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Home My WebLink About1994 06-07 EBDM Earle Brown Days Brooklyn Center Minnesota 301 Shingle Creek Parkway 5430 (612)569-3400 y Earle Brown Days Meeting Minutes June 7, 1994 PRESENT: Kragness, Bergeland, Neilson, Pollock, Ditty, Holcomb, Dorff and LaCrosse. The meeting was called to order at 7:38 a.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: There was a motion b Neilson, seconded b Ditty to Y Y Y approve the minutes of May 24, 1994. Motion carried. AMBASSADORS: LaCrosse reported $4,760 in donations so far. ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: Bergeland said she had a request from a crafter for a refund. Bergeland said she has been in the show in the past and has indicated an interest in being in it next year. There was a motion by Ditty,, seconded b Pollock to Y issue her a refund. Motion carried. • There are 70 crafters and 5 food vendors. A Latin American band has offered 1 to play for free in return for selling their tapes. They will play both days. Wendy, Bingo the clown and McGruff will also entertain. They are still working on getting a face painter. Neilson will check with some of his contacts. Bergeland still has people calling fora applications. She said there may be some PP Y complaints this year because people will not get as large of space as in the past. This is due to more crafters. They will still get at least 10 by 10 which is what is advertised. She should have enough volunteers. BARN DANCE: Kragness needs to order the goodies. She does have chamber volunteer t- shirts.Kragness will use the volunteer t shirts. She would also like to give out a certificate of appreciation to volunteers. Arts & Crafts Fair committee would also like to give them out. Everything else is set. LaCrosse will check with Arnie Mavis to see if they can use the hot dog machine. Graham arrived at 7:53 a.m. BINGO: Flyers are done and Ditty will be the caller. • 1 CAR SHOW: No report. ICE CREAM SOCIAL: No report. • JUNIOR ROYALTY: Graham said there are 17 candidates. Their first parade is this Thursday at Spring Lake Park. They have also added Champlin and Fridley parades. They will make an appearance at Children's Hospital and the official judging begins Tuesday. There was no donation for the judging dinner. It will be held at Bridgeman's. Graham would like to consider purchasing the EBD t-shirts for the judges to identify them to parents and children. Cohen arrived at 8:05 a.m. Ditty said the polo shirt would cost $12 and the cap $3.75 if anyone wants to order. He said he is negotiating with Doug at BCHS for coronation. It will now cost an additional $80 for a sound person. FISHING CONTEST: He is ready. AMBASSADORS: Cohen asked what the additional expenses were. Ditty said about $500 for the teen bop dance. LaCrosse said the parade committee would be spending the whole $7,500. It is not indicated on the budget sheet because Risley didn't know how much the radios would cost or what some of their other expenses will be. • PARADE: There are 83 units. PICNIC/GAMES: Dorff has 22 business contributions. K-Mart requested fire and/or police cars to have in the parking lot sometime during EBD. LaCrosse contacted the police and fire departments and they are working on it. Cummings arrived at 8:25 a.m. PUBLICITY: LaCrosse passed around a copy of the ad going in the Osseo/Maple Grove Press and said the one going in the Anoka Shopper will look similar. She also said she is working on the ads for the Star Tribune and is running the ad in the festival column two weeks because the cost of ads went down at Osseo/Maple Grove Press. Also the festival column appears in all papers, not just the north zone. She also asked committee members to take posters to display at work or at businesses in Brooklyn Center. She said the cable ad will start next week. They want to tape footage this year to have a better ad next year. She asked what events the committee would like to have taped keeping in mind they will only tape 3 to 4 events. The committee decided to see if the craft show, barn dance, picnic/games and car show could be taped. Alternate events 2 would be the parade and fireworks. Swanson arrived at 8:32 a.m. She said the committee needs to decide on a price for the t-shirts. There was a motion by Ditty, seconded by Bergeland to charge $8 for the shirts. Motion carried. Swanson said City Watch will go out one week before EBD and will have the schedule in it. SUNDAY IN CENTRAL PARK: No report. TALENT CONTEST: Neilson said there are 49 contestants. Next year he would like to call the dance studios to find out when the recitals are because he thinks we could pick up more entries by working around those dates. TENNIS TOURNAMENT: No report. NEW BUSINESS: Cummings said she has three checks that have/never cleared and they are all parade checks. They are check #1023 payable to Zuhrah Patrol for $200, check #1035 payable for prize money for $200, and check #1037 payable for prize money for $100. Ditty will check with isley about the checks. � -- \ w �'P'- �A . There is a balance of $14,894.28 as of 6/7/94. APPROVAL OF BILLS: BHK & R Insurance $1390.50 All American Drum & Bugle Corp Band Judging-parade 260.00 C&K Screen Printing T-shirts 659.00 American Speedy Print Posters 44.73 Trophies By Linda Name badges-craft fair 28.75 Prime Design Logo design 900.00 Kentco Signs Signs-junior royalty float 474.95 Proex Slide film, developing 166.09 Neilson & Ewald Dacotah band-barn dance 1500.00 Bev Wilson Line dance instructor 100.00 Potpourri Floral Flowers-junior royalty 171.33 Kragness said people should bring their requests for cash for cash boxes at the next meeting. There was a motion by Dorff, seconded by Ditty to approve payment of these bills. • 3 Motion carried. NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, June 14, 1994, 7:30 a.m.,City Hall Conference Room A. ADJOURN: The meeting was adjourned at 9:05 a.m. Respectfully Submitted, Sue LaCrosse City Liaison • 4