7.b Email Clarifying Vinterfest Disccusion
From: Charles Fischer <c.fischer@ci.scandia.mn.us>
To: Greg Zauner <moneyman@frontier.com>; Kyle Morell <k.morell@ci.scandia.mn.us>; Kirsten Libby
<k.libby@ci.scandia.mn.us>
Cc: b.stignani <b.stignani@ci.scandia.mn.us>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2026 at 10:07:19 AM CDT
Subject: Re: Vinterfest 2026 PW
Hi Greg,
The hours in the chart are all in support of or related to the Vinterfest event as listed in the
description. In the chart you will see 30 hours instead of 40 for the week prior and the week after,
these are all regular hours and pay rate subtracting the 2 hours per day of normal operation = 30
hrs.
All staff time after 3pm Friday and on site Saturday (minus 2 hrs for normal operation hours) is
overtime pay because it is outside of our normal working hours.
The cost for a pleasure skating only event would really only require office staff time and material as
rink maintenance would only need to include our normal operation of resurfacing the ice in the
morning, so there would be no cost associated to the event for this. I don't believe there would be
much set up cost for PW if this was a pleasure skate event so I would not put any cost to that as
well. It may not net zero for cost but would be a couple hundred dollars vs. thousands of dollars.
Thank you,
Charles Fischer | Public Works Director
City of Scandia
14727 209th Street N, Scandia, MN 55073
P 651.433.5223 | F 651.433.5112
c.fischer @ci.scandia.mn.us
www.cityofscandia.com
From: Greg Zauner <moneyman@frontier.com>
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2026 8:51 PM
To: Charles Fischer <c.fischer@ci.scandia.mn.us>; Kyle Morell <k.morell@ci.scandia.mn.us>; Kirsten
Libby <k.libby@ci.scandia.mn.us>
Cc: b.stignani <b.stignani@ci.scandia.mn.us>
Subject: Vinterfest 2026 PW
Thanks for the breakdown of expenses.
Just for clarification; when you say "normal operation hours have been omitted" are you
saying this is all overtime expenses?
If not, how much was spent on employee overtime?
I realize there wasn't a lot of time to make ice this year because of the weather. You
would also have limited time for making pleasure ice if that’s what we had for Vinterfest.
How much would it cost if we had open skating instead of a tournament?
Thanks