11/20/2012 MINUTESMINUTES OF THE REGULAR
MEETING OF THE
MAIN STREET ADVISORY BOARD
November 20, 2012
City Hall Council Chambers
107 E. Kaufman
4:15 p.m.
Members Present:
Absent
Matt Coyle, Chairman
Britin Bostick
Ashlea Mattoon
Casey Ressler
Karie Raulston
Cleonne Drake
Jill Drake
Fred Green
Cheri Bedford
Call to order at 4:08
Approval of minutes. Motion by Jill Drake second Fred Green Motion Carried 5 -0
Managers' report
Update: received design rendering for Paris Community Theater Brown Creative Art Center. That
Guys coffee also received a design rendering and is considering changes based on the
recommendation.
Festival of pumpkins was very successful. 8000 and 10,000 estimated turn out.
Handed out applications to vendors for next year. The concert had good reviews, but not the
anticipated attendance. Grand theater tours were also successful. Pumpkin patch was a great
fundraiser. Sold $6500 worth of pumpkins, received 25% of sells with $400 in donations. Over 40
individuals and groups volunteered to run the patch.
Downtown Trick or Treating successful, hundreds of people come downtown for this.
Christmas tree lighting was successful. There was Santa, Reindeer, Carolers in vintage costumes.
Estimated 500 attendees
Community effort for the downtown tree: Keep Paris beautiful donated $1000, Art Alliance $750,
Turner Pipe, Parks and Recreation, and Main Street, Traffic and Sanitation
Dog dash - fundraiser for Lamar County Humane Associate and Salvation Army. It is at 10:00 a.m.
December 8th.
Followed by the wassail fest. Competition among the downtown businesses to taste test the wassail.
Best wassail will receive a reward. Drawing for participants. Carriage rides, music, vintage carolers.
Committee reports:
Organization: No report
Design: how to incorporate Eiffel tower downtown and is that feasible. Branding with Eiffle tower?
Looking for ideas, Add a map /kiosk at the tower with downtown destinadon.ie viewing different
points of interest.
Promotions: No report
Economic Restructuring:
Defer discussion to Item 7
HPC -no report
Chamber /VCC- Holiday in Paris November 30. Parade, play, carriage rides, home tour, dog dash,
wassail fest, art walk, home tours. Shop local has begun. There have been 13 new chamber members
due to the shop local.
6. Matt Requested review of Main Street with working update. Which responsible party and activity
goals are most timely and what the progress is on the different objectives. Mission statement
suggestions and changes will be voted on at our next meeting.
Tours of Grand Theatre have been very successful. People have had a positive response. Cheri
updated on the theater: The roof will be fixed. Paul Denny is developing a structural plan to
reinforce the wall between theaters and L.O. Hammons property. Cheri is receiving her letter of
support for the Brownfield grant. Request for Matt Coyle and Jill Drake to write a letter.
Keep restroom as future agenda item, as well as removal of skate park. Cheri will discuss with parks
department the plan for the skate park
7. Fred has emailed and placed a hard copy of the grant program for everyone to review. Fred called
for a vote from the board to approve and send to the attorney. Fred would like to send this to the
Meadows Foundation and we will need the exact number of the funds to do this. Fred and Cheri
want to discuss with City Manager about funds
How to announce? Press release and announcement.
Fred is looking and walking the historic district to find tenants and owners. This has been on our
work plan
PDA $9000 match mostly came from the Bernie premiere. Fred would like to honor the pain family
for their contribution with either a byline or name the grant after the pain family. Discussion was
held as to how we would like to do that. Cheri discussed the PDA recommendation to call it the
Judd Paine Grant. Group consensus was to give Judd Payne the byline for the 2013 BIG grant.
ER will be working to prioritize the objectives. Matt stressed that there needs to be a timeline for all
committees.
How can we apply for a USDA revolving loan fund, or RBEG grant? Cheri recommends consulting
with Kim Lacey who writes grants for the city of Paris.
8. Future agenda items:
Update from Fred Green
Update on restroom, Skate Park
Report on parks master plan
Timeline for agenda goals
Motion to adjourn Fred Green seconded by Karie Raulston, Motion Carried 5 -0
Minutes prepared by Ashlea Mattoon
APPROVED THIS 15 DAY OF JANUARY, 2013.
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Matt Coyle, Chairman
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