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MAIN STREET ADVISORY BOARD MTG. MINUTES
8:30 A.M. — FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011
WILLIAMSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE
2N° FLOOR NORTH CONFERENCE ROAM, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS
Board Members Present:
Guests Present:
City Staff Present:
Laura Coburn, Denise Jimenez, Marcy Urban,
Linda McCalla, Ki Browning, Karin Truxillo
Amanda Parr - Southwestern Univ., Jimmy
Hendrix and Dan Marek - DGA
Lori Lankford, Accounting Controller; Shelly
Hargrove, Main Street Manager; Robbie Wyler -
Historic District Planner; Tina Dunbar - ED
Admin Analyst and Mark Thomas - ED Director
1. The meeting was called to order at 8:45 a.m. by Board Chair Denise Jimenez.
2. Ki moved to correct the July minutes on agenda item #3 on Facade & Sign
Grant applications to reflect that she voted in favor of the facade and sign
grants for 717 S. Main St., Hill Country Bookstore, Karin seconded.
Discussion of voting on the wording of the minutes not the actual subject
matter listed in the minutes. All board members approved.
Ki moved to add to agenda item #7, that Focus magazine did not acknowledge
photo contest sponsors, Karin seconded. All board members approved.
3. Robbie gave an update for HARC. He reviewed the six downtown projects
approved from the July 28th HARC meeting including Hill Country
Bookstore's replacement of their blue fabric awning and the demolition of 614
S. Main St building for Grape Creek Vineyard. Mark Thomas gave a brief
update on the contract negotiations with Grape Creek as well as the
Georgetown Winery Initiative. Robbie mentioned that the new Monument
restaurant at River Place is moving ahead and wants to tie to the park's trail
system. Amanda Parr mentioned Rusty said he hopes to open by March 1.
4. Accounting Controller Lorie Lankford presented information on government
accounting and how it can be complicated and is different from private
banking. She also reviewed the Main Street Facade Fund account which is
made up of three revenue accounts that are used for the Georgetown Swirl,
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the ornament fundraiser for holiday lighting and decoration, and the fa+ade
and sign grant program. The 2011 shows a profit of $9588.56. Lorie and
Lindsay Daniell will start attending Swirl meeting and other annual city
fundraisers to help with accounting.
5. Denise moved to nominate Linda McCalla as new board vice chair, Laura
seconded. All board members approved.
6. Staff Report: Shelly passed out copies of the board's printed 2011-12 Strategic
Action Plan from LCRA and mentioned that all future committee meetings
need to include the individual committee action items on their agendas so that
committee progress can be reported at the monthly board meetings. She
reviewed the July 22 Citizen Forum meeting that was held to get feedback on
IF Marketing's Downtown Market Study in regards to three main questions:
what is Georgetown's core tourism ID, how do we use our current tourism
assets/attractions and what key themes tie the events/attractions all together?
Shelly mentioned the eight page Monument Cafe article in the National
Trust's Main Street Program May/June journal "Main Street Now". Shelly
passed out and reviewed a memo addressing the questions that Board
Member Ki Browning had emailed in regards to the Swirl, Facade Fund,
future fundraising and fiduciary responsibility of the board, and city board
policies and procedures.
7. Committee Reports:
a. Economic Restructuring: Marcy corrected the date of the next Breakfast
Bites to August 18 where Kirk Kriegel will discuss the book "Creating
Raving Fans".
➢ Joint Arts & Culture: Marcy reported on the Clifton, Texas arts trip
had 11 people from the Arts & Culture Board, CVB Board and Main
St. attended. She was very impressed with what they accomplished
for their size with 20 artists in residence and the Bosque Arts Center
in the old Clifton College historic building with a newer addition to
it. Karin mentioned the arts and culture presentations given at the
last city council meeting.
b. Promotion: Denise reported that the committee will meet soon. The
Garden Path Florist sign grant check presentation has been rescheduled to
12:15 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, and Ken'z Guitars and All Things Kids
will be scheduled soon. Shelly passed out Pink Heals postcards for board
members to distribute.
b. Design: Laura reported that the annual Christmas ornament will be the
current police station building, the old Georgetown Light & Water Work
Building, since we are celebrating its centennial this year. The committee
meets at 5:15 p.m. on the second Mondays of the month but will need to
move the date.
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c. Organization: Denise will call a committee meeting in September.
8. Linda suggested a discussion on downtown Christmas lighting for the
September 9'h board meeting. The meeting adjourned at 9:52 a.m.
Respectfully submitted:
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Karin Truxillo, Board Secretary Date
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Denise Jimenez, gi oard Chair Date
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