Earlier this year, City staff brought a problem to the City Council. The problem was that we had figured out that we were losing substantial amounts of Freon from the freezing system that froze the ice in Rink #1 at the Community Center. Figuring this out meant that we had to address the problem because it’s not legal to discharge Freon into the air and because discharging Freon into the air is a waste of money.
The City staff did some quick assessment of the problem and put prepared a solution based our discussions with vendors,experts and building contractors. When we brought the issue to the City Council to inform them of the problem, we also shared with them our proposed solution: Take out the concrete rink floor and install a new freezing system in a sand floor.
Our Parks & Recreation Director Bob Lambert, in his presentation to the Council about our proposed solution, estimated the cost of this project to be about $430,000.
We totaled up the actual cost of the project last week. It was $429,178.
Hey Bob. Not bad.
