12/12/2017 MinutesMeeting Minutes of the Main Street Advisory Board
107 Kaufman St
Paris Texas
City Council Chambers
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Present: Absent:
Glee Emmite April Coward
John Brazile Cody Kelly
Laurie Redus
Frances Reed
Shelley McDowell
Becky Semple, Chamber Liaison
Cheri Bedford, Main Street Manager
Cleorme Drake -- City Council Liaison
l) Call meeting to order- Glee Emmite at 4:33 pm
2) Citizens Forum- None
3) Approval of minutes of last meeting John Brazile moved to approve the minutes, Shelley McDowell seconded, minutes were
approved
4) Main Street dates -
a) Cheri reported a lot of great events with the PDA parade, Small Business Saturday, and the H -25 Farnier's, Market were all
very successful, Also Festival of Pumpkins with 160+ volunteers, and the Tree Lighting were extremely well -attended.
b) We have a new Survey Monkey account. Cheri asked for possible questions for a downtown merchant's survey. Glee asked
to add a question about the speed limit downtown - is it too high? Does it bother the merchants?
c) Next up is the Paris Wine Fest
d) Cheri invited everyone to watch the Destination Downtown videos.
e) We will present to the City Council in January about our scope of work,, plans we have, what we have accomplished,
f)Do we want to start a monthly meeting with the downtown merchants, so we can all get to know each other, see how INC can
help them?
g) Promotions Committee will meet later today. Jill Drake will have feedback from Mannequin Night.
5) Committee _LIA!�sonRe Reports_
a) HPC -- Glee went to downtown McKinney for a HPC meeting. Very impressed with their downtown area. Suggested having
signs made for our empty storefronts with the history of the building to try to pique interest in development. Cover the glass
with dropcloth drapes. LO Hammons building (Linda Kilgore owns) and space next to Olive Paris (G.A. Hodges owns) are
possibilities. There is a Wine Lounge going in on I" SF. They will meet with FIPC to get a Certificate of Appropriateness for
a gate they put up before knowing they needed one,
b,) PDA — "Breakfast Bites" meetings with merchants, short videos shown, Moffitt Financial on the southwest comer of the
Plaza wants to make improvements to the faqade. Looking for HPC grant and a BIG grant from us.
c) Promotions — John reports they will meet 12-12-17
d) Economic Vitality — Cody not present
e) Organization — Laurie reported they met 11-2-17 to discuss the potential for Market Square. Toured with regular vendors to
get ideas. Will meet in January to discuss improvement plan and timeline. Cheri has requested from the state Main St. an
artist's rendering for Market Square and Skate Park-, Cheri showed some possibilities for Market Square and the Library
Plaza across the street. She will meet with mural artists for potential work there.
f) V&CC -- Becky talked about the Drawing. There's a potential mountain bike race for Pat Mayse Lake in the works. The Half
de Paris will be on March 3d, 1000+ signed up so far. We discussed asking about possibly changing the 5K route to go
through a more scenic part of town. Tour de Paris is on track. Potential for new events at Lake Crook.
6,) Future Agenda Items- Sign thank you cards for volunteers. Survey Monkey. Prepare for Council presentation - stress 2500++
volunteer hours in 2017.
7) Motion to adjourn - by Laurie, with second from Shelley. Meeting adjourned at 5:09 pm
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Approved this p day d" 2018
Glee Fay mite, Beard Chair