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• PARKS REFERENDUM UPDATE: 8/13/97 ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING: Held August 5 with approximately 15 persons attending including representatives from Women's Softball, Youth Baseball, Youth Football, TRSA, and Girl's Youth Baseball. General strategy emerged during meeting: 1. To turn out 2000 to 2500 Elk River voters on September 23 to support the parks and trails referendum. 2. To work with Girl's Youth Softball, Men and Women's Softball, Youth Football, Girl's Youth Baseball, Youth Baseball and other stakeholders to turn out the vote through phone banks, mailings of flyers, personal contact and other means. 3. To develop "coming soon to your neighborhood park" signs that will be placed in each park and playing field due to be improved. 4. To have speakers available with a display at Chamber, Rotary, and other public speaking opportunities. 5. To have a presentation about the referendum aired on cable 6. To develop flyers which can be mailed out or distributed at public venues 7. To tell the referendum story through the local media, inserts in public utility bills, the Current, information booth at Community Ed sign-up, etc. 8. To have mini-exhibits in public places such as banks, grocery stores, etc. 9. To raise approximately $2700 to cover the following costs: • a. Design work on speakers display, park signs, mini-exhibits and flyers: $300 b. Construction of park signs, speakers display, mini-exhibits. $600 c. Print approximately 2000 flyers: $300 d. Placement of two 1/2 page ads in Star News/Shopper $800 e. Contingency $700 AUGUST 14 MEETING: Decision Resources will attend to review strategy and to offer expert opinion concerning organizing phone banks. Sample flyers and park signs will be available for review. Fine tuning organizational responsibilities and commitments will be a major agenda item. UNDERWAY: 1. VOTE YES FOR PARKS! has a Treasurer, Jerry Takle, and an account at First National Bank. 2. Some fund raising approaches to the private sector are under way 3. The City will be mailing out 5500 informational flyers with public utility statements next week. 4. An informational article will be included in the next issue of Current 5. Preliminary arrangements have been to have a booth at the September 6 Community Education Fall Sign-up. 6.An informational plug about the referendum is included in the Comm Ed Fall Brochure 7. Design work park signs and flyers which incorporate work by Cindi Edwards Plant, Phil Hals, Lana Huberty and Ron Westrum will be on display at 8/14 meeting.