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November 2019
Priorities for the Month:
• Met with Better Dash Faster Consulting-Strategic Plan
• Distributed barricades for Downtown Trick or Treat
• Meet with Dave (Thrive Media) on a monthly basis
• Beautification decor coordinated and installed
• Tested all wreaths-lights &bows
• Bought additional lights for 9 trees
• Holiday Parade staging and exip maps
• Holiday Parade coloring book design completed&printed
• Collect all parade insurance forms/payments
• Coordinate misc. parade items;bleachers,porta potties,radios, cones,banners, etc.
• Holiday Parade press release written and sent
• Holiday Parade volunteer tasks completed
• Holiday Parade judges secured
• Holiday Parade grand marshal secured
• Holiday Parade arrival times &logistic instructions sent
• Met with police dept. to go over logistics for the parade
• Met with Christy to go over logistics for Breakfast with the Grinch
• NEW Bingo programmed launched for the holiday season
• Weekly meetings with 2 fall interns
• Holiday Parade marketing materials distributed
• Continue NEW email template to be sent out on a monthly basis to property/business owners
• Change message on interchangeable sign
• Continuous website updates
• Holiday parade sponsors updated on homepage feed
• 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
• Met with new chair for 2020
• Attended Holiday meeting-Whoville
• Breakfast with the Grinch loam seating sold out; 8:30am seating with less than 85 seats left
Beautification/Retention Grant/Mural Grant
• Beautification
• New permanent tree installed
• All other holiday decor coordinated and installed
• Look into local grants &OACF funds (Dec)
• No meetings for this committee until Feb.
• Add OACF link to our website (Dec)
• Will also have some funding from Holiday Parade profits to go towards new 2020 holiday decor
• Retention Grant
0 Olive&Rose waiting on paid invoice to reimburse grant
• Recruitment Grant
• I potential applicant for early 2020
• Mural Grant
• Coordinating available wall space
Holiday Parade
• WOSH Interview
• Local 5 Live Interview done with Title Sponsor&4imprint
• NBC26Interview
Other Highlights/Projects
• Distribute sign-up sheet for buses and billboards for 2020
• Put together Breakfast with the Grinch adult and kid packets
• 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 (Nov. 20)