Shakopee is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment at the Ice Arena for all customers and staff. To ensure the safety of all customers and staff, we developed a COVID-19 Preparedness Plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with Executive Orders from the Governor of Minnesota, and implementation guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Our goal is to mitigate the potential for transmission of COVID-19 within our facility to protect our community.  Customers enter the facility and can access Rink 1 without having to touch anything, high volumes of customers must touch the doors to access Rink 2.  A sliding door on Rink 2 eliminates customer risk of contact and eliminates the costs to sanitize the Rink 2 doors each hour.

Since reopening the Ice Arena on June 1st following the 75 day COVID-19 closure, the Ice Arena has had 48,243 visitors.  Staff has worked diligently in support of our preparedness plan, which demands the active sanitizing of any touch points in the facility.  

A sliding door to Rink 2 eliminates the risk of a high volume touch point - reducing the risk of potential exposure for customers and staff, and eliminating the cost of time and materials to clean those doors every hour.

Greystone offered a lower estimate of $21,075.00 but their estimate excluded substantial additional expenses such as: engineering/structural design; architectural design; permits/inspections; temporary enclosure; and any mechanical/electrical/fire suppression work. RJM's estimate includes all of the above - and they have the engineering/structural and architectural designs from the sliding door project on Rink 1 which they completed in 2019.  Consequently, RJM is intimately familiar with the full costing of this project - which enables the City to forego the added expenses of unforeseen and hidden costs with the Greystone bid to keep the total project cost down.

This $35,999.00 project would be funded by CARES Act funding, and RJM Construction can be completed by November 15, 2020.  

The sliding door entrance to Rink 2 improves our ability to provide a safe and healthy environment at the Ice Arena for all customers and staff.  This project meets the requirements for CARES Act funding, and should be completed as soon as possible