DSI sets goals for 2007
BY LESLIE RICHARDSON, STAFF WRITER
- REPUBLICAN & Herald
01/17/2007
SHENANDOAH - Downtown Shenandoah Inc. has a goal for
2007 - to be more goal oriented.
During Tuesday's meeting, newly elected president Val
Macdonald told the group that she learned many things at the recent
Upper Schuylkill training sessions. One of the items was the way meetings
are conducted to focus on and help subcommittees achieve set goals.
Macdonald said she will meet with the chairperson of each subcommittee
and attend a meeting of each group to introduce the material from
the meeting to each committee. The committees will then report on
the progress toward reaching their goals each month.
Miranda Hess, an intern from Kutztown University working
with Upper Schuylkill presented the group with a file of all downtown
properties that can be used in the group's Main Street applications
and grant programs.
"It has pretty much everything you need to know
about the properties including owners names, how many times ownership
changed and the sale value," Hess said.
Macdonald said this would be very helpful in the efforts.
The promotions committee has decided to host the Easter
Parade in the borough again this year. They are also discussing ideas
for a fall fund raiser and the Upper Schuylkill Homecoming weekend
that will be held Labor Day weekend.
Macdonald announced that the executive committee met
in early January and decided to offer a choice of four health care
plans to the downtown manager.
"We will probably offer a 75 to 80 percent reimbursement
up to $250 so they can pick the plan they want," Macdonald said.
Macdonald said she is hoping to begin advertising the
position by the end of the month in the local newspapers, out of the
area papers, and on the Upper Schuylkill and Pennsylvania Downtown
Center Web sites.
The position will be funded with a second year program
grant.
Arrangements will be made in a week or two to have William
Fontana, Pennsylvania Downtown Center, conduct an assessment of the
group that is also a part of the program requirements.
Members will work on the new meeting location, the A.P.
D'Amato Post building, to paint, furnish and install telephone lines
and computer hookups before the assessment.
© The REPUBLICAN & Herald
2007
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