01/09/2018 Amended AgendaPresent:
Glee Emmite
Shelley McDowell
April Coward
Cody Kelly
Laurie Redus
Frances Reed
Cheri Bedford, Main Street Manager
Meeting Minutes of the Main Street Advisory Board
AMENDED
107 Kaufman St
Paris Texas
City Council Chambers
Tuesday. January 9. 2018
Absent:
John Brazile
Becky Semple, Chamber Liaison
Cleonne Drake — City Council
Liaison
1) Call meeting to order- Glee Emmite at 4:33 pm
2) Citizens Forum- None
3) Approval of minutes of last meeting Shelley McDowell moved to approve the minutes, April Coward seconded, minutes were
approved.
4) BIG grant for Moffitt Financial: Don Moffitt was present to give details about his project on the facade of 36 W. Plaza. They plan
to do a complete remodel on the facade of the building based on a design rendering from the Texas Main Street program. Glee
Emmite asked about the upper floor windows. Don explained there is no second floor in the building so the plan is to put in a
blanker panel designed to look like historic windows. Mr. Moffitt answered other questions about the project that had to do with
the canopy, and side of the building. Cheri explained the Historic Preservation Commission has agreed to give a facade grant for
the amount of $2,500. There is $12,000 dollars left in the fund for the BIG grant. A motion was made by Shelley McDowell to
grant $5000 to The Moffitt Financial Group for the remodel of their front facade, Motion was seconded by April Coward. Motion
carried 6-0.
a) Cheri reported that 109 businesses are listed in the new Downtown brochure. She reminded us about the City Council
meeting on Jan. 22, where Cheri and Glee will give a report on MSAB and our work plan. As many of us as possible need to
be in attendance for support.
5) Committee Liaison Re
a) HPC — Glee reported next meeting will be January 10th.We want to get HPC involved in educating people who are interested
in investing in downtown as to the services we can make available — design, planning, etc.
b) PDA — Glee reported on the latest Breakfast Chat MSAB held with merchants, where we showed a Roger Brooks video, and
City .Engineer Carla Easton gave a report on the new sewer lines that are being installed on Main St. heading south. PDA
next meeting is Jan. 10th where they'll talk about the pros and cons of the Antique Fair. Robin Weems is in charge, and the
Gibraltar ownership wants the Hotel to be the venue, concern is that the cost of that will be prohibitive.
c) Chamber of Commerce and V&CC — Becky Semple was not present.
d) Economic Vitality — Cody met with Cheri in December to discuss setting up a committee, and to look at setting up a website
for available properties for business and residential. He plans to develop a survey and a spreadsheet with available properties.
e) Organization - Laurie recapped the November meeting with the Market Square vendors
6) Future Agenda Items- None.
7) Motion to adjourn - by Cody, with second from Laurie. Meeting adjourned at 5:03 pm
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Glee Emmite, Board Chair