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Someone from Park and Rec will drop off Schedules for the Downtown Music Series to Downtown Businesses. In addition to the regularly scheduled Thursday night music, one Tuesday night a month a local band will be featured. The Wylie Band will Play June 22, Elk River German Band will play July 20th and the Moose Knuckle Band will play on August 7th Stephanie verified that the Halloween Celebration downtown will be on Friday October 29th from 10 to 5 and that Santa will be downtown on Saturday, December 4th from 12 to 3. She will put that information in Park and Recs Fall/Winter Program Guide. Street Dance/Music in the Park Saturday July, 17th: Fred is organizing information and getting prices. Stephanie said that Lamont Cranston is available and would charge $2000 for that night. Fred suggested that we schedule them and we will look for a sponsor or request donations from the downtown businesses for the music. Information could go to the riders of the bike race scheduled for the 18th when they pick up their registration info. And would be posted at the bike park. Since it is a state park program, we won't have access to the riders information prior to that time. Flowers Downtown: There are currently 12 pots on the downtown side of the tracks and 1 pot at Bread of Life and 1 at the Old Post Office. Wendy will talk to Bread of Life and ask if they would we willing to substitute a pot from the Chamber for the existing pot so that all of the pots downtown matched. We could do the same at the Old Post Office. Wendy will also try to find out who at Jackson Square apartments is responsible for doing flowers in the planters that are in their wall. Robin was not at the meeting but Wendy will get her this info. New Business: Kay Reynolds from Vernon Sales Promotion shared information on types of displays that they could provide us for RiversEdge marketing. They can provide everything including tabletop displays, sails, embossed table throws, retractable banners, banners with gromets and more. There is an $85 set up fee plus the cost of the different products. The Colored Plastic Full Color Banners run about $4 a square foot. Sails run from $239 to $549 each and would be suitable to use outside or inside at a RiversEdge sponsored event. She could connect us with a graphic designer who could make us high pixel images for $200 to help put together an attractive marketing piece. Jim Rosman gave a slide presentation on the value to River Cities of making the Mississippi Navigatable to Clearwater. He feels that it would encourage more tourism in the area and make it possible for people to come downtown by boat. He has been talking to community groups along the river to drum up support for his efforts. He has also been talking to local, state and national government officials to see what the barriers are to dredging a 4 foot channel in the Mississippi and keeping it open. For more information about his presentation visit http://www.historicrivercities. com/missis sippi-river/mississippi-river-navigation-project The meeting was adjourned at 4:30PM. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 12, 3PM at Edward Jones.