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Rivers Edge Downtown Business Meeting May 13, 2015 Meeting was called to order at 2:30 PM in the Granite Shores Community Room. Present were; Steve Benoit (City of Elk River Park and Rec), Rhonda Magnussen (Law Office), Annie Deckert (Decklan Group), Jennifer Wagner (Open Reel Media), Matt Pagh (Integrity Insurance Group), Steve Swan (Elk River Health and Nutrition), Shanna Donnette (Worth Repeating), Allison Moser(Arts Alliance), Stacy Reiseck (Arts Alliance), Tamara Ackerman (Avalon Salon), Amanda Othoudt (City of Elk River), Colleen Eddy (City of Elk River), Wendy Simenson (Kemper Drug) Treasurers Report: Secretary's report: Minutes were accepted as written. City Update: Amanda got revised bids for downtown lights. Strategic plan on EDA agenda for meeting this Monday. Demolition Loan program in the works. Housing Tif passed. Budget discussions coming up. Two bids Rainbow Holiday Design and Emerald design. HRA said that they would give $ 4000 towards lights for trees and poles downtown. Both new bids are for c6 Icd warm lights. $5595.00 from Emerald and $4400 from Rainbow Holiday Design. Two strands per pole. And 2 to four strands per tree. Motion for Rivers Edge Business Association to contribute the $400 difference between Rainbow holiday design bid plus the maintenance for a year. Jennifer moved Annie seconded motion passed. Amanda will make sure all of the outlets work. Lights will be on 365 days a year. Requests for HRA monies need to be into HRA by June 1St to be included in their 2016 budget discussions. Park and Rec Update: We will soon be getting emails from park and rec to see if your downtown business is interested in promoting itself at concert series. Michael Hecker downtown park project: clarifying that is a concept. Hoping to accomplish phase 1 this year to add additional seating In the park. Renovation would not take place until fall of 2015. If we can't do the seating extention this year, won't take trees out. Once seating is approved the tree moving will be addressed. ArtSoup: Stacy passed out posters and sponsorship forms for Artsoup. Quite a few booth applications have been turned in. Outside vendors for food plus local restaurants. Free fun for the whole family. Juried art exhibit. Balloon artists, music, kids art, Art for sale. There will be shuttle service from the high school to downtown. Big baseball tournament at Lake Orono Park that weekend — would be beneficial to have the event posted at the tournament. Rivers Edge promo items. 350 people in community took survey — people want tshirts, sweatshirts, travel mugs, shopping bags, pens, calendar of events with downtown promotions. Annie suggested having a subcommittee: Rhonda, Colleen, Jennifer and Tamara said they would help. How much do we want to spend. Suggestion for committee to ask businesses how many they would be willing to sell. Postcard with facebook picture page?