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RiversEdge Meeting Minutes April 11, 2007 Present: Tony Mikols, Jeff Gongoll, Heidi Steinmetz, Wendy Simenson, Sharon Hovorka, Bill Houlton, Jim Rudolph, Dave Rymanowski, Ross Demant (Parks), Patrick Grace(ER Arts Alliance) Treasurer's Report: $2335.35 in the treasury Secretary's Report: Accepted addendum to minutes clarifying that the King Ave Lot has been posted no parking 2AM to 6AM. Minutes accepted as changed. Old Business: City Update Heidi told us that the buildings were proceeding on schedule. Parking Task Force: Dave Rymanowski told us that the Parking Focus Group's recommendations were presented to the City Council at its Apri19, 2007 meeting. The parking changes are being made in anticipation of the opening of new businesses in June in the new buildings downtown. Dave told us that interested retail tenants were put off by their perception that there was not enough parking close to the available spaces. The Council unanimously approved the following recommendations: Reduce parking time limits on street and in the King Avenue lot. Enforce weekday and overnight parking regulations. Relocate downtown resident and overnight guest parking to city lots north of Highway 10 by free permit. Limit issuance of employee permits for the King Ave lots to 150percent of available permits) Issue permits by application quarterly at a rate of $10 per month starting with one per business property owner, then using a round robin approach. Provide some communications to promote employee use of safe and available parking location alternative. Council agreed to buy one parking boot for enforcement of unpaid parking tickets (Each unpaid parking ticket is $24. The court doesn't send it to collections unless it is $26 or higher.) The Council decided against the purchase of emergency pull-posts at this time. The parking regulation and permit system will be re-evaluated quarterly. Cones will be placed in the crosswalks on Highway 10 and Jackson Ave to remind auto traffic to yield to pedestrians in cross walks. The Bank of Elk River has been parking across highway 10 for sometime now and the cones on Main Street have helped them feel safer. The City Council directed to the parking focus group to research building a ramp downtown. Ramps are very expensive to fund and there were questions on whether there would be a charge to park in the ramp. Ross Demant has been planning the events to take place in the new downtown park. The park should be able to seat 200 people on the stone seats. Additional seating will be available on the grass on the side of the seats, on the platform at street level and behind the stage. There is not a