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Minutes Main Street Advisory Board A meeting of the Paris Main Street Advisory Board, held on January 5, 2000, at 3:00 p.m. at the Moore Law Firm. Present: Dr. William Hayden Karen Wilkerson Michael Malone Richard Manning Larry Schenk Absent: Ann Wyche Linda Suarez Scott McDowell Garvey House Terry Townsend Dwight Chaney Suzy Harper Charlie Neeley Bill Payne Pat Taylor The meeting was called to order by Terry Townsend. Terry Townsend made an update concerning the grant funding received from the Texas Department of Transportation and the Downtown Improvement Project. The project has a total value of $1,007,400.00; federal funds are $805,920.00 and the local match funded by the City of Paris is $201,480.00. The official announcement for this project will come from TXDot on January 27, 2000. Larry Schenk, City Attorney stated the board should create goals and objectives for adopting Historical ordinances. Establish reasons for needing these ordinances. Put yourself in the shoes of the council and residents. How will this effect the larger majority? Has the board established a list of properties and property owners? Larry stated in his opinion, once this list is established the board should pursue public forums; and that the Main Street Advisory Board should have authority to call those forums when they believe its necessary. Mike Malone points out that the Main Street Program is centered around an educational process, providing low interest loan programs and creating a community effort to improve the district. Staff may organize meetings. But board members should come forward with comments about construction downtown. Each one of our building have been modified; some have used complementary material and some have not. We should educate them on what they should be doing. Larry Schenk, suggested that the public forums begin with one big meeting and then several smaller ones to follow which included the entire district. Scott McDowell, disagreed with Larry, saying we should concentrate on the immediate downtown area first with public forums and then move to the outlying areas. Pointing out that any more may be to much to handle in the beginning. Dr. Hayden made a formal motion that we pursue public forums in the downtown first, Dwight Chaney seconded the motion. The board unanimously approved this motion. The m Wined p.m. erry ownsend Main Street Manager