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fNFORMATfON Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes April 13, 2011 Meeting was called to order at 2:30PM at Edward Jones Conference Room. Members present: Sandi Yeado (Edward Jones), Fred McCoy (McCoy's Pub), Jim Rudolph(Bank of Elk River), Wendy Simenson (Kemper Drug) Stephanie Albin (City of ER Park and Rec), Debbi Rydberg (ER Chamber of Commerce), Annie Deckert (City of ER Marketing and Business Development Administrator) Tanna Anderson (1St National Bank) Treasurer's Report: $2,487.87 Secretary's Report: January Minutes were accepted as written. Park and Rec Update The first concert of the season will be on June 2"d at RiversEdge Commons Park. Rubber Soul, the Tribute will be performed. There will be a tie-die theme and everyone is invited to wear tie-died clothing. Stephanie brought copies of the magnetic calendar for the Downtown Concert Series to the meeting. Also brochures for the Fallen Oak SK Bike Race on May 22 at Hillside Park. She also let us know that Pinewood Golf Course has remodeled its Clubhouse and is open for play. Softball will start on Apri125th and will go until August. A Second Softball Season will start in August and run until October. The City of Elk River is purchasing the Parking Lot along the River behind the Old First National Bank Site to provide for additional parking downtown. Park and Rec is looking for grants to purchase the Bailey's Point Property that is where the Elk River and Mississippi River converge. Park and Rec Department had 115 applications for the Director position. The city has narrowed it down to three and we should have a new director soon. The Elk River Fall Program Guide will be going to press soon. We have the dates of downtown Halloween celebration as Friday October 28 from 10-5 and Santas visit scheduled for Saturday December 10th from 12 to 3PM. We discussed making Halloween a shorter day and decided to leave it until SPM and businesses that want to stop earlier can take the "Welcome Trick or Treaters" sign out of their window. We also discussed sponsoring an ArtCrawl downtown in the fall -and it was agreed that it was a good event and should be repeated. Wendy will contact the Arts Alliance and see if the artists are interested in doing this again. Deb recommended that we get a RiversEdge account with Explore Minnesota so that we can get more widespread publicity for our Downtown Events. Hwy 169 Bridge Construction Justin Femrite, The City of Elk River City Engineer, informed us of the planned closing of the Highway 169 southbound bridge over Hwy 10 in June. The work is expected to take about a month. Justin has been in contact with MnDot to try to make it take the shortest amount of time as feasible and cause the least amount of disruption. The recommended detours will be posted on the Chamber website or read about it in the Star News http://erstarnews.com/2011/03/22/summer-construction-will-close-highway-169-bridge/ MnDot is redoing the Guardrails. The Northbound bridge will have 2 way traffic on it. Southbound 169 to East 10 will detour to Main Stret. 10 West to South 101 detour will be Main Street to Parrish and through Otsego. 10 East to North 169 will use Main Street to Hwy 169. City Update from Annie: Art Soup can market along the Northstar Corridor if Art soup coordinates transportation from station site to downtown. Can advertise ArtSoup with painting on O'Reilly building window