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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes July 13, 2011 Meeting was called to order at 2:30PM at Edward Jones Conference Room. Members present: Sandi Yeado (Edward Jones), Tammy Andrews (The Bank of Elk River), Nicole (Nicole's Salon), (Fred McCoy (McCoy's Pub), (Bank of Elk River), Wendy Simenson (Kemper Drug) Stephanie Albin (City of ER Park and Rec), Annie Deckert (City of ER Marketing and Business Development Administrator), Vance Zehringer (Energy Consultant Elk River Municipal Utilities), Ross Pomeroy (Project Conserve, Elk River Municipal Utilities) Treasurer's Report: $2488.43 Secretary's Report: City Update from Annie: Can advertise Halloween, Xmas and ArtCrawl with painting on O'Reilly building window if we cover the costs of painting and cleaning them off. Citywide Branding: The City of Elk River is currently undertaking a branding process for the City. Chandler Thinks is the company which was chosen by the EDA to help them with this project. The brand and marketing research part has been completed. Steve Chandler will be presenting the results to the branding subcommittee on July 18th Once the City Council approves the branding, there will be a train the trainer session on September 13th to train people and get them involved in spreading the brand throughout the community. City of Elk River is doing a Satisfaction Survey for Elk River Residents. They will be asking residents to rate city services, indicate how they receive information about things happening in the city and help identify City Council Goals. Link to the survey: httn://www.ci.elk-river.mn.us/index.asp?SEC={CI 103599-CB67- 4011-8034-DF45F7B5417E}&Tvpe=B BASIC or www.ci.elk-river.mn.us The Government Shutdown has .affected Elk River. One of the ways has been that the City can't issue plumbing or electric permits. The City Council will be voting on a stop gap measure that will allow the City to issue permits in times that the State isn't doing so. The City is implementing a Volunteer Program. The purpose is to get more people involved in seeing how the city works and to get residents more involved. The Frame Shop that was located in Jackson Square Closed. The Bluffs now has 22 units rented. As the units become rented, MinnWest Bank is finishing another 5 to 6 units to rent. The City is working on recruiting more restaurants to our area. They have set up a SAC/WAC funding program to spread the payments over 5 years at low interest. rather than making the business pay that money out upfront before they open. Project Conserve: Vance Zehringer and Ross Pomeroy came to our meeting to invite RiversEdge downtown businesses to participate and support the Project Conserve program from Elk River Municipal Utilities and the City of Elk River. The first phase of the program started in 2007 where 31 residents were given the opportunity to work with the help of the Utilities department to reduce their use o£ electricity, gas, water, garbage and transportation fuel. The project was a great success with many of the residents decreasing their use by more than 26% in the first year. Phase 3 of this program is being expanded to Commercial Businesses. The Utilities will offer a free walk through energy audit opportunity -they will look at lighting hvac, building envelope, garbage use etc.