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• <br />• <br />STAFF ORIGINATOR: <br />MEETING DATE: <br />TOPIC <br />VOTE REQUIRED: <br />BACKGROUND: <br />AGENDA ITEM 3Aiii <br />Julie Bartell, City Clerk <br />July 13, 2009 <br />Consider Resolution No. 09 -42, Approving a <br />special event and parade permit for 2009 <br />Blue Heron Days festival events <br />Simple Majority (3/5 Vote Required) <br />Plans are being finalized for Lino Lake's annual community festival, Blue Heron Days. <br />The festival will take place the weekend of August 22 and 23, 2009. Events scheduled <br />for this year's festival are a parade on Lake Drive, city ambassador program with <br />coronation ceremony, a petting zoo with wagon rides, medallion hunt, bike rodeo, <br />business expo and family activities at the Chain of Lakes YMCA. A special event <br />application requesting city permission to conduct these events has been submitted to <br />the city. A request for use of city property for the petting zoo, medallion hunt and <br />business expo and the related question of liability and insurance coverage has been <br />considered by the council. <br />The volunteer parade coordinator, Mr. Bill Combs, has been working with city staff on <br />the parade details and has provided the following information. He anticipates <br />approximately 60 units in the parade; the proposed route for the parade would be the <br />same as in 2008, running on Lake Drive from Marketplace Drive to James Street, with a <br />staging area in the Super Target parking lot. Mr. Combs has obtained permission from <br />Anoka County to conduct the parade on County Road 23 (Lake Drive). <br />The Police and Public Works Department have reviewed the applications and have <br />signed off on the permits with the understanding that the applicants will continue to <br />follow their instructions on safety, signage and parking up to and through the festival. <br />The applicant must also have in place all necessary permissions for use of property <br />involved in the event. <br />The attached resolution approves the special event and parade permits. <br />OPTIONS: <br />1. Approve Resolution No. 09 -42 approving a special event and parade <br />permit for the Blue Heron Days festival. <br />2. Deny approval of Resolution No. 09 -42. <br />