Business Improvement District

Agenda Gallup BID Board meeting, December 21, 2017, 3 PM, Rico Motors Call to order Acceptance of Minutes of November 16, 2017 BID Board meeting Acceptance of monthly financial report Voting items: Funding to Gallup ARTS for monthly Arts Crawl events during calendar year 2018. Gallup ARTS requested $ 23,475. Continue Sign Grant program through FY18 Q3 to accommodate signs that are in the pipeline. Add funds to pay for extension of program. Change language describing the BID’s Sign Grant Program and Façade Improvement Program. Lien on Sullenger property (formerly Doty): discuss memo from City Attorney and vote on next step in this process. Reports: November 17: L. Bonaguidi, F. Bee met with City Attorney Curtis Hayes to discuss the situation of the lien that was placed on property owned by Mr. Doty, then passed along to Mr. Sullenger when he bought said property from Doty. November 17 - met with real estate property developer in Gallup. Next steps: developer must assemble financing and project team to move forward with project(s). Met with Sammy Chioda to discuss monthly DownTown Night Out restaurant program. Sammy requested that BID provide funds for a banner to be placed above Aztec Avenue during periods when there is no major event. Banner will promote both monthly events: Arts Crawl & DTNO. November 20 GEDA meeting. Meeting with Rep. Lundstrum to educate/advocate for 1. NM Main Street Capital Outlay funding and 2. support for HB 205, “The Vacant Rural Building Act”, which addresses building code variances in renovating older historic buildings. November 21 - Coal Avenue Event Street project team meeting to review timeline for starting the project Buxton Company analytics - November 29 meeting between management from Buxton and local Gallup organizations to discuss methods for using Buxton product and services. Buxton sent a proposal to us the following day. Local team will meet again December 29 to discuss: 1.specifics of the proposal, 2. local cost sharing, and 3. The type of agreements needed between City of Gallup and participating organizations for this specific application. November 29 - Pop-up meeting: L. Bonaguidi, F. Bee with Eduardo Martinez, NMMS. December 1 – met in Gallup with consultant Chris Cordova, Southwest Planning & Marketing to discuss data gathered by SWPM during the Rt 66 Gallup Freedom Ride Flight Cruise festival. December 12 - BID Executive Committee met to review: Gallup Arts funding request; DTNO banner; downtown 2018 summer season security costs; sign grant program parameters, timelines and budget; timing of $25,000 funding to City of Gallup in support of Coal Avenue Event Street Planning Project. December 12 - L. Bonaguidi, F. Bee met with BID CPA Tony Gonzalez to review potential merits for BID of IRS 170 tax credit program described in November BID Board meeting by Gallup real estate broker J. Valentine. Art Crawl report. Downtown Night Out report Beautification of RT 66/NM118 pedestrian improvement area. Date of next BID Board meeting Motion to adjourn