HomeMy WebLinkAboutBID Manager Report-Oct19 BID Manager Report
October 2019
Priorities for the Month:
■ Meet with Dave (Thrive Media) on monthly basis
■ Beautification holiday plan
o Coordinate boughs with Hmaks & Grounds Guys
o Coordinate with Forestry for permanent tree&wreaths
■ Holiday Parade sponsorship finalized
o Posters,postcards, save the dates all designed and sent to print
o Start coloring book design
o Billboard&Bus ads sent to print
■ Update parade entry sheets for insurance/payment
■ Coordinate misc. parade items; securing contracts
■ 2020 Operating Plan completed
■ Weekly meetings with 2 fall interns
■ Start Holiday Bingo (replacing passports)-encourage spending local over the holidays
■ Continue NEW email template to be sent out on a bi-weekly basis to property/business
owners
■ Change message on interchangeable sign
■ Continuous website updates
■ Reconcile gift card account every Friday
■ Develop and send the monthly newsletter
■ Put all advertising medias in place for the month &invoiced businesses for
reimbursement(buses, billboards, directory ads, banners)
Committee Reports:
Marketing Consortium
■ Put together the monthly agenda
■ Sent out prior minutes and agenda
■ Attended monthly meeting
■ Attended Holiday meeting-Whoville
o Tickets on sale for Breakfast with the Grinch
■ Coordinating Trick or Treat barricades with Farmers Market
Beautification/Retention Grant/Mural Grant
■ Beautification plan
o Upgrade holiday decor
■ New permanent tree this year(2019)more updates for 2020
o Look into local grants &OACF funds (Dec)
o Will also have some funding from Holiday Parade profits
■ Started collecting available wall locations for murals
■ Testing wreaths soon
■ Coordinated banner take downs and wreath installs; and installation of lights of
the 9 trees in Opera House Square
■ Retention Grant
o Olive &Rose paperwork submitted for payment
■ Mural Grant
o Put together available walls of property owners who have reached out to
me
Holiday Parade
■ Completed all promotional materials
■ Sponsorship deadline has passed;parade entries open until Oct. 15''
■ Coloring book design-last promo piece to put together
■ Need volunteers for the night of
■ Setting up meetings for banners to be printed&police coordination for the night
of
■ Need to secure judges for award winners
■ Will start line up &exit maps late Oct.
Other Highlights/Projects
■ Need to update website sponsor feed for holiday parade sponsors
■ Will need to connect with new website company-Candeo is closing
■ Grant applications-holiday parade finished-WPS; will look into a beautification
grant after the holidays
■ Update website downtown directory(Dec.)
■ Will make Facebook event for holiday bingo
■ Will start design of holiday bingo in early Nov.
o Bingo will run Nov. 23-Dec. 31