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Meeting Minutes of the Main Street Advisory Board <br />107 Kaufman St <br />Paris Texas <br />City Council Chambers <br />Tuesday, November 18, 2014 <br />Present: <br />Jerry Coyle <br />Jill Drake <br />Glee Eminite <br />Katie Raulston <br />Missy Starnes <br />Nancy Waldrum <br />Cheri Bedford, Main Street <br />Manager <br />Becky Semple, Chamber Liaison <br />Benny Plata, City Council <br />Absent: <br />Beatrice Ardila <br />Visitor: Lauren Corbell- -Paris <br />News <br />1. Call meeting to order Jill Drake at 4:20pm <br />2. Role taken by Cheri Bedford. Quorum established. <br />3. Citizens Forum: none noted. <br />4. Approval of minutes of October 14, 2014. Motion was made by Nancy Waldrum seconded by <br />Missy Starnes motion carried. <br />5. Coordinator report: Cheri Bedford: <br />a. Christmas Tree Lighting was November 7, 2014. There are many activities planned for the <br />season. Please check HolidayInParisTexas.com for details. Trees in plaza are amazing thanks <br />to city crew who worked extra -long to accomplish this. <br />b. Texas Downtown Association: Grant was awarded to Paris on Nov 6th at their Annual <br />Meeting Amount was $5000. This will go to the restroom project. <br />c. PDA- Antique Fair update. Meeting was at Spangler's new location Nov 12, 2014. Antique <br />Fair profits were $8,000 to go to restroom project. <br />d. Katie Raulston to step down as Promotions but to remain on board. Met Monday night <br />about plans for Santa Paws. <br />e. Sidewalk project to begin soon <br />f. Strategic planning date -be thinking about a date and time in Jan. 2015 to seat down and map <br />our plans and goals. <br />g. Restroom fundraising effort - Churches plans for a park were approved and submitted to <br />HPC. To date the fund has $33000.00 <br />h. Small Business Saturday - joined the neighborhood as a champion -to promote for the <br />Saturday after Thanksgiving details to follow watch your emails. IPad to be given away -Entry <br />forms will be available for participating businesses. <br />6. Committee Reports: <br />a. Organization Jill Drake- met for November 5 -goal to promote volunteerism and recognize <br />the volunteers by writing thank you to those who helped make Pumpkin Fest a success. <br />b. Design: Nancy Waldrum -- working on a t -shirt design for volunteers. <br />