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ATTACHMENT 15 Task Force Meetin� Minutes April 14,2005: Skating Center Task Force — meeting #4 Jill Antang excused, all other task force members present, guests: John Goedeke and Pat Johnson-Nygaard Brad and Lonnie opened the meeting by pointing out the presence of the Hobey Baker Trophy honoring the year's best college hockey player awarded to Marty Sertich, Roseville native, former Roseville high school hockey player, Mr. Hockey in Minnesota 2001, now a junior at Colorado College. The Sertich family is allowing the trophy to be displayed at the Roseville Skating Center until the awards banquet in Minneapolis on May 19 —Congratulations to Marty! Brad noted that last meeting's summary stated that the arena chiller would be replaced in 2006, actually the arena floor is scheduled for replacement in 2006, not the chiller. Lonnie presented an update from the engineering task force. Stephens Engineering is finishing up the task of analysis and evaluation of options for repair. The technical task force will be meeting in the next few days to discuss Stephens' findings and hopefully be ready to report to the City Council at the April �� meeting. Lonnie passed out a potential timeline for repair depending on what is decided by the technical task force and City Council. Lonnie also reported that they have applied to �cel Energy for rebates on the engineering study but have not yet heard how much of a rebate we will receive. We received updates on the e-mails received via the mail box set up by Parks and Rec. All task force members are now receiving copies of these e-mails and they are being kept in a binder at Park and Rec. offices. The online petition is still receiving signatures. It was also noted that the next 2 City Council meetings would be "town hall" forums and it is expected that residents will express both positive and negative opinions about the Oval. Next, former City Council members John Goedeke and Pat Johnson-Nygaard gave us the historical perspective of the construction of the OVAL. Mr. Goedeke reported that a task force was formed in 1983 to examine the feasibility of building a speedskating oval in Minnesota. This task force was forined at the request of then Governor Rudy Perpich who had a vision of providing training facilities for every Olympic sport in the state of Minnesota. Mr. Goedeke chaired the committee to place the speedskating oval in Roseville. Other cities, most notably Burnsville, Blaine and Edina, were also competing to win the ovaL The cities presented their cases before Ramsey county officials, Met Council members and finally the state legislature. Roseville won the opportunity to build the ovaL The state was to pay for the construction of the facility and Roseville would pay for the operation. Roseville had chosen the Kent St. site for construction of the oval, this was a more frugal design than the other cities had offered. The actual construction of the oval had to wait for 2 legislative bonding sessions before finally getting bonding approval. First the legislature approved developing the ski jump site at Biwabik, next the national skating center in St. Cloud, and finally 6 years later bonding for the John Rose Minnesota Oval was approved. While waiting for approval to build locations other ATTACHMENT 15 Task Force Meeting Minutes