HomeMy WebLinkAboutcclc.minutes.11172004COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION
MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 17, 2004
Meeting was called to order by Chairperson, Bill Dinsmoor at 8:30 a.m.
Commissioners in attendance: Charles Kennedy. Terry Butler and Marc
Breslin, Excused were Mark Goodman, John Starr, Eric Cohen and Andrew
Kole.
Bid update: Jane Jenkins who formed the Boulder BID will be here at the next
CCLC meeting Dec. 1 st to discuss the BID process that they used; pros and
cons.
Market Expansion
Bill went over the proposed reconfigurafion of the market.
Terry feels we should extend across Galena.
Allegheny Meadows agreed that we should do the cooking demonstrations by
the fountain on the Hyman mall across from the Elks Bldg. He agreed that the
market should move to Hyman.
The board said the ideal setup would be to go east on Hyman and intersect with
Galena to Cooper. Like a T. Staff will provide a map for the worksession with
the City Manager.
Marc said the proposal is a great idea: The Galena issue will be complex due to
local businesses and transportation issues.
Terry said you have hot blocks and lets try to be bold and move over Galena St.
The board discussed the possibility in the future of a two day market. Jack
D'Orio said it is difficult to do a two-day market with getting up so early and
trying to pick fresh fruit for the next day. We could start a couple weeks early
and stay late.
Marc said a Sunday market would take away from the uniqueness that we have.
Allegheny said Sunday would be slower because people pick up their
vegetables on Saturday.
Budget 2005
Maggie presented the proposed budget increases. There were many ways to
tackle this: One, increase the fee for the craft vendors only, increase fee for all
etc. Jack said some of his people were not willing to do an increase. Marc said
he would come to one of Jack's meeting to discuss it. This is a
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business/marketing venture and all parties must participate. Marc suggested a
10% to 20% increase across the board.
Web fee.
Bill said he doesn't have faith in the Web bringing people to the market. Terry
also agreed. Maggie suggested we have post cards to hand out. Marc and
Charles said this is good advertising for the hotels etc. The board asked Maggie
to check with the hotels to see if there was a charge to put the post card out in
their hotels. Marc said he would negotiate with the ACRA and get the web
setup for free. Charles and Marc will work with the MAA to see if we can cut
the entertainment budget in half and have the students play July & August.
Bill asked staff to provide the 2003 and 2004 budget for the next meeting.
The board decided we needed two farmers and two craft vendors to be
represented.
Jack said at one point we need to be incorporated to eliminate liability on the
directors.
There was much discussion about who should handle the accounting. Possibly
an outside person should write the checks. Charles and Marc said the manager
should handle the checkbook whomever that might be. Jack said there are
approximately 30 written check. Maggie said bills didn't get pay for over two
months at some points.
Maggie was directed to revise the budget and submit it to §taff. The revised
budget will be discussed at the Dec. 15th meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.
Kathleen J. Strickland, Chief Deputy Clerk