11-10-2005 Park Commission Meeting

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I mailed out 100 letters to area business and service organizations in our community. (Letter attached) So far we have received$600. Received a call from David Elsenpeter from Lakes Bank as a result of the letter he received. The Chamber of Commerce, Lakes Bank and hopefully Park Board will work together to light up our town. David from the Bank wants our town to look as good as Nisswa. He told me he will be contacting some businessmen to see if they will get on board. He would like to see us develop a program by supplying lights to businesses, or contract with someone to put all the lights up each year. He is also looking for funding. The Chamber will take care of lighting up the south end of the park, the Park Board the north end of the Park and hopefully we will raise enough money for new fixtures on light poles to alternate with our holiday flags. Would Faye and Melissa walk town with me on Mon or Tues and draw a diagram of where lights on light poles would go. If we don't raise enough money, maybe just hang the new fixtures along Government Drive. Dave also wanted to run a contest. We discussed the possibility with the Chamber of having a Winter Wonderland theme with snowmen and snowflakes. Putting the decorations up right before Thanksgiving and leaving them up through January. If we have a lot of snow have a snowman building contest77779 Or get someone like Tim Leajeld help us with some artificial snowmen. Open for discussion and ideas. Spring of 2006 ideas-Downtown plan to use the small area North of Pestello's as a welcome sign area to the city with some plantings, also we should be doing something with the area under the Bobber Water Tower seeing that this is the trademark of Pequot Lakes. Something for everyone to think about over winter....