Once the baseball camps wrap up – time to rip up the cement floor in the Oliver Arena, assess damage of the brine pipes and design a temporary fix until a final decision can be found to fund the repair.

The building is 50 years old and a leak was detected recently in the brine/ice cooling system.

Two votes last night at the Oliver Parks and Recreation Society:

1. Get a cost estimate and options on replacing the whole dry floor, brine system and re-do.
2. Staff authorized to make a temporary repair – concrete removal on east end of rink – fix pipe and lay in sand. Ice will be laid in after that for the ’15-’16 season. In the spring the big job would commence after funding is secured and permission granted by the Regional District in a budget process.

The smaller of the two jobs could cost $30 thousand and that is not in the 2015 budget placing the Society in a delicate situation. There is money in reserves but not for that building.