Downtown Boone Development Association

Town of Boone and Downtown Boone Development Association (DBDA) Contract Renewal Process – An Update

We have had some recent inquiries about the contract renewal between the DBDA and the Town of Boone. I thought this would be a great opportunity to update you on the process of our contract renewal as the Town of Boone’s Main Street Agency. Our focal point as the Town of Boone’s Main Street Agency focuses on the Main Street Program which consists of four areas of focus – Organization, Design/Public Art, Promotion, and Economic Restructuring. We start our contract renewal process at least 30 days prior to the end of our current contract on June 30th with a presentation & renewal request to the Boone Town Council. This presentation includes reporting on the DBDA’s yearly spending, a proposed plan‐of‐work for the next contract period, and descriptions of the organization’s activities and their outcomes that have taken place during the current contract period. In September of each year, the DBDA submits an independent annual audit to the Town of Boone & NC Dept of State, which includes reporting such as: itemized & verified expenditure records and accounting for all of our funding & funding sources. This year, the Town of Boone is also conducting a survey of downtown land and business owners, in addition to our regular reporting, in an effort to determine the value of the Downtown Boone Development Association and the role it playsin the Main Street Program. Please be looking‐out for this survey, your input is very important! Survey results will be submitted to the Boone Town Council by May 1st. As always, we are happy to answer any question that you might have regarding our programming, so please don’t hesitate to contact our office.We are already working towards renewing of our contract with the Town of Boone by June 30th, and we are looking forward to another productive year in 2010‐2011!

DBDA Member Announcement

John Mena has asked the DBDA to pass along a wonderful idea that he started to thank the Town of Boone Public Works Department and their families for all of the hard work they have been doing this winter. John asked us to announce on his behalf: “An account at High Country Bank has been started so that business owner and private citizens can contribute to a party for all of the Town’s snow removal guys and gals. These guys and gals have done a great job and I feel like we should reward them and their families with a party. Mark Lewis, owner of Beef‐O‐Brady’s, said that he would be willing to host the event and Footsloggers has also agreed to contribute. Our Town of Boone Public Works Department has been putting in some long tough hours and I think that we as a community should show ourappreciation.
If you could send this out to DBDA members and let them know that they can help with this event by making a contribution to “The Snowmen of Boone” account at any High Country Bank Location, or they can drop checks by Haircut 101.No set date yet, it will depend on the weather. This is not a tax deductible contribution. All monies donated will go toward the event expenses.”

We are very proud to be sponsoring the Jones House Community Center’s Summer Concerts on the Lawn Series again this year! Please feel free to print up any coupon or promotional materials for distribution during the events this summer.Please bring these items to Mark Freed at the Jones House Community Center before the event to be displayed for consumer consumption.

REMINDER: Please attend our monthly Board of Directors meeting the first Thursday of every month at 9 am in the conference room of the Watauga County Library.

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