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chamber on an event to help promote Elk River and the available financial incentives it offers. It can also be used to received Continued Educational credits if the EDA partners with MNCAR. Business Retention Expansion Visits $ 800 This will include local Familiarization Tours via the Positively Minnesota Marketing Partnership (PMMP). The PMMP is a special group of professionals who support the vision of promoting the Minnesota brand to corporate real-estate executives and site selection consultants involved in expansion and relocation decisions.The budget has not changed from 2014. Promo items $9,000 There is a $300 increase over 2014 due to more trade show appearances, upgrades in giveaways to include an iPad for the purpose of obtaining business cards and to put together city welcome bags which will be handed out as a thank you.With the increase in trade show opportunities there is a need to order more items and to have a more targeted strategic approach that will attract more people to the trade table serving to stand out from the crowd. New items for 2015 include Wad and city welcome bags. Special Events $8,000 There is a slight increase over the 2014 budget due to adding a new Broker event. Special events proposed for 2015 include: Energy City Business of the Year, Manufactures Week events—"Dream it Do it" tours, Business Roundtable event(s) specific to manufacturing, Elk River Business Expo, and a Special 4th of July photo contest. Sponsorships $8,000 There is a proposed reduction of$1,000 due to the elimination of the Ehlers conference which is now Springsted and a cost adjustment for the MNCAR expo. MNCAR Expo $1,500 MREJ Data Center Summit $1,500 MREJ Energy Summit $1,500 Springsted Conference $500 EDAM Conferences $3,000 EDA owned property $7,200 The ERA owned property line item does not change from 2014 but there is a more focused approach to marketing city own property.The Conway Data expense is an advertisement in a Data Center Site Selector specific magazine which has over 49,000 subscribers and over 30,000 online subscribers. LoopNet is a property marketing program similar to ZoomProspector but has more features to help market/promote EDA owned property. There is$2,550 allocated for a new sign and/or an upgrade to existing signage.