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crossing Main Sheet at the stop signs. Tl1e Nutc~acke~"s in fi"ox1~ of Edward Jones attracted a lot of good attention, Vie could put up "Santa Allead" signs on Main Street to alert traffic, Tl1el'e Was d1sCll~s1011 about what Collld be hu11g Up Outside the pad."t~Clpat111g busi~lesses to nlal~e it easier for people to know who was participating -big wooden caYldy canes, It was suggested that ~1ext year we get money contributed front businesses for tri~lkets and candy to put in the gift bags and Dave an organized process to mare sure that they"e is a nice asso~~tnae~lt xn them. We will schedule a planning meeting for Halloween and Claristnlas 2010 in August and setup subcommittees to work on holiday events, NeW Business; Street DancelMusic in the pay"l~ Saturday July 17t1', 2010 This xs tl~e weel~end of the bile 1"aces downtoWll. We could have a "SUlnmer Fest" downtown with nlusic during the day, sldewall~ sales and other aCt1v1t1eS for the Vlsltors to Elk Rlver, Fled W111 c00Id111ate W~tl1 the police a~1d loop for a bazld for the evening. Depending wllo owns the parking lot along the river, we can loop at 1laving the street dance tl1e~"e so as ~aot to Have to blocl~ traffic on Main Street. Last time we had a st1"eet dance downtown, the City of E11~ River partnered with us and provided a reserve police officer, satellites and jersey barriers. We Will need to sell tickets to 11e1p pay fox" the evening baxld, We could see if there wee"e local or regional bands looking for performance time and Have a battle of the bands. Downtown Advertising Qptio~ls: Marlys from the Star News came and axaswered questions about a downtown business ad in the paper". one optio~l would be to do a list of businesses or coupons, Could do a newspaper ixasez~t or have it be an ad as a group for $725,00. If we wa11t to do an insert would be $G00 to distribute ~depe~ldi~ag ox1 the area that the inse~~t would go to We would Dave to decide if should go the Rogers, Gtsego andlor Zimmerman also,} plus cost of printi~lg. Downtown Business Get Together; Vie are going to schedule a downtown business get together - similar to the Chamber's after hours, fur goal is to invite all of the busi~lesses calla are located downtown so that we can get to know each other better, This will 11e1p us worl~ bettez" togetllex" ix1 planning downtown eve~ats and help us cross promote our busi~lesses more effectively, Sara said slle would check with the Bluffs management to see if we could use their party roo111, We11dy said she would check with the Arts Alliance about 1lolding tt there, If possible, we would 1il~e to hold it after our nleeti~lg on Feb 1011', ~fyi ~ this date did not work so We are rescheduling} Tl1e zlleeting was adjouz~led at 4PM.