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2025-09-17
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The Veterans Memorial Renovation Committee agenda covered introductions, contact follow-up, a design presentation, next steps, Heritage Festival booth staffing, and future meetings; no minutes or transcript were included to show outcomes.
7 items as recorded in the packet and minutes.
1Guest Introductions
Guest introductions were scheduled as the first item.
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2Follow up on contacts with businesses and/or other agencies
The committee was scheduled to follow up on contacts with businesses and other agencies.
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3Design Presentation - Julia and Renee
A design presentation by Julia and Renee was scheduled.
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4Next Steps
The committee was scheduled to discuss next steps.
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5Heritage Festival Booth Staffing
The committee was scheduled to discuss booth staffing for the Heritage Festival.
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6Adjourn
Adjournment was scheduled.
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Next meetingsNext meetings
The agenda listed the next meetings as September 30, October 7, and October 21.
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What this meeting did about specific topics, organized by issue rather than by document.
Veterans Memorial business, vendor, and volunteer contacts
The committee had a scheduled follow-up on contacts with businesses and other agencies. Jim Rootes' submitted material documented ideas involving Furniture & Things for discounted memorial benches and University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardeners for native flower gardens, including a stated $0.00 cost to the city for the gardens.
Agenda: 2. Speakers: Jim Rootes.
Veterans Memorial design presentation
The agenda scheduled a design presentation by Julia and Renee. The packet included a Nowthen Memorial Committee presentation showing memorial concepts such as limestone, service-branch elements, flags, QR stands, future sidewalk areas, and concrete-area layouts, but the bundle does not include minutes showing what the committee decided.
Agenda: 3. Speakers: Julia, Renee.
Veterans Memorial next steps and future meetings
The committee was scheduled to discuss next steps, and the agenda listed future meetings for September 30, October 7, and October 21. Without minutes, the bundle does not show what next steps were assigned.
Agenda: 4, Next meetings.
Heritage Festival booth staffing
The committee was scheduled to discuss staffing for a Heritage Festival booth. No minutes were included, so the bundle does not show who agreed to staff the booth or what schedule was set.
Agenda: 5.
Possible Veterans Memorial location and setting
Jim Rootes submitted thoughts about the memorial's purpose and suggested a reverent setting, including an idea to place it at Nowthen East Twin Lake Park near the Bald Eagle Shelter rather than near the current county-road location. The agenda also scheduled contacts follow-up and a design presentation, but no minutes were available to show whether the committee acted on a location.
Agenda: 2, 3. Speakers: Jim Rootes.
Each figure links back to the document it came from. When the council voted on the amount, the motion is shown.
Cost to city for native flower gardens
Jim Rootes wrote that native flower gardens could be created using Master Gardeners and that the cost to the city would be $0.00.
estimate · Native flower gardens
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Council approval status: not yet on record.
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