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07-03-12 DBID Minutes1 1 l" t 4-fl KALISPELL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Board Meeting Agenda Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM Whipps Building Conference Room 14 3rd Street East, Second Floor Kalispell, Mt. 59901 Call Meeting to order Approval of the Agenda Acceptance June 5, 2012 minutes HEARING OF THE PUBLIC BUSINESS Welcome - City Manager Doug Russell Discussion - Downtown issues and partnership projects Events calendar discussion - should we limit the entries to downtown only? New board member discussion Formal motion to approve/reject bench project COORDINATORS REPORT NEW BUSINESS Next meeting - Tuesday, August 7, 7:30 AM Future scheduled meetings: 9/3, 10/2, 11/5, 12/3/12 ADJOURNMENT P. O. Box 1997, Kalispell, Mt. 59903 * (406) 253-6923 * pam@downtownkalispell.com KALISPELL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BOARD MEETING MINUTES Meeting date: July 3, 2012 Location: 14 P St. E., Kalispell, MT. PRESENT: Margaret Lekander (Chairperson), Janet Clark, Tim Price, Pam Mower & Pam Carbonari (BID Coordinator) ABSENT: Marshall Noice & Jon Fetveit PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE: Doug Russell, Kalispell City Manager and Katharine Thompson, City of Kalispell MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:40 AM by Chair Margaret Lekander MOTION: to approve the agenda dated 7/3/12 and minutes of 6/4/12 by Janet, second by Pam Approved unanimously HEARING OF THE PUBLIC: Katharine Thompson reported on the Core Area Revitalization plan and the intent to hold a public open house on the conceptual renderings, August 28,2012. BUSINESS: Welcome to Doug Russell, the new City Manager for Kalispell. Board members introduced themselves to Mr. Russell and he shared his personal bio. Board members and Mr. Russell discussed current projects that the BID has worked on and joint projects in conjunction with the city. Potential additional projects were discussed. The board had a discussion regarding our events calendar and whether we should limit the events to just the downtown or broaden to include any event in Kalispell. A motion was made by Tim and seconded by Pam to feature events within Kalispell. John Hinchey is interested in serving on the Board of Directors. A motion made by Janet and seconded by Tim to approved John Hinchey to the Board passed unanimously. The recommendation with be forwarded to the Kalispell City Council for confirmation. Janet made a motion which was seconded by Pam to approve the bench project to Line-X of Kalispell. The project will begin the first part of August. ADJOURN Janet moved to adjourn the meeting at 9:30 AM, seconded by Pam - Approved unanimously NEXT MEETING Tuesday, August 7 at 7:30 AM — Whipps Building, Second Floor Conference Room Respectfully submitted, Pam Carbonari, BID Coordinator July 3, 2012 Coordinators Report to the Board Downtown Development • The new owners of Montana Expressions West - Karen Cramer and Stephanie Hanson have renamed their business Beckman's Fine Furnishing. The Stone Chair has closed and a new business Big Bear Fire Power will open mid June. • Line-X and Advanced Powder Coating have offered bids to paint the bench leg/arms in the BID District. Line-X removed and replaced a bench so that they could offer a solid bid on the project. Advanced Powder Coating looked at the benches and then offered a bid. LineX has a two year limited warranty and Advanced Powder Coating has a 1 hear warranty on the finish. Prices will be discussed and presented at the meeting. • I reported at the last meeting that Main Street has 37 decorative light poles, First Ave. E., 48 decorative light poles, lst Ave. W. has 37 decorative light poles and 2nd Ave. W. has 20. The total number of decorative light poles is 142. I also reported that the price for a hanging pot would be $45.00 each, I have subsequently visited with 3 other nursery's and have found that Wild Geese Gardens would sell us the pots for $27.50 each. The problem remains with the watering of the flowers. I have been informed that the flowers need to be watered twice a day during the summer, including Saturday and Sunday. Our downtown advocate could water once per day Monday — Friday but we would need a volunteer or second employee to water the second time and also on weekends. Watering could happen with a water tank pulled behind the cart (cost approximately $300.00) or with a separate 4 wheel cart that holds extensive hose (cost approximately $100.00 plus hose of $120.00). I believe we could secure enough businesses that would be willing to allow us to use their faucet for watering the plants... A discussion regarding this item is in order. MEETINGS • Attended the Kalispell City Council meeting and represented the KDA regarding the Kalispell City Airport. COMMUNICATION/COORDINATION • Your final budget numbers for your review and adoption. • Wooden coin program is the "hot" item at the Chamber of Commerce. We are in the process of printing more maps and additional coins have been ordered. Vonnie Day from the KCVB believes this is a great advertising option for the downtown and strongly supports the continuation. • The CORE review committee continues to meet discussing the railroad corridor. This committee which I chair should complete their work by the end of July. • DNS Technologies — Dave Bailon is working with me on our computer/printing needs. Per your authorization at the last meeting, Dave will be purchasing the items and installing within the next two weeks. • Jim Comer has been our temporary downtown ambassador while Paul Faesel was out with knee surgery. Paul returned to work on Monday, June 4. EVENTS • We held our 2nd First Fridays in Downtown Kalispell this last Friday June 1. Downtown establishments remained open until 8:00 with special discounts, food and some drinks. May 1 was well attended and June 1 was slightly less probably due to the Graduation at Flathead High School. • Thursday!Fest begins June 28 — September 6. We have secured the bands for all of the events, new security and volunteers to assist with ticket sales and beer/wine purchase. I am in need of a volunteer to assist with check in and check out. Please contact me if you know of someone that would be a great volunteer assistant.