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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE OCTOBER 23,2007 PRESENT: Mark Jurchen, Ed Larsen,Nancy Adams, Sheila Haverkamp of BLADC, Elissa Rogers of BLADC, Patrick Smith,Justin Bolz-Andolshek, Cathy Malecha, and Dawn Bittner, and Sandy Peine 1. Call Meeting to Order The meeting was called to order by Chairman Ed Larsen at 8:00 a.m. 2. Consider 9/11/07 and 9/24/07 EDC Minutes A typo was noted in the 9/24/07 minutes pertaining to the size of the proposed Precision Water Jet building. The size should be 16,500 square feet. The 9/11/07 and 9/24/07 minutes were approved as corrected. 3. Review Mission and Goals (1) Discuss the pros and cons of an EDA versus an EDC The Committee felt that it would be prudent to spend an entire meeting, sometime in the future, to discuss the merit, requirements, and purpose of an EDA. The Committee felt eventually an EDA would take the place of the EDC. (2) Future Business Park Expansion Justin Bolz-Andolshek indicated that the PLADO has expressed an interest in working on a future business park expansion. The Committee indicated that this would be a future goal for the Committee. (3) Future vision for Pequot Lakes; where are we now and where do we want to be in the future? Develop strategies to move toward the future vision Patrick Smith indicated that the survey results from the Chamber/Region Five survey may be helpful in regard to this goal. Ed Larsen noted that there may be other documentation available that shows how the citizens of Pequot Lakes would like to see the City develop in the future. (4) Work toward streamlining the process for developers and perspective businesses that want to locate in Pequot Lakes The Committee concurred that this goal was important to assist developers and businesses who want to locate in Pequot Lakes.