5. HRSR 10-02-2006 - Laserfiche WebLink

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2. Post the first section next to the Brick Block as 1 hour parking and enforce in 8AM to Spm seven days a week. 3. Post the rest of public parking in the lot as 3 hour parking and enforce from 8AM to SPM seven days a week. The recommendations were emailed and dropped off at downtown businesses for their comments. There were no negative comments on recommendation 1. Many people complained about recommendations 2 and 3 as there are people who get their hair done, shop, eat lunch etc. which can easily add up to more than three hours. It was also thought that it would be confusing to have different time limits in the same parking lot. The consensus was to table recommendation 2 and 3 for the time being. Also discussed was the difficulty employees are having finding parking spots in the employee parking area and then parking in the customer area. The Police then give tickets to these cars because when they mark tires there are spots available so they assume that the employee could have parked in employee parking but chose not to. A suggestion was made to let the police know when the lot is full so that they can be aware that there are times when the parking lot is full. Sharon (St Maximillan's) suggested that we add more employee parking spots by eliminating some of the customer parking spots. We discussed this option but weren't very excited about taking away customer parking. Especially since when Jackson Square is completed, they won't have any customer parking adjacent to their building and their customers will need to park somewhere. We need to brainstorm options for employee parking now -are there other sites available to employees to park? The lot on the other side of highway 10 is being used for construction parking - is it possible that some of those spots could be allotted for employee parking? New Business: Fall Winter Events: We talked about having another downtown event this December and inviting Santa and Penguins this year. Wendy will see if the Penguins are available. Financial Aid to Businesses: Wendy contacted the Sherburne County Assessor (Gerald Kritzek) to see if it was possible to get tax relief for downtown business properties. Many businesses had indicated that their traffic and revenues have been down during construction with Main Street being closed to traffic. She had not heard back from him at the time of the meeting and will hope to have something to report at the next Rivers Edge Meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 9:03 AM