Minutes from 01/21/08 HCP meeting

Minutes from 01/21/08 HCP meeting

Present: Joe Christiansen, Vicki Statz, Ernie Schmit, Craig Dewar, Nadine Schnettler

Topic	Discussion	Action Items
Grants: Initiative Foundate	FYI: Foundation approved full $10,000 grant request in December
Grants: Valspar Deadline is March 3rd	Joe will find out how much coverings may be needed for the covered bridge ·       Al from Lions Club estimates a total of 65 gallons of exterior stain will be needed for cedar boards used on siding	Craig will complete paperwork for Valspar grant (due at start of March) ·       Will send copy to Joe to share with Lions Club prior to submitting
Grants: Fishing Pier	DNR is offering grants for fishing piers. Counties, towns and townships are eligible. Stearns County is adding a new county park on (Two Rivers?) Lake. Info at:	Ernie will contact Stearns County to see if there is any interest.
Grants: Teen Driver Safety Deadline is May 16th	State Farm is offering grants of up to $2,000 to address issues on teen driver safety. Info at:	Craig will contact Pat Vandrovec at High School to find out if there is any interest.
Grants: News Ventures Deadline is Feb 20th	Grants of up to $12,000 are available for “innovative community news ventures”. Funding available for all types of media. Non profit and civic groups are eligible to apply. Follow up grant of $5,000 available in second year.	Mike: Can this be used for existing city web site, or for Historical Society?
Skateboard Park	St Rosa Lumber checked into purchase of SkateLite coverings. Would need to be in quantity to receive any type of discount.  Nadine mentioned there is a recent article in the Times regarding St Cloud skate park, and that Melrose is planning to build a park.	·       Ernie will find out how much needs to be ordered to receive a discount. ·       Craig will check with Foundation to see what other areas are interested in skate parks. Based on quantities, there may be enough interest to purchase cooperatively
Historical Society	Update from Mike?
Economic Development	·       (Ask Mike if this is a new project): 4 senior students from (St Cloud State?) will work on a Tourism/Business Plan as a project for Holdingford ·       Grocery store: potential contact Mason Grocers in Wadena
Garden Club	·       Designing welcome packets. Will include; school newsletter, coupons and local business information, information on churches, etc. Make available to citizens of Holdingford and Holding, Crane and Brockway Townships. ·       May make available to current citizens who are willing to pay for cost of materials ·       Stearns Count Park (Board?) will donate trees for along Lake Wobegone trail (by Meiers farm) if land has been herbicide free long enough	·       Check with Jon Halverson to see if he will donate materials if we pay for labor on benches and holding pond for statue.
Miscellaneous	1.     Increase participation by youth 2.     Potential new projects a.      Redo boxcar murals b.     Business murals (local contact: Steve Tschida) c.      River clean up	Craig to contact school (Mark Zelinski)
Tourism	This is not a committee but will be recorded here to keep track of the various activities that are in progress 1.     Covered bridge: Army Reserves scheduled for end of April/start of May 2.     St Cloud marathon: Interested in having Holdingford as the starting point (2nd week of May) 3.     Holdingford likely starting point for Caramel Roll ride if bridge completed by June	·       Joe will inform appropriate people for marathon and Caramel Roll ride of anticipated completion date for bridge

Agenda

1.     Grants

2.     Committee reports

a.      Status updates

b.     Funds required

3.     Next meeting: Monday 03/17/2008, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00