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Restoration Renovation. The Board will pay for their application. The businesses have to write their own narrative/story. It is reviewed by a panel from across the state and then the public will vote. Salsa on the Square coming end of September. Several businesses have sponsored the event. Tamales- $750.00, $1,000.00 from Richard Drake, Paris Regional $500.00, 24/7 Mesa $500.00, CUTX- expecting $1500.00. We will be getting around 4,000 total. Downtown Guide- Glee and Cheri have been working to update this guide together. It is with the design person right now. Downtown trash cans some were replaced with a smaller trash can. It can go up against the building better. It narrows down the look of all of the trash cans downtown. There is going to be a newsletter each month for vendors and shared at the Paris Downtown Association meetings each month. PDA meetings should be attended by one of our board members. Glee mentioned signage at Tacos Q. Those signs were from a product of the Texas Design Services. Festival of Pumpkins sponsor forms are completed.Megan Glascock, Kim Kalina, Mary Hart and Cheri Bedford met to gain insight and ideas for the 25th anniversary of the Festival. Megan wants to be involved and loves anything downtown. She met with others that had ideas and shared with us to make our festival as phenomenal as possible. The festival is done in downtown for a reason, to benefit our downtown. There are more sponsorship opportunities. We do have some obligations to pay for such as police services, advertising, and porta-potties. But we can give some people opportunities that are different than last year. Please spread the word and talk to others about sponsorship. 5. Future Agenda Items- Kevin Moore, president, asked that we take a moment to review our Toole plan, Annex A and B, and the city strategies, to become more knowledgeable about what it says relating to parking and traffic so that we can discuss and come up with recommendations, if any. Part of our role as members of the MSAB, per Kevin Moore, is to be the "subject matter" experts who advise the city council. How do we get the "subject matter" experts on our board, and keep them there, from these other organizations? How we can align together and work without competing our efforts? Kevin also asked that once the First Street Project is complete on Dec. 31, that we are ready to recommend, what, from the Toole plan, would be our next project. Kevin finally suggests that we review adding outside ex -officio members to include other organizations that would directly tie to our Toole plan. Adjournment. There being no further business, A Motion to adjourn was made by Board Member Mary Hart and seconded by Board Member Melissa Jones. Motion carried, 8 ayes - 0 nays. Kevin Moore, president, adjourned the meeting at 5:27 p.m. Chairman