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The Main Street Advisory Board met on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 9:01 AM virtually over a Zoom Meeting.
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Christine Tomaszewski called the meeting to order at 9:01 AM. Members: Christine Tomaszewski, Kate Hill, Dave
Wilks, Lauren Mendoza, Michele Jaroszewski-Webb, and Bobby Weisbrod were in attendance.
Absent - Aaron Adams
Staff in attendance: Kim McAuliffe, Downtown Development Manager, Britin Bostick, Downtown & Historic Planner,
Sharon Parker, Board Liaison.
Guests in attendance: None
Regular Session
(This regular session may, at any time, be recessed to convene an Executive Session for any purpose authorized by
the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551.)
A. Call to order at 9:01 a.m.
B. Discussion on how this virtual conference will be conducted, to include options for public comments and how
the public may address the Commission – Kim McAuliffe, Downtown Development Manager
Staff reviewed the virtual conduct for the meeting, reminded the board that the meeting was open and visible
to the public and would be recorded.
C. Consideration and possible action regarding approval of the April 9, 2021 board meeting minutes – Christine
Tomaszewski, Board Chair
Motion by C. Tomaszewski to approve the minutes as presented. Second by D. Wilks.
Approved: 6-0 Aaron Adams absent
D. Update on the proposed changes to the Design Guidelines and the next steps in the adoption process – Britin
Bostick, Downtown & Historic Planner
• New Format – Chapters and Organization – Chapters were reduced from 14 to 5, duplicate
guidelines were removed.
• New Content – Architectural Style Illustrations
• New Requirements – Downtown – Keeping a lot of the current content just reorganizing it.
• New Requirements – Downtown Area 2 Infill – Instruction of guidance for infill construction and its
transition areas that uses two primary streetscape contexts. Urban Commercial and Urban
Residential.
• New Requirements – Signs – Keeping current content and additional guidance for clarifying on
primary sign, total signs per business, Illumination styles and signs for upper floor businesses.
Stakeholder Engagement – Virtual Open House Wednesday, April 28th. Direct communication with property
owners, project stakeholders.
Remaining Project timeline – Public comment April 28 – May 14, City Council workshop May 25th,
Recommendation to Council June, Council makes a decision on adoption July.
E. Discussion on Project Teams, Partner updates, and BRE visits
a. Breakfast Bites – June 3rd with a topic of Hidden Histories, Britin will be a speaker. For the rest of
the year, we are looking at doing some programs on digital marketing and social media. The
December meeting, we want to have it revolve around getting people out at the beginning of the
year. Typically, people want to start the year off with saving money or not eating out. We want to
come up with ideas to get them out those first few months.
Minutes of a Meeting of the
Main Street Advisory Board of the
City of Georgetown, Texas
Friday, May 14, 2021
b. Blazin’ Beer Crawl – Date August 7th, 3-6 p.m. General admission tickets cost $25.00, VIP 2-6
p.m. ticket cost $55.00 Ready to send out sponsorship info and we already have a few Breweries
signed up. Ticket sales start June 1st.
c. Labor Day sidewalk sale – some people had it on Sunday last year also, I think we could market
it as a full weekend event. Help to get this started, Christine will help and so will Kate.
d. Shop small, small business Saturday coming up not to long after that, will need some help with
this also. – Kate will help with this.
e. Partner updates – We have been working with a lot of our preservation partners this month. Britin
and Ann Evans have been hosting the weekly Tuesday Talks. They are at 12:00 p.m. Every
Tuesday this month. This weekend Williamson Museum is hosting the Marking History Tours.
Preservation Georgetown is participating in this as well.
f. Feedback – possibly having a historic addition of an educational vendor fair and hosting
speakers. Specialties in historic windows, some sort of products that a business owner would be
interested in. focus on the preservation side of it. Educate on our guidelines. Maybe next May for
preservation month and partner with Preservation Georgetown. – keep moving forward with
ideas.
g. BRE visits – K. McAuliffe will be meeting with Sweet Lemon next week, this is not a traditional
BRE, it is more to talk about the public space. Christine – schedule the quarterly volunteer lunch
– June 21st at 11:30.
F. Staff Report – Kim McAuliffe, Downtown Development Manager
Façade and Sign Grant Balance - $50,664.00 but we have $48,001.50 encumbered. True balance $2,662.50. We
should be getting around $13,000 for the CAFR adjustment. Submitted a one-time request with Council for
$50,000. Because of not being able to have our events we are down about $50,000.
New developments: Good folks – still doing quite a bit of renovations on the inside. Looks to be several months
away. City Post – late June. Foundry 42 opened in December, but the coffee shop portion hadn’t opened at that
time, fortunately it opened last Saturday. Grow Salon and wine bar has also opened.
Construction updates: In 2015, the City issued a bond to do sidewalk improvements, each year we do $1M for
sidewalk improvements in downtown. This year they are doing Rock street, on the west side there are no side
walks and head in parking. 7th & 8th street will see some improvements at the intersection. We are losing about 5 of
the Oak trees downtown due to the winter storm. We are working to replace them.
Upcoming Events –
May 20th 5:30 – 7:30 Downtown Public Spaces creative placemaking event where we are asking the public to
come out, we will have a couple food trucks, live music, activities for kids. We want to hear from the public on what
types of public spaces would you like to see in downtown, what are some of the things you like, what do you not
like. This should be a fun event, but it will also be helpful for us to receive feedback.
June 11th 4-6 pm. At the Library - Main street Star Award to Rachel
June 12th – Second Saturday Market Days
June 19th – Pistons on the Square
June Meeting may be in person, also would like to propose for July if we don’t have any action items if we would
want to cancel this meeting. Board is fine with not having the meeting in July.
Adjourn
Motion by C. Tomaszewski to adjourn the meeting. Second by, D. Wilks. The meeting was adjourned at 9:56 AM.
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Approved by the Main Street Advisory Board on
Date
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Main Street Advisory Board Chair Main Street Advisory Board Secretary
06-11-21
on behalf of the Main Street Advisory Board