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• • • STAFF ORIGINATOR: MEETING DATE: TOPIC VOTE REQUIRED: INTRODUCTION CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM 3C Lisa Hogstad - Osterhues, Deputy City Clerk July 22, 2013 Consider Resolution No. 13 -84, Approving a special event, parade permit and excluded bingo permit for the 2013 Blue Heron Days festival 3/5 Plans are being finalized for Lino Lake's annual community festival, Blue Heron Days. The festival will take place the weekend of August 16 -17, 2013. BACKGROUND Events scheduled for this year's festival include a 5K Run, a grand day parade on Lake Drive, city ambassador program with coronation ceremony, a petting zoo, CERT Team Blood Drive, Centennial Fire Open House, Magic Bounce inflatables, a business expo, Polynesian singer, bingo, kiddie carnival, dance studio singers and dance presentation, family movie night, live music, YMCA Splash and Dash and Waldoch Farm garden tour. Many of the activities for this year's festival will occur in the city's own Lino Park. A special event application requesting city permission to conduct these activities has been submitted to the city by Tanya Mozingo, Recreation Supervisor for the City of Lino. The use of of city property has been approved by Rick DeGardner, Director of Public Services, and City of Lino Lakes for some of these events. Liability and insurance coverage has been submitted to the League of Minnesota Cities for their review. Tanya Mozingo, Recreation Supervisor, has been working with city staff on the parade details and has provided the following information. She anticipates approximately 75 units in the parade; the proposed route for the parade would be the same as in 2012, running on Lake Drive from Marketplace Drive to James Street, with a staging area in the Super Target parking lot. Ms. Mozingo has obtained permission from Anoka County to conduct the parade on County Road 23 (Lake Drive). The Rotary will be sponsoring bingo after the parade in Lino Park this year. Non - profit organizations are allowed to conduct excluded bingo with local approval of a permit. Mr. John Pechman has submitted a permit application that will be forwarded to the state if approved by the council.