1-13-2011 General Meeting Notes

One of the things we hope to do this year is better publicize what we talk about in our various meetings. We’ve got a lot of tasks ahead of us and we hope this would make it easer to keep everyone up to speed on how we are progressing!! Let us know what you think in the comments!

Meeting Notes for 1-13-2011

Meeting was held at Downtown Topeka, Inc.  Brendan Jensen gave a report as to how leveraging PHProjekt might be able to help keep us organised as we diversify our group and start addressing many of the other points on our “buckshot” list. One of the major concerns with using a tool like this is that it’s not designed to make everything contained within it public. One of the goals of the Capital District Project is to be open and forthcoming about the topics and ideas we discuss. So we’re working on a plan to extract information from the project management software and load it out to the website on a regular bases to address this.

Michelle De La Isla talked about business recruitment  for downtown and has done a lot of work to lay the groundwork for a team to start working on this important step to a vibrant downtown. A future meeting is planned to invite other members of the community interested in helping with this project (keep an eye on our Facebook Page). The main points this team will try to address are:

• 1. Policy – what sort of polices need to be changed or put in place to make it easer for business to prosper
• 2. Economic Development – What needs to be done to encourage business to want to be downtown?
• 3. Space & Availability – What out there and ready to go, what needs work, and the like.
• 4. Business Research – Discover what works, what doesn’t in other places. How can we use these lessons to make downtown a huge success

Next General Meeting we will start talking about housing!