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ATTACHMENT 15 Task Force Meeting Minutes Meeting #� S��n�nary of Skating Center Task Force meeting 3/17/2005 Members excused for evening: Jeff Johnson, and Mark Kamrath, all other members present. Jake opened the meeting by mentioning the petition on the web written by the president of Midway Speedskating Club, petition now has over 800 signatures from all over the world. It was also mentioned that our state legislators are paying attention to who is signing this petition and may be willing to offer support to additions to thc bonding bill to cover the cost of OVAL repair. Jake also updated the task force on the 3/14 City Council meeting and their decision to table any action on the engineering assessment until the 3/21 work study session since council member Tom Kough was absent. At Tom Kough's request a representative from a second engineering firm, BEM, presented their proposal for the engineering assessment and information on applying for rebates from Excel Energy for the assessment. Lonnie reported that he hacl been made aware of the rebate potential and that city staff were already working on applying for the rebate- it is not certain at this point how much we may get back from Excel for the assessment. Scott Nelson will attend the 3/21 City Council work session and update the council on the work the task force has completed and also reiterate our desire to have the engineering assessment done in order to help our understanding of the OVAL situation. Leslie Berry presented information from the Roseville Visitors Association showing that the economic impact to the city of Roseville from the Jr. World Speedskating Championship held at the OVAL in Feb. of 2004 was $290,000.00. More than 600 hotel rooms in the city were used for this event. Nancy Nelson mentioned that we have lost the right to host the U-15 World Bandy Championships in January of20�6 but are still being considered for Women's World Bandy Championships in Feb. 2006. Lonnie Brokke informed the task force that the Park and Recreation web page will post notes from and agendas for the task force meetings. A mailbox will also be set up at the web site to gather suggestions from the community and entries into this mailbox will be distributed to all task force members. Lori Larson asked how input from the community and user groups should be addressed. Lonnie and Jake replied that any inputl suggestions we, as task force members, receive from members ofthe community and user groups should be brought up at task force meetings, we will also address the input from the web site mailbox at meetings, and reminded us to keep soliciting input from members of our user groups, these suggestions will help determine agenda and tl�ernes for upcoming task force meetings. Chris Miller, finance director for the city of Roseville, revised the information he had — gathered for the task force. This information is in three sections: the initial OVAL feasibility study; the OVAL financial operations for 1994 and 1995 when finances were — tracked separately form the arena; and the 2002-2003 Skating Center financial operations. Chris also included final comments. In the feasibility study for the OVAL it was noted ATTACHMENT 15 Task Force Meeting Minutes