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Rivers Edge Meeting Minutes Wednesday May 9, 2012 The meeting was called to order at 2:30PM in the Arts Alliance Meeting Room at 312 Jackson Ave. Present were: Dave Raymond Arts Alliance, Justin Femrite Elk River City Engineer, Steve Johnson ower 309 Jackson Ave. ,Jim Soderberg Granite Shores, Jennifer Open Reel Media, Earl Falk Granite Shores, John Stander Arts Alliance, Marcy VanValkenburg Elk River Travel, Tanna Anderson First National Financial, Tamara Ackerman Avalon Salon, Wendy Simenson Kemper Drug. Treasurers Report: $2326.57 currently in the Bank Secretary's Report: John moved and Tanna seconded that the minutes be accepted as written. The motion passed. Old Business: Downtown Task Force met and groups were asked to come up with their visions for the future of the area around the downtown. Staff is currently compiling those visions and the group will meet again after Memorial Day. Main Street Parking Plaza: Signage will be improved directing people to the available downtown parking areas. Signs will be bright blue. Power will need to be turned off for 2 hours to move the electrical that is currently running to the power pole that will be coming down. Annie asked for a time preference for shutting off electricity. The discussion was that 5 to 7AM would be the best time -but make sure to talk to Diamond City about how that will affect them. All the trees will have electricity available for holiday lights. There will be stone slabs like in Rivers Edge Commons Park for sitting on the Main Street side of the parking plaza. The Final Plan for the Plaza has a monument sign and a Business Kiosk Sign. There is not funding at this time for those elements. There was discussion of access and egress from the parking plaza once the alley entrance is closed. Concern was expressed about getting out of the lot at busy times. Vehicles parked in parking spots adjacent to the entry/exit often obscure vision of oncoming traffic. Park and Rec Update: The first Rivers Edge Commons Park concert will be the Brat Pack on Thursday June 7th at 7PM. The first farmers market downtown will be on June 28th. 20 Vendors have already signed up to participate. Plan is to limit vendors to the number that fit in the HRA parking area. August 7th is the neighborhood "Night to Unite." Stephanie Asked if we would be interested in having a party in the park that night. The police would participate and it would be open to the public. There will be a planning meeting on May 17th at 11AM at the Elk River Police Station to plan the events throughout the city that night.. Tamara volunteered to attend the meeting and come back with a plan for downtown. The Falt Elk River Activity Guide is getting ready to be printed. Downtown RiversEdge events will be included in the guide. Website, Facebook and Branding: The Elk River Cable Channel has been interviewing people throughout the City on the Powered by Nature Branding and why they are in Elk River and love to live and/or work in Elk River. They wanted to know if downtown businesses-would be interested in doing testimonials. The testimonials are being put on the Branding Blog and Facebook sites. The discussion was definitely in favor of them coming downtown. They will be using a big camera with big cables to do the filming downtown. Our facebook page is updated a couple of times a week. We need to have it be a more dynamic active page. Jennifer said she would spearhead a group to strengthen the facebook page and social media presence of the downtown. Tamara and Wendy agreed to work on this with her.