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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes May 11, 2005 The meeting was called to order at 8AM. Present were Mike Rafferty, Jeff Gongoll, Cliff Lundberg, Heidi Steinmetz, Terry Maurer and Wendy Simenson Treasurer's Report: $4251.62 Secretary's Report: Minutes were accepted as written with the exception of Mary Smith from the Arts Alliance speaking at our April Meeting rather than Laurie Beil. Old Business: City Update: The City Council agenda for its Monday, May 16`h meeting will include a vote on the construction plans in addition to other items related to the project. City Council Agendas and packets can be downloaded from the City of Elk River's Website after 2pm on the Friday prior to the meeting, or you can call Heidi at 635-1042. Meetings are also televised live on Cable Channel 12. Watch for the next Q & A newsletter as an insert to the June ls` Star News. Let Heidi know if you don't receive it. A sign will be installed this week on the corner of King & Main directing customers to available parking areas during the parking lot improvement project. Parking Lot Committee: The parking committee is in the process of firming up recommendations to the HRA on issues related to the parking lot behind the brick block. At this time they have 3 pages of recommendations. The recommendations will be presented at the June 6`h HRA meeting. Their recommendations will be available for viewing the Friday prior to the meeting. Let Heidi know if you would like to see a copy. Members serving on the committee were Keith Holme, Fred McCoy, Ty Sunderman, Tony Jarmoluk, John Houlton, Steve Johnson and John Anderson. Heidi Steinmetz staffed the Committee and Lisa Raduenz, transportation planner, facilitated the Committee. Revitalization/Parking Lot: Terry Maurer, Elk River City Engineer, came to get us up to speed on what to expect during the parking lot reconstruction. The City Council will vote on the parking lot construction plan at its May 16`h meeting. If all goes well, the lot should be completed by July 4th. He is expecting a 30 day construction timeframe. He said their plan was to do the parking lot in sections so it would stay partially open during construction. When all the areas have been prepared, the entire lot will be sealcoated at one time, swept up the next day and restriped the day after We shared with Terry the need to have the parking lot available for parking the weekend of June 18"' and 19`h for the sidewalk sale and Art Soup parking. Under the current plan we will see: King Avenue exit and entrance from highway 10 permanently closed (this will prevent people from using it as a through street and disrupting traffic and also will give us about 7 more stalls). Entrance into the lot will be behind Avalon and also at King and Main Street. Exit from the lot will only be at King and Main Street (emergency vehicles would be able to exit from behind 1 S` National Financial Building). There will be two exit lanes. One for turning each direction on Main. There has been discussion about putting stop signs at the intersection but the lot will be