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4B Minutes
April 23rd, 2019
Beverly Howard, Barbara Martin, Carrie Bilyeu, John Payne, Will
Dutton
Beverly Branch, Jeff Springer
Economic Director Shani Bradshaw, Stefani Dodson
1. Call Meeting to Order.
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2. Minutes of the Meeting of March 26, 2019
Beverly Howard made a motion to accept minutes.
Barbara Martin seconded. Motion passes unanimously.
3. Discuss Future Board Meeting Dates.
Shani speaks and asked if they would like to start having their meetings quarterly with
special meeting when needed. The board said agrees that this would be better.
4. Open Discussion of Future Items.
Shani speaks about future items. She brought up the meeting with City Council, 4A, and
4B that will be in June. She also went over everything the 4B Board can do with the sales
tax money. She went over the handouts she gave the board. She explained that 4B is retail
driven and asked is there anything the board would like to see come into the downtown
area as it is struggling.
John Payne speaks about what they have done for the downtown area. He states they paid
for signage, park, etc.
The board discusses further about the parks and what they would like done to Porter.
Beverly Howard expresses that she would like to see the softball fields get fixed. She
stated that it will bring in more games if they fixed the fields.
The board requests that Shani get the numbers together to fix the softball fields and present
it to the board.
Shani asked if they would like more events to bring in people. They agree that they would
like changes. They spoke about other cities and what they are offering.
John Payne wants to build a new park. He would like to get an action plan on building the
rest of Porter Park.
They do not want to put any money into the Railroad park because it doesn't bring in new
people.
5. Review Financials.
Discussion about the financials
6. Input From Citizens.
No Citizens
7. Adjourn.
6:57 PM