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ELECTION OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Board Chair — Matt Coyle nominated by Wyatt the nominations passed unanimously Vice Chair — James Brockway nominated by Wyatt passed unanimously Secretary - Ashlea Mattoon nominated by Kari Daniel passed unanimously REVIEW MAIN STREET COMMITTEE RESPOBILIT / NOMINATE COMMITTEE CHAIRS Promotions — Kari Daniel stay Design — Matt Coyle stay Economic Restructuring — Kari nominated Britin Bostick passed unanimously Organization — Kari Daniel nominated Ashlea Mattoon for chair passed unanimously COMMITTEE REPORTS ORGANIZATION — No Report-No chairman. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURE- No Report- No chairman DESIGN — Handout attached from meeting last week. Decided to remove planters that were added in the 1980's some were broken and falling off. Corners where trees were removed — decomposed granite with smaller plants that will not distract from the actual Fountain. Edwin Pickle suggested talking to Keep Paris Beautiful for monies. James Brockway suggested Texas wildflower. Also researching bike racks for the square. Future Goals — re -sod the entire Fountain area. August I" volunteers going to be at the Market to help clean up the grass area at 6 in the evening if anyone is interested in helping. Paul suggested a letter be written to the Founders Lions Club Paris asking for donations for the bike racks. Ashlea suggested finding someone local to make the bike racks and put their name on it. PROMOTIONS - Movies in the Park has been Very successful so far this year! Record attendance each night with Jurassic Park coming in as the largest crowd so far with over 350 in attendance! Planning will start earlier for next year. Meeting will be scheduled after the full season is over for sometime in August. Shop local — McAllister Christmas giveaway gives away $10,000 in cash at Christmas in a town of 12,000 people. This will promote shopping local for Christmas. A business will buy into the program and get a roll of tickets and each time the customer comes into the store and get at ticket for each $10 that spend. Great campaign to promote people in Paris to shop in Paris and get out of town shoppers to come shop in Paris to get these tickets and have a chance to win the prize money. Tuesday before Christmas is the best to do the drawing. Events are going on and other prizes are given out to keep people downtown for about 2 hours or so. CPA firm keeps up with the numbers and it will be announced that the ticket was bought at ........ and you have 5 minutes to get to the square. They have to be locally owned businesses. For example McDonald's could participate because it is a locally owned franchise. McAllister sold 800,000 tickets last year. Mindy & Cheri have already agreed to send out a letter to merchants.