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7-06-2015
Minutes
The Main Street Program Coordinating Board met Monday, July 6, 2015 in the City Council Chambers at
City Hall. The meeting was called to order by President Chris LeFevre at 12:11 P.M.
Board Members in attendance were as follows: Chris LeFevre, Diane Book, Paul Drager, Beverly
McCaskill, Debbie McPherson, and Janice Payne. Also in attendance was Melinda Brown and Teressa
King.
The minutes for June 1, 2015 had been reviewed previously by members. Paul made a motion to accept
them as read and Beverly seconded this motion. All approved.
HOT Grants received an application submitted by PHS Class 1965 Class Reunion requesting an amount of
$750. This event to be held September 25th and 26th. Paul made the motion to accept their
application/Grant of $750 and Janice seconded the motion. Motion passed.
Committee chairperson, Beverly gave her report of the Main Street Open House - a good turnout, good
food, good information on the Main Street Program and introductions of the Board Members. A brief
discussion followed about the possibility of repeating same type of event each year.
The Economic Restructuring Committee gave a Task Force Update on the town meeting held at
Grumpy's. Phil directed the meeting. He encouraged everyone to continue promoting the survey of
public opinion and to reinforce that Main Street does not have an opinion until the survey is completed.
Beverly asked about having another meeting before the opinion surveys closes July 31st. A general
consensus felt that because of the relatively poor turnout for both meetings there does not need more
attention given other than the voting to be completed by concerned citizens. Andrew reported to
Melinda that on survey monkey 830 had participated in the survey.
Committee Recruitment will be before August.
Promotions Committee reported on the Parade held on July 3 rd. Paul commended Melinda for her
good job organizing the Parade. It was a big success with many entries and many people in attendance.
Melinda, in turn, thanked all that helped with it. 2nd Friday event, Art Walk, will be held July 10th with
many more vendors, Farmer's Market, Music going on at Grumpy's and The Brew.
Janice had nothing new to report from the Design Committee. She still needs to hear back from the
Texas Tech professor. This committee meeting and recruitment will be by August 3 rd.
The first Annual Citywide Clean -Up Day will be held on Saturday, July 25th. Volunteers will begin at 8
A.M. There will be 5-6 extra containers for dumping debris. Chris suggested to have a Main Street
CleanUp Day. Melinda thought to post pone it until later in the fall.
There was no more discussion and Paul moved to end the meeting. Chris adjourned the meeting at
12:50P. M.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Book