The Shakopee Youth Hockey Association has continued to operate the concessions stand at the Ice Arena through a partnership agreement.  By operating the concession stand they offer services to those attending events at the ice arena that would be cost prohibitive for the city to operate while also providing some revenues from sales to lower some of the operational costs that is passed on to Shakopee families who participate in the community youth hockey program.  

SYHA has had difficulty in the off-season from hockey (March-August) to generate the engagement from hockey-family volunteers to meet the agreed service delivery plan for the ice arena concessions.  Therefore, paragraph F of the regular agreement is modifed to allow them to partner with other sports entities as needed and/or pay workers to staff concessions to support the service delivery agreement.  The modifications are bolded and underlined below:

F.             SYHA agrees to provide all manager(s), supervisor(s), attendant(s), and other personnel for its Ice Arena concession operations, and train those personnel in food preparation and handling procedures as required by any and all government agencies.  Such attendants or other personnel may include workers for hire or volunteers not otherwise associated with SYHA, provided SYHA shall not be absolved of its responsibilities hereunder during such time a worker for hire or other volunteer is involved in SYHA's ice arena concession operations.  SYHA also agrees and understands that nothing contained herein creates or establishes the relationship of copartners between itself and the CITY and that it is an independent contractor, and its officers, managers, supervisors, volunteers, attendants, and other employees are not employees, agents or representatives of the CITY with respect to any services performed under this agreement.  Such workers for hire, personnel, other personnel associated with SYHA, or volunteers not otherwise associated with SYHA shall not be entitled to any compensation, rights, or benefits of any kind whatsoever from the CITY, including, without limitation, tenure rights, medical and hospital care, sick and vacation leave, Worker’s Compensation, Unemployment Compensation, disability, or severance pay and PERA.

Staff requests that the Mayor and Council approve the updated Concession AGreement with Shakopee Youth Hockey Association for 2023-2024 (expiring May 31, 2024).