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November 2018
Priorities for the Month:
■ Test all wreaths and replace bows
■ New holiday banners delivered; working on new winter banners
■ Setup & teardown of the holiday parade
■ Breakfast with the Grinch promotions/tickets/packets & run registration table
■ Put together the 2019 operating plan
■ Holiday Parade staging & exit maps
■ Holiday Parade coloring book to print
■ Holiday Parade marketing materials to print & distributed
■ Holiday Parade volunteer tasks
■ Holiday Parade press release
■ Holiday Parade arrival times & instruction letters
■ Distribute 2019 directory ad sign-up/detail sheet
■ Passport booklets to print & marketing materials
■ Change message on interchangeable sign
■ Meet w/ BID interns weekly
■ Featured gift card monthly merchant
■ Working with Stellar Blue on monthly social media calendar
■ 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
Committee Reports:
Marketing Consortium
■ Put together the monthly agenda
■ Sent out prior minutes and agenda
■ Attended holiday committee meeting
o Breakfast with the Grinch packets/promotions
o Passport booklets distributed
o Distribute Small Business Saturday materials
o Put together facebook event/website event for open house
■ Attended monthly meeting
Recruitment Fund Grant
0 Submitted invoices for payment of Carrot & Kale grant
Beautification & Retention
■ Submitted paid invoice for Escape Oshkosh 146 Algoma Blvd. building; new
sign -Retention Grant
■ Coordinated tree delivery, tree lighting, holiday pots, and pole decor/banners
■ Held monthly meeting
o Went over holiday updates
o Went over 1st mural grant submitted for New Moon Cafe building
Holiday Parade
■ Finalized banners for parade
■ Finalized and distributed yard signs for staging
■ Met with Police Dept. & Kathy Snell one last time for parade logistics
■ Pick up of all materials: poles, banners, radios, coloring books, wagons
■ Additional trash cans distributed
■ Volunteer tasks assigned
■ All promotional materials completed
■ Press release sent
■ Distributed posters and postcards
■ Collect all payments and insurance information for all entries
■ Sent Emily from Oshkosh Media parade lineup for
■ All parade entry information sent out
Other Highlights/Projects
■ Attended City -Art & Beautification committee meeting
■ Attended Gallery Walk discussion at UWO
■ Downtown Holiday Open House -Dec. 8th
■ Distribute sign-up sheet for buses and billboards for 2019
■ Continue working on banner sponsorships
■ Continue to make adjustments to new website
o Update pages
o Sponsor feed
o Ft. monthly gift card merchant
■ Radio promo on WOSH
■ TV promo channel 5-holiday parade