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<br />MEMO <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor & City Council Members <br />Kim Stephan ~ <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Centennial Youth Hockey Association's Request for Funding <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />February 2, 2006 <br /> <br />The following excerpt and recommendation is from the February 1, 2006 Parks & Recreation <br />Committee Meeting. <br /> <br />Ms. Lisa Hocker!. Centennial Youth Hockev Association <br /> <br />Ms. Hockert made an appearance to discuss the Centennial Youth Hockey Association's goal to <br />accomplish a new ice arena for the Centennial Community at the Schwan's Super Rink expansion in <br />Blaine. Also in attendance was Mr. Paul Erickson who is with the National Sports Center. <br /> <br />Currently, the Centennial Youth Hockey Association (CYHA) has 668 players, 550 families, who <br />skate at the Centennial Arena and the Schwan's Super Rink. The CYHA and teams are renting up to <br />700 hours (over and above local rinks) at arenas in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fridley, South St. Paul and <br />East Bethel; at times up to 25 miles from home. The association would rent more hours if they could <br />find them. The CYHA has made a down payment to secure rights to 860 prime hours on one of the <br />new rinks at the Schwan's Super Rink, which will open in October 2006. Ms. Hockert reported <br />Centennial is the 1 ih largest out of 160 youth hockey associations in the State of Minnesota, and the <br />largest association in Minnesota Hockey's District 10. The new sheets would be NHL size; the <br />existing four (4) sheets are Olympic size. <br /> <br />Mr. Erickson gave a brief history on ice rinks in general, such as there 280 indoor ice arenas in <br />Minnesota, of which 80 were built on city property and are owned and operated by a city. The cities of <br />Lexington, Circle Pines, Centerville and Lino Lakes have never been involved in an ice arena business, <br />though the school district built the Centennial Ice Arena, which involved tax payer monies. The City <br />of Andover has recently built an indoor ice arena which cost $4.2 million and is completely owned and <br />operated by the City. <br /> <br />When the Schwan's Super Rink was built in 1998 it involved six (6) cities and two (2) counties. Four <br />(4) sheets of ice were built at the cost of $750,000 per sheet. Mighty Ducks Grants were available at <br />the time, which reduced the price to $500,000 per sheet. With the first build, the CYHA purchased Y2 <br />sheet of ice for $150,000. <br /> <br />lof2 <br /> <br />p <br />