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Volunteer group Illuminate Isanti seeks city help with lights festival; offers donations and volunteer labor
Summary
A new volunteer group, Isanti Together (Illuminate Isanti), proposed a multi‑year community lights festival and requested city support for heavy lifts, storage, and limited public‑works assistance; the group reported $3,400 in promissory donations and estimated minimum annual operating costs of $20,000.
Carla Anderla, a founding member of the group Isanti Together, presented a proposal to hold an annual community lights festival called Illuminate Isanti and asked the city to partner on logistics and limited services.
Anderla said the group intends to become a 501(c)(3) and requested city assistance with tasks that require specialized equipment — for example, using the city’s boom/lift for placing lights on tall trees and the amphitheater roof, transport and storage of large display containers, and limited public‑works labor for setup and teardown. She said the volunteer group would take responsibility for…
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