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ARC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Meeting Minutes
October 7, 2014
2:30-4:30 PM
In Attendance:
Board Members: Gordon Gerson, Brooks Bryant, Karen Dillon, and Sue Smedstad.
Staff Member(s): Erin Hutchings, Bryan Lee, Jeffrey Alden and JoJo Smith
Public: No public
I. Call to Order – Sue Smedstad called the meeting to order.
Committee member comments and announcements: December 6th is the Figure
Skating Invitational here at the Lewis.
Public Comments: No public
Staff Comments: No comments
Approval of Past Minutes: Meeting minutes were approved.
II. Discussion Items:
1. Concession Operation Interviews: Two potential applicants were
interviewed. The first applicant is Gheorghe (George) Chistol. Both he and his
wife have had some experience with the food industry. He took time to
educate himself on the current operation. He spoke on numerous occasions
with the current concessionaire to get the details of the operation. He would
like to start with the way it is and make gradual changes as he sees necessary.
He also saw a potential in birthday party bookings and would like to grow that
aspect of the operation. George would like to also get information on all of the
special events coming through the facility and tap into that market. His wife
Larisa would be the main person running the operation.
Mawa McQueen from Mawa’s Kitchen was the second applicant. One of her
current clients is the private jet operation at the airport. She saw the
concession area as a potential to be so much more than it currently is. She
would ripe out most of the existing fixtures and turn the storage room into an
area for making fresh sandwiches, smoothies, salads and other items not
currently available. She stated a juice bar would be great as well. Mawa saw
this as a possible place to have a restaurant that people would come to because
of the great food. She had not met with the current operator to get information
on how the current operations and clientele associated with it.
2. Waste Heat Recovery System LIA: This system has never worked correctly.
There will be more work done on this system soon to make it operational.
III. Updates and Progress Reports:
1. Financial Report: Jeff sent out the financial report prior to the meeting. No
one had any questions.
2. Business Plan Update: No new information until the November meeting
3. Recruitment of the Ice Facilities Manager: Bryan Lee, the former ice
facilities supervisor has been selected as the manager. Several applicants were
interviewed and Bryan was selected shortly after that. Having someone who
is already familiar with the current operations is a bonus.
4. Air circulation in Aquatics area: During the fall closure Brad and his staff
rebuilt parts of the air handling units and replaced the old motors with larger
ones. This should really help with the air circulation in the aquatics area.
Brooks mentioned having specialists come in and check out the issues rather
than perform and analysis after analysis would be good. He would like to have
these specialists come to the next meeting.
5. Water Slide Replacement: As much as everyone would like the slide to be
new for the upcoming season, this project will not take place till the
springtime. The time-frame for a possible fall installation had too small of a
window to make sure it was done before the holidays.
IV. Action Items:
1. Concessionaire Recommendation: The advisory committee is unanimously
recommending Gheorghe and Larisa Chistol to replace the current concession
stand operation. Tim will take care of notifying the applicants of the selection.
V. Other Business:
Meeting Adjourned at 3:55 PM
Next regular meeting date and time: November 4, 2014 at 2:30 PM