The City of North Battleford is purchasing a new Zamboni for its arenas. (File photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

By Angela Brown

Capital investment

City of North Battleford to replace one of its Zambonis

Mar 15, 2021 | 2:55 PM

The City of North Battleford is purchasing a new Zamboni to replace an older machine that has been experiencing some problems.

At its recent meeting, council approved administration’s recommendation to purchase the 2021 Zamboni model 446 ice re-surfacer, with a level ice automated precision blade control attachment, from Fer-Marc Equipment Ltd., based in Regina, for $134,816, the lowest of two bids received. The city budgeted $165,000 for the purchase.

Administration managed to save $30,000 on the purchase from what was budgeted and will also be able to make some money by selling one of its surplus machines.

The last time the city purchased a new ice re-surfacer was in 2013.

“The new ice re-surfacer will reduce down-time and costly repairs on the current equipment,” city operations fleet and maintenance manager Seton Winterholt said in his report. “The automatic ice level attachment will provide operators the opportunity to provide quality ice more easily at the arena.”

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Coun. Greg Lightfoot commended administration on its work on the bid process and coming in under budget.

“It’s good to see some savings were made on that purchase,” he said.

The city currently has three ice resurfacers for the Access Communications Centre Arena and the Don Ross Centre Arena. With the purchase of the new Zamboni, it will be able to sell the older surplus machine.

Winterholt indicated the city might be able to make approximately $10,000 to $15,000 in the sale which is an optimistic estimate.

Mayor David Gillan mentioned perhaps the Town of Battleford might be interested in the surplus Zamboni as well, if they have a need for it.

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angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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