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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes Wednesday April S, 2009 Meeting was called to order at 8AM in Bluffs Community Room. Present were Fred, Jim, Dave Raymond, Donna, Tony, Wendy, Roger, Deb Rydberg, Annie and Rebecca Haug Treasurer's Report: Jim reported that the April Balance was $2,941.71. Secretary's Report: January Minutes were accepted as written. Rebecca Haug, the City of Elk River's Environmental Administrator made a presentation to us about conserving energy. She said that rebates are available for homes and businesses purchasing new energy efficient appliances and lighting. www.elkriverutilities.com Vance Zehringer at 635-1330 can help with Business Energy Audits. Elk River Energy City's new program is Project Conserve. Thirty families were selected to participate in a pilot project to extablish moey saving techniques regarding energy, solid waste and transportaion through "reduction." Project Conserves 5 year goal is to reduce electric use by 20% and gas use by 5%. Grants have gone to homeowners using alternative energy sources. Eventually Energy City would like to include businesses in Project Conserve. Currently people come from all over the world to visit the landfill gas electric generating plant located at the Elk River Landfill and also Riverview Farm which turns cow manure into energy. Elk River is holding their annual Energy Exp Saturday, April 18th Old Business: ArtSoup: Dave Raymond from the Arts Alliance reported that The Arts Alliance will be holding ArtSoup, their community art festival, in Downtown Elk River on Saturday, June 20. They are planning a one day event this year. It will go from 11AM to 8PM. Similar to past years, there will be music and entertainment in Rivers Edge Commons Park. Jackson Ave will be closed between Highway 10 and Main Street for the day. Artists Booths will be put up on Jackson Ave. There will be a tent in the parking lot behind the Arts Alliance Gallery with art done by area artists. The old O'Reilly building will house a juried art exhibit. There will be a member artist show in the Arts Alliance Gallery. Another tent will be set up by the bottom of the park and will house Community Education and other community groups. Applications for Artist booths, Juried Art Show and Food Vendors are on the Arts Alliance Website www.elkriverart.or~. In 2007 there were 40 art vendors and several thousand visitors at Artsoup. All of our downtown businesses are invited to join in. The Arts Alliance is looking for businesses who can partner financially and/or with their physical presence at the event. Ads will be sold for the program. Sponsorships for performances will be available. The target market for this event is residents from Elk River and surrounding communities. The Elk River Lions Club is working on a Medallion Hunt for ArtSoup to help promote the event.