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November 2020
Priorities for the Month:
• Posted on social media 5+ times per week
• Continue email template to be sent out on a monthly basis to property/business owners
• Change message on interchangeable sign
• Continuous website updates
• Participate in weekly Community Partner Update with Oshkosh community leaders every
Wednesday
• Attend monthly Chamber EDAC meetings and give monthly BID update
• 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
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 Meetings are now the first Thursday of each month at Sam
o Next Beautification Committee meeting: 12/03 at 8:OOam — Zoom
o Holiday Beautification Update
■ Current amount fundraised: $22,500
■ New lights in Opera House Square
■ Tree Decorated by House of Flowers with new lighted ornaments
■ Additional greens, berries and birch poles for flower pots in Square
■ Our Square and other beautification efforts will be revealed on Nov. 20" for
our "Light up Downtown" night that will kick off our holiday season! Tree
lighting will be live streamed via Facebook.
o Retention Grant
o No pending applications
o Recruitment Grant
o No pending applications
o Mural Grant
o No pending applications
Holiday Parade
• Cancelled
Downtown for the Holidays Update (attached)
o Light Up Downtown — Nov. 201n
o Small Business Saturday — Nov. 281n
o Holiday Virtual Shop Hop —Dec. IOtn
o Letters to Seniors Week — Dec. 61n_12tn
o Shop Local Rewards Weekend — Dec. I I'-13tn
o Letters to Santa
o Santa Sightings
o Downtown Coloring Book
o Advertising: Billboard, Bus, Herald, Social Media, Print
Other Highlights/Projects
• Moved office from Chamber to OCVB
■ Files, bank account, technology
• Started setting up The BID on Microsoft Teams
■ Train BID members on how to use Teams and SharePoint
■ Establish chairs of each new BID committee and monthly meeting times
■ Complete project charters for each committee
• Attend Leadership Oshkosh monthly
• Guest spoke at Chamber OC Connection Breakfast, Southwest Rotary and Kiwanis
• Media Opportunity Nov. 20t' with WEDC Main St.
• Contracting with freelance content writer for monthly blog posts
• Attending two Winter Farmers Markets to promote downtown and sell downtown gift
cards
• Seagull Mitigation Project 2021
• Renew 2020 Contracts