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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes April 9, 2008 Meeting was called to order at 8AM. Treasurer's Report: Jim Reported that there is $1833.42 in Treasury Secretary's Report: Amble parking in the first paragraph needs to be changed to ample parking. Roger Moved to accept the amended minutes, Fred Seconded. The minutes were accepted. City Update. Cathy Mehelich was present and told us that the Cities March parking study of the King Avenue Lot showed Ample parking was available for customers and employees. She also told us that the City would be starting work on the streets downtown on Monday April 28th and that she thought that the plan was to close the intersection on Jackson and Main from Monday May 5th to Friday May 16th. Discussion followed that when John Anderson and Terry Mauer had been at our April meeting they had a tentative date to close the intersection the Monday after Mother's Day. The week before Mother's Day is busy downtown and we had asked that they not close the road until after Mother's Day. Wendy will call Terry and verify the dates that the road will be closed. Stephanie Albin from the Park and Rec Department was present at the meeting and explained that the Park and Rec Department will be interested in Partnering with other groups for activities in the Park during the summer. The exception to this is that Rivers Edge Commons Park will be available to rent out for weddings. At this point the City is working with Thursday night concerts co-sponsored by The Bank of Elk River and First National Financial Services, Yoga in the Park co-sponsored by StudiO2. There will be movies offered again in the fall. The park department is looking at selling towels, t-shirts and magnets on concert nights. The Farmers Market will stay at Lake Orono. The Arts Alliance is planning on being open on Thursday nights and having activities prior to the concerts. Banners Downtown: We need to talk to Bryan Adams from the City about putting banners up on the light poles. Once we find out what kind of banners are acceptable we can look at ordering some to spruce up downtown. We should also ask the City of Elk River if they are interested in partnering in this project. The Downtown Elk River Sign on the Chamber of commerce grass needs to be spruced up and an arrow added pointing downtown. Other cities have decorative and artistic "way finding signs" pointing towards downtown, parks, and schools. We need to look into having signs like that around Elk River. New Business: Flowers/Art/Music/Lights: The lights on the trees on Main Street need to be replaced. Now that the weather is nice, it should be easier to do. Meryl has already purchased the replacement lights. The lights give Downtown a nice atmosphere. We would like to keep them on all year. We would like to get the flowers in pots earlier this year. The pots were left out this winter. We could use a couple of more pots down near the bluffs. Uniquely yours had a pot but it got moved by Thrivent. Meryl buys plants for the pots that can be replanted at Handke Stadium in the fall for their permanent gardens. If you would like to be