Update / Follow-up on the news

City-sponsored roller hockey will end this spring because officials were not able to reach an agreement with the private company that has operated the program at Del Obispo Community Park for the past two years.

City Council members rescinded a four-year agreement they had offered to Walnut-based Power Play Street Hockey Inc. to build and operate a $250,000 covered roller hockey facility at the park.

The current agreement with Power Play expires June 30. After that, the roller hockey program will be discontinued, said Bonnie Nicholl, Dana Point’s community services manager.

Power Play officials said they turned down the city’s contract proposal because the project would have been too expensive.

Since the city began the roller hockey program in July 1994, participation has increased from 60 children to more than 500.