Well - let me put my hands up for you to put nails in them - but I have a hard time every day finding the cost of opening /or closing our rinks as a very serious budget consideration as each day carries on. On the ice story, we (the Mpls Park and Recreation Board) find the most useful period of time to have ice up and running is during the Holiday School Break and Holiday/celebratory season. There are many different holidays celebrated by the over 80 nations represented in Mpls so at some point it becomes Winter - 90 days give or take at the beginning or end. It cost us money to set these up - maintain them, run them, security and all that--- and then there is the question about rinks on ball fields which really doesn't happen too much anymore but never-the-less maintaining ice - tell me about it? Now, before all of you sports/hockey folks yell at me - please tell me, how am I suppposed to justify cost versus use and efficiency? For something that is not very many days of the year. And then should we talk about ice fishing - when the ice is thin - Please do not go out on the lakes yet. Responses welcome, Annie Young Mpls /city wide park Board Commisioner ----- Original Message ----- From: dsndrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Iced out
> We're told that Pearl Park won't open for skating until Jan. 1 (because > the ground wasn't frozen earlier). > Dick Saunders > Diamond Lake > > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
