />3 ear Average: <br />Avg. 46 days <br />I Avg. 4,444 users <br />These statistics do not include the large number of broomball players from <br />Bethel. They rented 66 hours for their broomball intramural league. The <br />rental fee was $15.00 per hour. The total cost was $990. These games <br />were played after hours on weeknights throughout the rink season. <br />czrl Attendance for general and hockey skaters remained steady from last year. <br />C�V_ We showed a significant loss in attendance for broomball from last year <br />(1,870 in 1998/1999 compared to 360 this year) and a big part of the <br />reason was that we asked that the Bethel teams practice during non-public <br />use times. This was done in an attempt to keep the ice free for the <br />community during our public use times. We found that Bethel was <br />blanketing the ice during public use times and this was discouraging the <br />community users. <br />