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ATTACHMENT 15 <br />Task Force Meetin� Minutes <br />Jill reported on open skating and how it is essential to the mission of the Parks and Rec. <br />department, it provide opportunities for individuals to skate without joining clubs or <br />organized leagues and is necessary for balance in programs offered. During the winter <br />the OVAL is open approximately 80 hours each week, there are weather and maintenance <br />limitations on when it can be open, 30 hours of open skating are provided, 20-30 hours of <br />a combination of hockey and open skating, 10 hours of open speed skating. As many as <br />4000 people use the OVAL per week, averaging 230 for open speedskating and 1000 per <br />week for open skating. Greatest use is in the evening, during the daytime hours there are <br />open skating session and schools rent ice for outings, although transportation costs have <br />caused a decrease in school usage. During the summer season the aggressive skate park <br />is open only in the evenings until school is out and after school ends is open 64 hours per <br />week for the skate park and i�line skating or hockey. May 6 will be the opening date this <br />year, as we saw during the tour the skate park is in the process of being assembled. <br />Maintenance of the skate park ramps is done regularly. The arena is open 48 weeks of <br />the year with 4 weeks for maintenance every year during August and early Sept. Paid <br />admissions show that 28,000 people per year take advantage of open skating. <br />In discussing upcoming meeting dates, agendas and themes Jake reported that he would <br />like to bring in John Goedeke, a former city council member who was instrumental in <br />getting the OVAL built. Mr. Goedeke will report at the next meeting. We are starting to <br />wrap up the information gathering stage and starting to look at themes for further <br />discussion, these themes include: generating revenue; corporate sponsorship; looking at <br />the role of the state in financing taking a regional center approach to marketing, <br />fundraising; possible tax support; grants; events for fundraising tournaments and <br />tournament proceeds; concessions. It was suggested that we could bring in a resource <br />person to help us understand what corporations look at when they consider providing <br />sponsorship dollars, possibly Mike Neely with the MN Wild. <br />Finally, John Kysylycyn presented 3 papers dealing with local sales taxes and state-local <br />relations to the task force. He also mentioned a 1987 article from the Roseville Review <br />which stated the OVAL would "break even" when it began operation, and that a local <br />sales tax was supposed to have been put into effect but never was implemented. He <br />stated his belief that the state realizes the economic impact of the skating center while <br />there is little economic impact to the city. A short discussion af tax issues followed. It <br />was pointed out that a local option sales tax of up to %a percent could be added. Most <br />local option sales taxes are expected to be used for capital expenditures but could be used <br />for other purposes such as general operations. A local sales tax of %z % could generate <br />approximately 5.5 million per year, the tax would generally apply more to families with <br />children than to the elderly, and most likely 70% or more would be paid by non-Roseville <br />citizens. The task force will most likely consider tax options as it explores possibilities to <br />generate revenue for the skating center. <br />ATTACHMENT 15 <br />Task Force Meeting Minutes <br />
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