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October 2018
Priorities for the Month:
■ Website content changes/additions/subtractions
■ Website training
o Will need to manually move stuff over to new site (events & some page changes)
■ Start Holiday passport program
■ Mural Grant Program
■ Weekly meeting with 2 BID interns
■ Holiday parade excel entry forms/payments/insurance
■ Secure banner sponsorships; spring & fall seasons open
■ Holiday parade marketing materials: save the dates/postcards/posters/billboard/buses
■ 2019 budget and operating plan
■ Holiday Parade emails-misc.items
■ Change message on interchangeable sign
■ Featured gift card monthly merchant
■ Work with Stellar Blue on monthly social media calendar
■ 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
Committee Reports:
Marketing Consortium
■ Put together the monthly agenda
■ Sent out prior minutes and agenda
■ Attended monthly meeting
■ Coordinating Trick or Treat barricades with Farmers Market
■ Attended Holiday meeting
o Tickets on sale for Breakfast with the Grinch
Beautification &Retention
■ Mural grant application completed
■ New banner sponsors-working with Wisconsin Herd on holiday banners
■ Downtown clean-up day:partnership with Boys & Girls Club(Oct)
■ Retention grant submitted
■ Coordinating holiday decor,pots,holiday tree,banners;will test wreaths in mid
Oct.
Holiday Parade
■ Held committee meetings
■ Secure misc.requests for parade
■ Put together excel sheets for entries and sponsorships
■ Put together all promo materials
RFG
■ Carrot&Kale paperwork completed;waiting on receipts
Other Highlights/Projects
■ Put together sheet for expenses and revenues for advertising line item
■ Put together all events on new website
■ Put together all logos for website sponsor feed
■ Put together coloring book pages
■ Worked registration for wine walk
■ Submitted grant application to WPS- for website funding-waiting on response