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We discussed adding more Bike racks downtown. There is already one by the Sunshine Depot and one by Avalon. Would it be of benefit to add one by the river? Amanda quoted a price of approx 564. Would like colorful arty bike racks. Would like to see ones that are currently in place updated. The consensus was that we needed to add 2 more matching flower pots. Put one by Magnnussen LLC 350-550 per pot. (we will get bids in the spring for both summer and winter plantings) Decorative Lights on street lights: Amanda and Jennifer meeting with contractor on Tuesday. Parking Permits, where to park, signage: Subcommittee created to discuss parking changes met prior to the regular meeting to discuss ways of communicating to all downtown businesses: the benefit of leaving downtown street parking for customers; Better Signage for Public Parking; Maps with designated employee parking and customer parking; Designate employee parking (no permits required); Designate Customer Parking; Time limits on parking spots (2 to 3 hrs uniform ), City is already working on Wayfinding Project. Included in this is better signage directing people to the downtown area, better signage for public parking and the removal of all street 2 to 3 hour parking signs. Elk River no longer has a parking ban on over night parking on streets (code red phone calls for snow emergency when no street parking allowed). There was confusion between the Wayfinding Plan that the City of Elk River had been working on to provide better signage directing people to downtown and the inclusion of removing all parking control signs in downtown (i.e. there will no longer be “no overnight parking signs”, “3 hour parking only”, ”2 hour parking only.”) We had been focused on removing monetary requirements for downtown employee parking permits in the King Ave lot and didn’t realize that part of the discussion that the city was having was to remove all signage. The fact that all of the parking signs were coming off the streets in downtown was never made an agenda item or clearly communicated in our Rivers Edge meeting discussions. Wendy requested a poll of the members at the meeting as to whether they were in favor of having the signs removed. 6 of the 7 Rivers Edge members at the meeting voted to keep the 3 hours parking signs – Jennifer abstained from voting. Wendy was directed to contact RaeAnn Gardner, Communication Director at City of Elk River 635- 1000 to let her know that we are not in favor of the controlled parking limits being removed from downtown. Jennifer said she would talk to Cal Portner about our concerns. The meeting was adjourned at 3:45PM