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Rivers Edge Meeting Agenda Wednesday September 14, 2016 2:30 PM Granite Shores Communitv Room Treasurer's Report: $7238.39 Secretary's Report: The August minutes were accepted as written. Old Business City Update: Amanda: EDA is receiving many inquiries and requests for information for projects being developed to begin activity in the spring — industrial and commercial developments. Blue Egg closed — no update on individual who was interested in the building, possibly some interest from another bakery. At our last meeting we requested a budget for downtown improvements and an update on streets, parks downtown. No street improvements is planned. $12,000 allocated for downtown "Mississippi redevelopment framework plan" — may be some -room in that budget to share costs with downtown businesses for putting benches or bike racks downtown. Downtown Businesses would need a more narrowed project list which could go presented to HRA to be included in next years budget. Downtown Parking: It has been the impression that many of the parking spots on Main Street and Jackson Ave that should be left open for customers are being used by employees and owners of businesses. Some of the businesses downtown are paying for parking permits to park in the employee section of the King Ave lot. Amanda suggested that parking in the right spots be enforced by individual business owners not the city. Unfortunately some of the people who park in customer parking are business owners and residents. In order to ascertain whether the parking permit requirement to use the lot is causing employees to park their cars on the street, it has been suggested that we don't require businesses to have parking permits to park in the employee section of the lot. We would still expect businesses to keep their employees from parking in the customer parking areas. We could then encourage all businesses to park in the lot without having the impediment of having to have a permit. Motion to eliminate parking permits in the King Ave lot for 2017 to assess the impact. Fred Moved, Wendy Seconded motion passed. Wendy will send a formal request to the city council. Another problem with parking in the lot is that Residents over Old Main and Pompeii aren't parking in the Overnight Resident parking along highway 10 for residents. This causes a major problem for the snow plows. Fred will talk to people renting residential to let them know where residents should move.their cars to on snow days, and possibly get them connected with the city so they could receive an automated call reminding them to move their cars. The City would also like downtown businesses to try to get sidewalks shoveled early in day (by 3am... ) so that the snow doesn't end up in gutter line after the plows have gone through and form icy banks. Fred suggested that the city run a small side walk shoveler so they are cleared before they plowed. We would need to request the council to do that? Is there someone else who can provide shoveling services at that time — possibly Plaistads. Zach is meeting with landscape designer about Hwy 10 side of King Ave lot- meeting with landscape designer for tall grass — 5 ft tall. No indication about whether there are plans to improve sidewalks on the northwest side of King ave lot. ERMU Will look at replacing Light poles in 2018 downtown. Not guaranteed to happen.