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Meeting Minutes
December 17, 2010
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1. Call to Order
Deno Howard convened the meeting at 7:30 a.m. Present were: Bob Facente, Bill Henry, Sandi
Fleck, Troy Presler, Terry Gutowski, Adam Blahnik, Joe Passofaro, Mike Myser, Danette Parr
and Frank Boyles
2. Approval of Minutes
Motion by Passofaro, second by Henry to approve. Unanimously approved.
3. Old Business
a. C -2 District Parr indicated that the Council has met to review the ordinance amendment.
After considerable discussion, the matter was directed to a City Council work session. It was
generally acknowledge that the committee's attendance and comments were valuable at the
Planning Commission
b. FDA Member Appointment— Mayor Myser indicated that eight persons had applied for three
vacancies. All were interviewed. Four have been interviewed by the City Council and he will
make his recommendation to the City Council on January 3, 2011.
c. Downtown Park and Ride —Parr reported that the staff had been asked to look at potential
transit parking lots downtown. The Pleasant Avenue site was reviewed. Questionnaires were
sent to businesses. Three large businesses expressed opposition. The staff was directed to
continue looking.
d. CR 21 Cost/Benefit Analysis —Parr indicated that reports had been prepared on three options
to reconfigure CR 21. Maxfield is preparing a cost impact analysis to see whether one option
or another will be of greater benefit to the City in the long term.
4. Other Business — none
5. New Business
a. Bylaws and Objectives for 2010 — Blahnik suggested changes to the EDAC bylaws in sections
1.02, 4.01 and 4.02. These revisions will be submitted to the Bylaws and Compensation
subcommittee for Council consideration. Howard reviewed bylaws revisions including
showing #4 complete and #9 complete.
b. Meet and Greet Feedback — considerable discussion occurred regarding how to move forward.
Members wanted to select items for improvement that were indeed actionable.
c. The committee broke down into two subcommittees as follows:
Downtown 6 Areas
Meet and Greet
Sandi Fleck
Joe Passofaro
Adam Blahnik
Bill Henry
Deno Howard
Troy Presler
Mary Vierick
Deno Howard
Terry Gutowski
Bob Facente
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The subcommittees will meet to synthesize their findings and come up with a list of: 1)
priorities, and 2) actionable items. The subcommittees will report to the whole committee on
January 28.
Downtown 6 Areas subcommittee to meet at 7:30 a.m. January 20. The Meet and Greet
subcommittee will meet at 7:30 a.m. on January 11. Passofaro will send out the rough list
The Downtown 6 Areas subcommittee will keep the number, but remove the names and
comments without blending or paraphrasing.
6. Review Objectives
Howard indicated that objectives 4 and 9 were complete.
The meeting adjourned at a.m.
The neat meeting of the EDAC is January 28, 2011 at 7:30 a.m.
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