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Followed b}� the �vassail fest. Competition among the downtown businesses to taste test the wassail. <br />Best wassail will receive a reward. Drawing for participants. Carriage rides, music, vintage carolers. <br />Committee reports: <br />Organization: No report <br />Design: how to incorporate Eiffel tower downtown and is that feasible. Branding with Eiffle tower? <br />Looking for ideas, Add a map/kiosk at the tower with downtown destination.ie viewing different <br />points of interest. <br />Promotions: No report <br />Economic Resuucturing: <br />Defer discussion to Item 7 <br />HPC-no report <br />Chamber/VCC- Holiday in Paris November 30. Parade, play, carriage rides, home tour, dog dash, <br />wassail fest, art walk, home tours. Shop local has begun. There have been 13 new chamber members <br />due to the shop local. <br />6. Matt Requested review of Main Street with working update. Which responsible parry and activit�� <br />goals are most timely and what the progress is on the different objectives. Mission statement <br />suggestions and changes will be voted on at our next meeting. <br />Tours of Grand Theatre have been very successful. People have had a positive response. Cheri <br />updated on the theater: The roof will be f�ed. Paul Denny is developing a structural plan to <br />reinforce the wall between theaters and L.O. Hammons property. Cheri is receiving her letter of <br />support for the Brownfield grant. Request for Matt Coyle and Jill Drake to write a letter. <br />Keep restroom as future agenda item, as well as removal of skate park. Cheri will discuss with parks <br />department the plan for the skate park <br />7. Fred has emailed and placed a hard copy of the grant program for ever5�one to review. Fred called <br />for a vote from the board to approve and send to the attorney. Fred would like to send this to the <br />Meadows Foundation and we will need the exact number of the funds to do this. Fred and Cheri <br />��ant to discuss with Cit�� Manager about funds <br />How to announce? Press release and announcement. <br />Fred is looking and walking the historic district to fmd tenants and owners. This has been on our <br />work plan <br />PDA �9000 match mostl�� came from the Bernie premiere. Fred would like to honor the pain family <br />for their contribution with either a byline or name the grant after the pain family. Discussion was <br />held as to how we would like to do that. Cheri discussed the PDA recommendation to call it the <br />Judd Paine Grant. Group consensus was to give Judd Payne the byline for the 2013 BIG grant. <br />