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MAIN STREET ADVISORY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
8 A.M. – JANUARY 26, 2005
City Hall Main Floor Conference Room
Board Members: Bryant Boyd, chair; Bob Weimer, vice-chair; Nancy Rister, secretary;
Laura Eliel
Staff Present: Shelly Hargrove, Main Street Manager; Mark Thomas, E.D. Director
Also Present: Chris Damon, GX Creative; Sarah Jane Blankenship, Dianne Painter
Gordon Baker and Cindy Locke
1. Called to order at 8:40 a.m. by chair Bryant Boyd.
2. Bob Weimer moved that the minutes from December 9th be accepted. Nancy Rister
seconded. Motion carried.
3. Chris Damon of GX Creative presented the new Georgetown brand and the work that went
into creating it.
4. a. Design: Shelly created a checklist for the Façade Grant Application.
b. Organization: Possible new board members would be approved by the City Council by
the February meeting. March will be their first formal meeting. If they attend in February, it
will be a question/answer meeting for them.
c. Promotions: The lighting rebate proposal was not brought before council as the number
businesses went from 24 to 46 businesses which would have to split the $500 pot for rebates.
It didn’t seem worth it to ask the Council for this since it be only $10 each. Bob Weimer
moved that Bryant Boyd go before the City Council to increase the rebates for the 46
businesses to $1,000 and ask the Council to consider this in next years budget for the 2005
Christmas season. Laura seconded the motion. There was discussion about using the money
for an ad for downtown instead. Bob withdrew his motion. Laura made a motion to meet the
obligation already made in 2004 and look into an incentive item for 2005. Also included in
the motion that Shelly see if she could find $1,000 in the budget to use for this purpose since
it cannot come from the HOT funds. Bob Weimer seconded. Motion passed.
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d. Economic Restructuring: Work is being done on the former Williamson County
Academy. Monument Café will be moving to the old Draeger showroom.
5. Advisory Board Work Plan 2004-2005 was adopted by motion made by Bob Weimer,
seconded by Nancy Rister. Motion passes.
6. Staff Report: Mark Thomas the Economic Development Director gave an update on
what ED is doing and informed the board about their next meeting Feb. 17th at 6 at the
San Gabriel Room at the new Municipal Building off the Leander Road. They completed
a lease analysis of downtown and compared to other downtowns of our size. They’ve
also hired a telemarketer to find leads for downtown. These will be turned over to
property owners to follow up on.
Possible HOT funds use project is to print some new banners with the new brand on it
for the historic light poles.
7. New Business was to remind everyone of the ED meeting on Feb. 17th as mentioned above.
8. Items and objectives for the next meeting: List of approved members for the next meeting
and to have invited those newly approved members.
9. There should be a press release done regarding the new board members and outgoing
members.
10. We adjourned at 10 a.m.
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Nancy Rister, Board Secretary
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Bryant Boyd, Board Chair
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