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04-C Main St. Adv. Bd. Min 3-15-06 MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE MAIN STREET ADVISORY BOARD March 15, 2006 Aikin Building 23 East Plaza 3:00 p.m. A meeting of the members of the Paris Main Street Advisory Board was held Wed. March 15, 2006 at 3:00 p.m., at the Aikin Building. Beth Golden, Main Street Coordinator, presided. PRESENT: Barbara Wilson Pike Burkhart (Alt.) Suzy Harper Renee Harvey (Alt.) Walt Brown David House ABSENT: Bailey Cant (Alt.) Drew Crawford (Alt.) Becky Semple (Ex-Officio) Jennifer Long Zach Saffle Beth Golden called the meeting to order at 3:20 p.m. Downtown Real Estate Presentation by Renee Harvey and Karen Wilkerson Renee and Karen made a great presentation to market downtown properties. Karen volunteered to put the first 6 properties on the display board for Main Street. Casey Rose donated a large magnetic framed board to be used in the window and Walt Brown volunteered to suspend it from the ceiling. Karen and Renee both recommended Main Street develop an application and hold harmless forms to be completed when a "for sale by owner" approaches Main Street for placement of their property on the display board. They offered their forms to us to use as a guide for developing ours. They also volunteered to put any properties we obtained from the public in their format to be used on the display. The Main Street group suggested charging a fee for potential applicants who wish to place their property on the board. Several details need to be explored further within the economic restructuring committee before this project is started. Main Street Coordinator will follow up with Renee and Karen. Festival of Pumpkins Planning Committee Suzy Harper and Walt Brown volunteered to assist in planning the festival. Alternate Positions The advisory board members agreed the current system serves our needs appropriately. Appointments of Advisory Board Members The following names were presented to the board: Casey Rose, Bret Ruthart, Matthew Coyle, Karol Lyn Moore and Lisa House. Walt made a motion that we ask these members to join the Main Street Advisory Board and Barbara Wilson seconded. The following terms expire at the end of this month: Page 1 of2 r" Suzy Harper, Barbara Wilson, David House and Renee Harvey. Barbara Wilson will be re-appointed and Suzy, David and Renee wish to continue tQ support and serve the Main Street Advisory Board through committees or other volunteer capacities. Committee Reports >> Organization Committee - A meeting was not held therefore a report as not provided. >> Promotions Committee - A meeting was held March J1lh at the Paris Bakery. Gina Crawford, Matt Coyle, Lydia Lindsey and Jennifer Long attended. We began our meeting discussing various websites we liked. Everyone agreed that Georgetown Texas has a great Main Street website. We thought the photo on the homepage was attractive and made one want to visit their community. Matt Coyle has agreed to begin taking photos of the plaza so that we might incorporate a similar photo for the Paris Main Street homepage. We also liked the navigation of their site as well. Pages we would like include: business directory, available properties, events calendar and brief history of the plaza w/photos. Lydia suggested a keyword search box. Jennifer suggested links to lodging facilities as well as information regarding the Trail de Paris. Beth suggested using bright color as background vs. white. We all agreed that pertinent information is key and no clutter on the site. Overload of information is often distracting to searchers. Beth Golden added that a fund raising effort is planned for April 1 sl at the airport to raise money for the website. Main Street raised $500.00 from drink sales at the courthouse re-dedication. Logo -A suggestion was made to have a community contest for the logo design so that we might involve art students? We are interested in what Main Street advisory board members think about the idea. The promotions committee is charged with development of the website - final layout will be presented to the full advisory board for approval upon completion. If you have any ideas or thoughts you would like to share with our group please feel free to give any of the members of this committee a call. >> Design Committee - A meeting was held March 61h with TxDOT officials, Chamber of Commerce representatives, Main Street Design Committee members and City officials to discuss gateway signs and way-finding signs. Local landmarks have been identified and sites chosen for gateway signs. Barbara reported that the group has really been split in two pieces so that we can expedite the process. The group continues to meet with success. >> Economic Restructuring Committee - A meeting was not held therefore a report was not provided. Request for items for next month's agenda: Main Street Budget. A motion was made by Walt Brown to adjourn and seconded by Barbara Wilson. The meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m. Approved this 19th day of April 2006. Zach Saffle, Chairman Signature Page 2 of2 r"