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Main Street Board Meeting
Minutes
08-06-2018
The Main Street Coordinating Board met on Monday, August 6, 2018 at noon in the Fair Theater.
Members attending the meeting were Logan Pritchett, Jay Givens, Andrea Glenn, Cynthia Gregory, Kelly Alison,
Tonya Keesee, John Tupin, Tori Huddleston and Melinda Brown.
Jay called the meeting to order at 12:03 P.M.
Jay said that there was a mistake with the Façade Grant on the Turpin
application. The minutes said that the grant was passed, Jay corrected that to say that the grant had been tabled
until a later date. Logan then moved that the minutes be approved, Tonya seconded, and the motion was carried.
RELATIONSHIP ASSIGNMENTS
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Kelly ask if anyone else was having any luck following up with property owners. She stated that she had
not gotten any response from the round of letters she sent out to the owners whose property was vacant.
Tonya suggested that everyone send out a similar letter and Kelly said she would email the one she sent
to the other members, so they could modify and use it themselves.
4 POINT COMMITTEE SYSTEM:
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Promotions: Kelly ask who was in charge and Andrea pointed out that the 2 Sat. Committees were
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which would be Kelly and Andrea. Andrea gave a short synopsis about the success of 2 Sat and
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mentioned the backpack giveaway scheduled for the 2 Sat in August. Kelly spoke about needing
volunteers for various task and Tonya said she would help with setting up the event. Kelly told her that
Melissa Turpin was the Committee Lead for that task.
Design: Tori said Stephanie from The Radiant Lily was in charge of the design committee and she was
unable to make the meeting. Design was tabled until the Sept. meeting.
Organization: Melinda talked about how much Tori is taking on as far as Main Street and other project
organization and said that she would not be as available as in the past.
Economic Restructuringt
there might be a better chair than a Religion Professor. John Turpin said he would be happy to look into it
and see what he could find out about market analysis and other task involved.
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In regard to Sept. meeting, Tori ask if we would rather do the 2 Monday or the Tues. after Labor Day.
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Andrea suggested the 2 Monday and everyone agreed.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Aug 10
Aug 21- Quarterly Coffee for PDA Tues 9am at the Brew, guest speaker is the TBAC to talk about special
permits for specific businesses.
Sept 4 Afterhours at Wayland
Sept 8 Second Saturday
Sept 15- Cowboy Days Parade
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Sept 25 New date for PDA
NEW BUSINESS:
Melinda introduced Jeff Johnson, the Community Development Manager and person to talk to about Code
enforcement.
where code
officers would target particular whole areas and clear out any code violations in that area in one big
sweep.
Jeff said that the new approach was to talk to the violators and try and educate and help them before
issuing tickets.
There was talk about planning and zoning and perhaps completely re-doing that system
Jeff talked about the new pool and how it was a drastic improvement. Cynthia ask about the playground
equipment and parking and expressed some of the reservations the neighborhood was talking to her
about.
Kelly ask about the issue with Economic Development as concerned with code enforcement. She asks
about a way to encourage people not to use downtown storefronts for storage and about codes that would
keep people for investing in downtown. Jeff mentioned
so as not to put new pressure on the struggling system.
John Turpin said that even if the city would allow certain business to be able to act within existing codes
that they would still face problems with insurance.
Jeff said that people should feel free to just come and talk to code enforcement and stressed that
communication was really the key to working these problems out. He said that he was all about Economic
Development and welcomed any suggestions that would spur that on.
Melinda mentioned that his phone number was 806-296-1120
OTHER NEW BUSINESS:
FAÇADE IMPROVEMENT INCENTIVE GRANT
Melinda suggested some real restructuring and suggested we all take a closer look at the other details.
Kelly suggested we wait until at least October. Andrea suggested we take a good look at it as a group in
September.
Jay adjourned the meeting 12:59pm
Respectively Submitted,
Kelly Alison Secretary