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Farmers Market: 11 vendors on South side- new vendors are Rico's Hot Sauce and Country Bake Shop. Expecting NL Garden Study Club, Green Display as well. FM Committee is working hard to promote the market, and is having a Hats Off to the Market on September 20th with prizes for customers who wear goofy hats, and the vendors will be wearing goofy hats. 4. Committee Reports a. Organization - No report b. Designs — (cheri reported in Dustins absence) design renderings from Texas Main Street are currently being produced for the Paris Optical Building- Leslie Wolfenden, one of the Paris Main Street Architects will be submitting them soon and then the Design committee will set up a meeting with the building owner to get feed back. The design committee has also worked with local artist Suzanna Coyle and has come up with an awesome design for the use of the festival of pumpkins promotions this year. Bike racks are in, and Cheri appeared in front of HPC and got them approved. Looking at locations to place them. (subway, Jaxx, and PCT)- Matt Coyle added that the Design committee is also working on other signage for the festival. c. Promotions - Kari working with festival had spoke with Clint McMillian and was reporting that Choctaw Casino was giving away prizes for the Zombie Walk, and has 250 committed, as well as a goal of 1000 zombies. Good Job Clint on Prizes!!! d. Economic Restructure - Britin: building relationships with R3Bl and SBDC at PJC coming up with options for market stratagies for retention of business, noting with growth of downtown we might have turnover(which happens) but wanted to help give the businesses the tools needed for success. This can be done with partnerships and training that business owners might not know is available through the groups afore mentioned. Revitalization Related: Fire Posters with Smile( logo the whole town got behind after the 1916 fire) Britin and Marvin Gorley are working on this as a revitalization fundraiser for Main Street and will be sold at FoP. Britin brought some show and tell of other posters and looking into the possibility of using them for other fundraisers. Firemans Ball scheduled for March 2012- Lots of fun ideas for Fire Festival and how to make it a success, ER did not meet for August, too hot- and September was busy for everyone, so plans for the future meeting will focus on Building and Business inventory and business assistance. See Attached email. e. HPC report-Matt Certificates of Appropriateness -1 was signage for a Downtown Business, the other was the Bike Racks. f. PDA report Kari Daniel, PDA president • Magazine is almost complete- has been in discussions with interested business person potential childrens clothing store (bling style clothing for kids 8 -18) and also someone interested in potential of a Maternity store. • Sofa and Such moved out to the Lamar avenue location of the old blockbuster, and the building is for sale. $1500 per month, or rumors of $150K- • Paris Framing and Design Closed its doors, and Robin Weems- Itsy Bitsy Spider purchased the building and is going to open up soon. g. VCC /Chamber- Cheri filled in for Becky- $10,000 shop local campaign is going well, and they met and have momentum going. 35 businesses to date were signed up, inclement weather plan, and chamber bucks are going to be offered as an incentive. Buy $100 dollars for $80. And spend them as cash for face value. Savings 20 %. 47 business is the magic number to make that happen.