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Main Street Board Meeting
Minutes
09-10-2018
The Main Street Coordinating Board met on Monday, September 10, 2018 at noon in the Fair Theater.
Members attending the meeting were Ranada Jack, Jay Givens, Andrea Glenn, Cynthia Gregory, Kelly Alison,
John Tupen, Tori Huddleston and Melinda Brown. Business owner Michael Sawaya and his wife were also in
attendance.
Ranada called the meeting to order at 12:02 P.M.
Andrea moved to accept last minutes, John seconded, and the motion carried.
RELATIONSHIP ASSIGNMENTS
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Kelly talked about the letters she had sent out and named three local property owners that would be
willing to work on creative solutions for their window fronts.
Kelly mentioned the possibility of including Blanton Ross and Rhea Nielsen as the creatives for some
possible solutions. Blanton is a native of Plainview. He is an accomplished photographer and Rhea is a
talented visual artist are excited about
the possibility of spending more time in Plainview.
There was some discussion,
ideas at the October meeting.
Andrea mentioned some potential investors in downtown but said nothing appears to be on the market.
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Some discussion followed mentioning the 5 Street property and the Ima Fussbudget building, Serber,
and John Brown
FUTURE FAÇADE GRANT:
Kelly ask John if he could tell us anything about the façade issues they were finding solutions for at their
Ash street property.
John mentioned that the biggest issue at hand was the wiring and cost of updating the electrical system.
Discussion followed to how we could reflect these challenges in our future façade grant.
Melinda suggested we continue working on the future façade grant, taking into consideration how the
TIRZ board, which would start meeting in October, might affect our grant specifics. Those considerations
would include some Historic Guidelines as well, how to follow those, how code enforcement would be
involved, urban historical downtown design, how it is defined and how you get there.
Kelly ask if these guidelines were going to include something about murals, codes aesthetics etc...
Melinda said it had not been considered.
Everyone agreed to keep waiting to nail down the future façade grant.
4 POINT COMMITTEE SYSTEM:
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Promotions: Kelly and Andrea reported. Kelly mentioned that it was the best 2 Saturday from her
perspective. Her observations included new people at Yoga, and the fact that more people had moved
down Broadway.Speculation on that increase included the
Boutique and the great live music at the Brew, plus the vendors back on the sidewalks. Andrea had a
Dora suggested that we hand out
flyers at Walmart, Amigos and United and Kelly thought that would be a great idea. Someone suggested
that permission to do so should be sought and ask if there were litter laws in Plainview. John suggested
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banners across 5 street and was quickly regaled with stories of former banner problems in this windy
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city. We talked at length about having someone do a big 2 Saturday mural on the side of the Karate
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studio on Broadway and 5. Dora said she would talk to the owners and Kelly said if they give the go
ahead she could find someone to do it. Tori then read the email from Phyllis who was unable to attend.
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Phyllis reported that there were over 200 people downtown during Septembers 2 Saturday, that the
music was great and that some of the retailers had not done quite as well as before. Tori said she talked
to the vendors and the one who was selling jewelry had done pretty good. There were only two vendors.
Design: Cynthia ask how many colors were going to be included in the design guidelines. Ranada
responded that design wise there would be three colors and Kelly mentioned that there would probably be
a bigger variety of suggested palettes for how to use those three colors. Tori brought up the proposal for
Main Street to purchase said number of flower pots and offer them to the downtown businesses. She
passed around a picture of the pots and said they would be stained. Business owners would be on a first
come basis and Tori would be sending out emails to those businesses. Ranada suggested that we might
want to wait until the restructuring of Ash and Broadway streets to make sure they would fit in with future
plans. Kelly ask how long that would be. Melinda did not commit to the date but thought it might be 2020
sometimes. Kelly said that seemed like a long time to wait and that in the spirit of community support that
we vote to give at least $360 for four flower pots. Melinda had said they would cost about $85 each. Jay
figured what it would be for 12 of them, Melinda read and made the motion to provide 12 flower pots as a
first come basis after having been notified through email. There was even some discussion on guidelines
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proposal, Cynthia made the motion and Dora seconded it. Dora suggested that we follow up on weeds
and enforcement as well as co-ordinate with streets and parks to do some clean up days.
Organization: Melinda talked about Texas Main Street Texas Historical Commission mini training session
in Levelland Sept 26 and that we should sign up to go.
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Economic Restructuring: We did not have time to get to the Economic 4 Point of Main Street
Organization
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tori said we would have to look at the upcoming events ourselves, which are as follows:
Sept 8 Second Saturday
Sept 15- Cowboy Days / Hale on Wheels Parade downtown
Sept 25 2n Saturday and Plainview Downtown Association Meeting
Sept 8 Second Saturday
Sept 26- Levelland Trip Mini Training
Oct. 1 Main Street Meeting
Kelly ask to retrace and take a vote on the Flower Pot program. Vote was unanimous to offer 12 flower pots first
come first serve to downtown businesses.
Ranada adjourned the meeting 1:06pm
Respectively Submitted,
Kelly Alison Secretary