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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes for Wednesday June 13, 2007 The meeting was called to order at 8AM in the Chamber of Commerce Meeting Room. Present: Jim Rudolph, Wendy Simenson, Dave Rymanowski, Tony Mikols, Bill Houlton, Jeff Gongoll, Heidi Steinmetz, Patrick Grace, Marcy VanValkenberg. Treasurers Report: $2491.22 in Treasury Secretary's Report: Minutes were accepted as written (Dave moved and John seconded) Old Business: City Update: Heidi told us that the Bluffs should be open some time in June or July and Jackson Place should be opening in Sept-Oct time frames. The streets should not need to be closed for road work. Fences will come down as buildings open. Parking Task Force: The task force has not met recently. A consultant is being brought in to look at the parking situation downtown, interview some business people downtown and observe the parking lots downtown the week of June 18th. He will then make recommendations to the City as to what the next steps should be to address parking issues Downtown Elk River. Marcy didn't understand why the Parking Task Force came up with the recommendations that they did. They didn't take into consideration that the downtown businesses had purchased the property that makes up much of the King Ave Lot. The businesses later deeded the lot to the city. No one has seen if there are any stipulations in the deed that directs the City in how the lot should be managed. Wendy said that many of the businesses downtown have parking available to them adjacent to their businesses for their employees. The Brick Block Businesses option is to use the King Ave Lot or cross Hwy 10. The MetroPlains people were at City Council meetings where downtown business people questioned the parking problems that would result from building on the Jackson Square Parking Lot. MetroPlains was asked about parking for their employees in their underground lots and they said that there would be some parking for the employees in those lots. Furthur discussion concerned the fact that the Parking Task force was given a list of tasks. One of the tasks was to "Develop and recommend policies for transition of employee parking to the periphery of downtown." The task force was not given the option of trying to make the existing parking lots work without requiring people to cross highway 10 or try to find unregulated street parking. The Police Department put up cross walk markers on the East Side of Jackson Ave on Highway 10. Wendy contacted the Police Chief to ask whether they would also be placed on the West Side of Jackson Ave. His response was that there would not be: "the crosswalk on the west side has both a turn lane and a southbound lane that travel over the primary center of the walkway. If we placed delineators there-cars would have to drive over them to make their turns. Wish we could-but not physically possible. The east crosswalk-although currently leading to the construction