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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes December 1, 2010 Meeting was called to order at 3PM at Edward Jones Conference Room. Members present: Nicole Fox (Nicole's Salon), Sandi Yeado (Edward Jones), Fred McCoy (McCoy's Pub), Jim Rudolph(Bank of Elk River), Annie Deckert (City of ER Economic Development Assistant), Wendy Simenson (Kemper Drug)Tony Mikols (Dare's)Stephanie Albin (City of ER Park and Rec),Tanna Anderson (First National Bank), Shirley & Vivian (The Great Room) Treasurer's Report: $3,570.71 Secretary's Report: Fred will bring minutes to next meeting. City Update: Annie Deckert brought us information on upcoming City events in December. She also told us that The City of Elk River is creating a citywide branding committee to help promote the vision of the City. Downtown Parking Permits will need to be renewed in December. The Energy Expo will be held on March 5th from lOAM to 2PM at Elk River High School. Ron Schara will be speaking. RiversEdge again has the opportunity to have a booth and offer items for the prize wheel. Annie also encouraged the Arts Alliance to come up with some "Art from recycled objects" that could be highlighted. We need people to volunteer to set up and sit at the RiversEdge Booth from l OAM to 2PM. The City will be setting up a recycling container for pop/water bottles downtown in the spring before the concert series starts. Stephanie Alban Park and Rec: Park and Rec will be hiring a Santa this year instead of using a park employee. We need trees and decorations for the Park. We could get some this year to use again in the future. Park and Rec has a chair for Santa. The Sleigh will be put in the park. The Great Room has artificial trees we could borrow. Sandi said that she has tree stands that would be available to use. Fred and Robin said they would look into borrowing a real tree. People who can help set up should be in the park at LOAM on Saturday Dec 4th. Mary Bakken is our contact for Gifts Anonymous and will have containers in the park for gifts. Wendy will confirm with Hemker's for the animals. Main Street Preservation: Nicole is working on facebook page and she and Wendy are planning to get together to look at website options and to see if there is a way to pay dues online. New Business ArtSoup: Is Scheduled for Saturday June 19, 2011 in downtown. Stephanie reminded us that a request needs to be made with Tina from the City to reserve the park that day. Other: Uniquely Yours is closing on December 4th . We will miss Donna's presence downtown. The Bank of Elk River was recognized for their extra contribution to help support the Holiday Downtown Celebration as well as their putting Shop Downtown Elk River in their Bob Radio spot for the celebration and afterwards. First National Financial was recognized for their extra contribution to help support the Holiday Downtown Celebration as well as the time and talent that Tanna took to design and print the poster for the event. Robin was recognized for going out and procuring and "planting" the flower pots in a winter style. Also a Big Thank You to the City of Elk River and Stephanie for all her extra work in getting the Downtown Holiday Celebration put together. The meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted by Wendy Simenson Acting Secretary