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• area will need to be fenced in order to monitor attendance which relates to obtaining fees and revenues to pay the operating expenses. The season pass, daily fees, and other such rates can be worked on at a future date. If the site near Gary Street works, then the city could save some costs on the construction of a parking lot by using (and improving) the existing parking facilities which may include the county fairground parking lot. One cost savings that will most likely be necessary is to have the aquatic center not include a diving well. If we can reserve space for this facility, it may be something that can be added in the future. The basis for this comment is that the diving well is high in price and low in usage. Another thing that the city could be responsible for that could be excluded from the bond proposal is the sand play area which hopefully can be constructed by the city street crew. Any public information regarding a proposed referendum can be put together and financed by the city. Any "vote yes" information needs to be funded by an outside agency. This bond proposal effort will require some fundraising and outside funds much like it did last year. One issue we need to review is a video to run on Cable TV. We can run the video on the public access channel (Channel 16) and we can also run the video on the city channel following the tapes of the City Council and EDA • meetings. This video should include some footage of an active aquatic center such as videotaping the Anoka facility on a nice day when it is full, and also some of the parks and trails which are scheduled for improvements. Logically, the video would include an introduction and some concluding comments which should involve some Commissioners. Including some graphics, charts, and figures in the video should also help explain the proposal. If the video can be put together in August/September and run in October, it may help promote the issue. Some of the other public information items that took place during the last referendum need to take place this time. This includes an informational (or vote yes) flyer being in the utility bills which are distributed in mid to late October. Additionally a newsletter article which goes out in early September is appropriate although limited information will be available for this article as it needs to be completed by mid August. The Business Expo is tentatively scheduled for October 17 and a bond referendum booth seems appropriate. The other bond referendum informational components include articles in the Star News, presentations, signs in city parks, and toward November 3, a phone bank. A committee needs to be established and a strategy meeting held in the not to distant future. •