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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987-11-10 Park Board Packet1I11 OF EDINA 4801 WEST 50TH STREET, EDINA, MINNESOTA 55424 612-927-8861 EDINA PARK BOARD 7:30 p.m. November 10, 1987 Edina City Hall AGENDA I. Approval of Minutes of October 13, 1987 II. Grove Street Open Space Property (presented by: Judy Semsch) III. Wooddale Skating Rink IV. Council's Approval of Adaptive Recreation and Braemar Golf Course proposals V. Other I?LVK ATWOODDA16—E aw. MOdwio awal vo /71 l � �Jl�ur�-✓ q� QJ�- .r - .1 Al�r cai� v ,7s5, � f/ �Y? O �1 46015 eclrcOn , jcrhh -� b U % C�s�Jr� °�� .� -- 7 )e/ cel � 6 c 6 -��h1-7 I - N� J-rV-�n;Q,,� q�- c�� ki J- t rd IC l �G� G�r� �y-,I r � ��2.� � ter; � � rr--�J 5-7 8 Wooddale Ice Skating Rink Petition Summary of Children Survey taken from Edina Sun directory. Names on petition were cross referenced to names in directory to get children ages. P�I���-���ate Total 1969 1 1970 8 1971 4 1972 8 1973 13 1974 14 1975 8 1976 9 1977 8 1978 3 1979 4 1980 10 1981 9 1982 6 1983 9 1984 6 1985 2 1986 4 *No Age Given 99 _ Student _5 Total Number of Children 230 == * Of the total in the no age given category, 50% have birth dates earlier than 19701 and 50% did not report. STAFF REPORT Wooddale Skating Rink Size: 100' x 100' No Warming House Skating rinks are classified in two different categories of maintenance. Our main area of concentration is the hockey rink -general skating rink combination of which there are nine areas. Maintenance starts the Monday after Thanksgiving, weather permitting. There are three areas without warming houses that we flood and maintain which we call second class areas. The maintenance procedure for the second class areas is to flood them starting some time in the latter part of December or during Christmas vacation. If weather permits and all of the first class rinks are in skatable condition, we then proceed on the second class areas. If all weather conditions are ideal using 0 degrees Fahrenheit as a good flooding condition, a rink at Wooddale Park would take approximately two weeks of flooding with approximately 25 hours of actual flooding time devoted to this area. After the ice is in a skatable condition, we then sweep once a day and also flood approximately five times a week. In looking at an ideal winter season if we would have the Wooddale rink skatable by January 1, this rink would be skatable until approximately the 15th of February, or 6 weeks. If we tabulate the cost of maintaining the Wooddale skating rink, it would take 25 hours of ice build-up before the season starts, about 25 hours of continuing ice -making for the six-week season, and approximately 25 hours of sweeping: 75 hours x $12/hour = $900 cost to have a rink at Wooddale Park. This is under perfect weather conditions --which means no real severe cold weather and no build up of snow (4 to 10 inches) which creates more maintenance hours.