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Present: <br />Glee Emmite <br />Shelley McDowell <br />April Coward <br />Cody Kelly <br />Laurie Redus <br />Frances Reed <br />Cheri Bedford, Main Street Manager <br />Meeting Minutes of the Main Street Advisory Board <br />AMENDED, <br />107 Kaufman St <br />Paris Texas <br />City Council Chambers <br />Tuesday. January 9. 2018 <br />Absent: <br />John Brazile <br />Becky Semple, Chamber Liaison <br />Cleonne Drake — City Council <br />Liaison <br />1) Call meeting to order- Glee Emmite at 4:33 pm <br />2) Citizens Forum- None <br />3) Approval of minutes of last meeting Shelley McDowell moved to approve the minutes, April Coward seconded, minutes were <br />approved. <br />4) BIG grant for Moffitt Financial: Don Moffitt was present to give details about his project on the fagade of 36 W. Plaza. They plan <br />to do a complete remodel on the fagade of the building based on a design rendering from the Texas Main Street program. Glee <br />Emmite asked about the upper floor windows. Don explained there is no second floor in the building so the plan is to put in a <br />blanker panel designed to look like historic windows. Mr. Moffitt answered other questions about the project that had to do with <br />the canopy, and side of the building. Cheri explained the Historic Preservation Commission has agreed to give a fagade grant for <br />the amount of $2,500. There is $12,000 dollars left in the fund for the BIG grant. A motion was made by Shelley McDowell to <br />grant $5000 to The Moffitt Financial Group for the remodel of their front fagade, Motion was seconded by April Coward. Motion <br />carried 6-0. <br />a) Cheri reported that 109 businesses are listed in the new Downtown brochure. She reminded us about the City Council <br />meeting on Jan. 22, where Cheri and Glee will give a report on MSAB and our work plan. As many of us as possible need to <br />be in attendance for support. <br />5 Committee, <br />Liaison„&lorts- <br />a) HPC — Glee reported next meeting will be January 10th.We want to get HPC involved in educating people who are interested <br />in investing in downtown as to the services we can make available — design, planning, etc. <br />b) PDA — Glee reported on the latest Breakfast Chat MSAB held with merchants, where we showed a Roger Brooks video, and <br />City .Engineer Carla Easton gave a report on the new sewer lines that are being installed on Main St. heading south. PDA <br />next meeting is Jan. 100' where they'll talk about the pros and cons of the Antique Fair. Robin Weems is in charge, and the <br />Gibraltar ownership wants the Hotel to be the venue, concern is that the cost of that will be prohibitive. <br />c) Chamber of Commerce and V&CC — Becky Semple was not present. <br />d) Economic Vitality — Cody met with Cheri in December to discuss setting up a committee, and to look at setting up a website <br />for available properties for business and residential. He plans to develop a survey and a spreadsheet with available properties. <br />e) Organization - Laurie recapped the November meeting with the Market Square vendors <br />6) Future Agenda Items- None. <br />7) Motion to adjourn - by Cody, with second from Laurie. Meeting adjourned at 5:03 pm <br />Approved this YJ day of „ ,r t s� 2019. <br />Cid” <br />rug . <br />Glee Emmite, Board Chair <br />