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MAIN STREET ADVISORY BOARD MEETING MINUTES
8:00 A. M. – OCTOBER 18, 2006
WILLIAMSON COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Board Members Present: Gordon Baker, chair; Dana Wood, Beverly Adam, Kirk
Kriegel, Terri Brisse and Larry McCormick, secretary
Board Members Absent: Cindy Locke, vice‐chair; Laura Eliel (resigned), Sarah
Jane Blankenship (resigned)
City Staff Present: Shelly Hargrove, Tourism Director and Main Street
Manager
Others Present: Franklin Pulliam, West Short
1. Called to order at 8:04 a.m. by Chair Gordon Baker
2. Motion to approve the minutes of the September 13th meeting of the Main
Street Advisory Board was made by Beverly Adam, seconded by Dana Wood,
and approved by all present.
3. Staff Report: Shelly Hargrove reported that the CVB placed their first ad in D
Travel magazine and indicated that other ads would follow focusing on the
Dallas market. Georgetown was spotlighted in the Texas Main Street
newsletter in November. Georgetown photo is also featured on the cover of
the Texas Brazos Trail Christmas events rack card with reference to the
Heritage Holiday Home Tour. The Georgetown Heritage Society, Palace
Theatre, City and DGA have collaborated to produce a Georgetown holiday
rack card, poster and website that will be ready soon. The CVB and Palace
Theatre will do a full‐page ad in the Arts & Culture section of the December
2006 issue of Texas Monthly. Additional half‐page ads in February, March,
April, June and September issues.
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$2.4 million has been allocated to downtown master plan implementation for
2006/07 fiscal year. $6 million allocated to date for implementation of
downtown master plan. Monument Café demolition work has commenced.
New landscape plan for crepe myrtles on square continues to evolve. A date
of Wednesday, December 13th at 4:00 p.m. at the new library was suggested
for the December/holiday meeting.
4. Gordon Baker abstained from the meeting during the consideration of façade
grant applications due to potential conflict of interest. Larry McCormick
chaired the meeting in his absence since Vice‐Chair Cindy Locke was not
present.
Franklin Pulliam presented his application to obtain grant support to defray
part of the cost of door and under‐awning signage on his new business
establishment at 109 W. 7th St., Ste. 100. A brief discussion followed his
presentation. Beverly Adams moved that he be granted $500 for the purpose
described. Kirk Kriegel seconded the motion, and it was approved by all
present.
West Short presented his application to obtain grant support to defray part of
the cost of foundation repairs and signage for property located at 313 10th
Street. Following discussion and questions, Terri Brisse moved that a total
$9429 ($500 for signage and $8929 for foundation repair) be granted the
applicant for the purposes described in the application. Beverly Adam
seconded the motion, and it was approved by all present.
5. a. Design: Gordon Baker returned to chair the meeting and reported on
recent events concerning the effort to modify (or eliminate) HARC. He
suggested that it might be helpful if members conveyed their personal
thoughts on the matter to City leaders.
Mention was made that the Main Street Advisory Board might wish to
discuss terms of office of board members at a later meeting.
Beverly Adam suggested that some consideration needs to be given to the
posting of informational signs in business storefronts. Discussion of this topic
was deferred to a later meeting.
b. Promotion: Shelly Hargrove pointed to the need for a date to discuss Red
Poppy Festival sponsorship issues. She added that we are trying to get as
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many participants as possible to grow poppies this year and everyone could
pick up “good seeds” at the CVB.
Gordon Baker reported that that the Chisholm Trail event has been accepted
by the city council as an annual City‐sponsored event.
c. Economic Restructuring: Larry McCormick reported that HCAS funding
was complete and that plans for the meetings on January 24‐25 were moving
ahead smoothly. In addition, he indicated that in a meeting with one of the
TIF Board members (Bryant Boyd) there seemed to be a willingness to direct
at least a portion of the TIF revenue stream toward “feet on the street
projects”. The issue of direct input of the Main Street Advisory Board to the
TIF Board was not addressed.
d. Organization: Dana Wood reported that the Business Owner Breakfast
meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, October 25th at 8:00 am in the
Williamson County Historical Museum. The agenda was discussed and
mention was made concerning whether all invitations had gone out to
possible participants.
The university student business incubator project was discussed. Texas State
has expressed interest in the project and Kirk Kriegel indicated that the
business group at Southwestern University also seems to be quite interested.
A tentative date for the Annual Board Retreat was set for Wednesday,
January 31.
The Georgetown Main Street Program will have its 25th anniversary in 2007.
Thought will be given as to how to celebrate this milestone in May.
6. Motion to adjourn by Wood, seconded by Brisse. Meeting adjourned at 9:40
a.m.
Approved and attested to by:
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Gordon Baker, Board Chair Date
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Larry McCormick, Board Secretary Date