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March 2019
Priorities for the Month:
■ Wine Walk
o Wine order
o Distribute postcards
o Hand in Class B license &individual licenses
■ Meet with marketing committee for social media proposals
■ Distribute 2019 downtown directory
■ Kiosk document/map sent to ACS
■ Meet weekly with new spring semester intern-Emily
■ Put contract together for pots&bump-outs
■ Change message on interchangeable sign
■ Put internship on Handshake website
■ Continuous website updates
o Updated available properties
■ Reconcile gift card account every Friday
■ Develop and send the monthly newsletter
■ Put all advertising medial 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
Beautification/Retention Grant/Mural Grant
■ Held monthly meeting
■ Boughs removed
■ Get summer banner designs approved
■ Update flower pot maps/walk thru
■ 1 pending retention grant
Recruitment Fund Grant
■ 1 potential grant application to come forward before May
Other Highlights/Projects
■ Met with potential seasonal business entrepreneur
■ Met with UWO-Find your Fun discussion
■ Met with the Downtown YMCA for potential collaboration projects
■ Set up Granary with the gift card program-part of partner package
■ Bi-weekly meetings with Visit Oshkosh on partnership opportunities
■ Meet with Forestry to discuss holiday beautification options