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March 2020
Priorities for the Month:
• Develop and send two monthly newsletters
a BID Business Newsletter
o Community Newsletter
• Meet with Dave (Thrive Media) on a monthly basis
• 2020 bus & billboard schedule — 2 slots left
• Change message on interchangeable sign
• Continuous website updates
o Updated directory link
o Added more monthly events
• Reconcile gift card account every Friday
• New `What's happening Downtown' weekly social post on Facebook and Instagram
• Put all advertising medias in place for the month & invoiced businesses for
reimbursement (buses, billboards, directory ads, banners)
Committee Reports:
Marketing Consortium
o Put together the monthly agenda
o Sent out prior minutes and agenda
o Attended monthly meeting
Beautification/Retention Grant/Mural Grant
o Beautification
o Spring flowers are ordered from Hrnaks
o Watering Wednesday! A hopeful initiative for members to water flower pots
additional to contracted watering
o Use funding from 2019 Holiday Parade profits to go towards new 2020
holiday decor
o Retention Grant
o No pending applications
o Recruitment Grant
o No pending applications
o Mural Grant
o No pending applications
o City is starting a mini -mural program; contact Alexa for more details
■ Looking for Business owners to provide wall space and artists to
create designs
Cocoa Crawl
• Need to get final number/profit
o $1000 to be saved to purchase gift cards from participating businesses for
social media giveaways
Other Highlights/Projects
• Additional meetings and events I've attended/am attending: Gallery Walk, Strategic
Plan subcommittee, Member Social, Downtown Neighborhood Association?
• 2020 individual business listings on website need updating
• Set up two `Meet the Manager' socials/meetups
• UWO Downtown Scavenger Hunt — April 251
• Wine Walk prep — May 9th
o Businesses should sign up by April 3rd
• Completed 2020 Directory
• Update Opera House Square kiosk with Art City upon completion of directory