August 2018 Franklin TDA Meeting

The Franklin TDA (Tourism Development Authority) will be meeting this afternoon at 5:30 pm in the lower level of the Franklin Townhall. The public agenda and agenda packet is posted below in an effort to promote transparency and accountability. Video will be added to this article after the meeting.

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MEDIA ROLL CALL
(media outlets with representatives present for the meeting)

Macon Media
The Franklin Press



Town of Franklin Tourism Development Authority
Agenda
August 13, 2018
5:30 pm
1.) Call to Order- Chair Connie Gruberman
2.) Approval of the July 9, 2018 minutes
3.) Financial Reports- Summer Woodard
4.) Sub-Committee Reports

A.) Finance/Budget Chair Report- Connie Grubermann
B.) Policy and Rules of Procedure Chair Report- Cheryl Pullium
C.) Application Review Chair Report- Travis Tallent

5.) Old Business:
A.) Funding Request for the Naturalist 25/50K for $1,800

6.) New Business:
A.) Discussion on TDA Board Applications

7.) items from the Board

8.) Announcements- The next regularly scheduled TDA meeting is Monday September 10, 2018 at 5:30 pm. in the Town Hall Boardroom

9.) Adjourn


AGENDA PACKET

Franklin TDA August 2013 Agenda by Bobby Coggins on Scribd

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Agenda for the May 2018 Meeting of the Franklin TDA

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority will be meeting at 5:30 pm later today for their regular monthly meeting. A copy of the public agenda and the agenda packet has been published below to promote transparency and accountability in local government. A video of the meeting will be added later.


Public Agenda


Town of Franklin Tourism Development Authority
Agenda
May 14, 2018
5:30 pm
1. Call to Order - Chari Candy Presley
2. Approval of the April 9, 2018 minutes
3. Financial reports -Summer Woodard

4. Sub-Committee Reports
A. Finance/Budget Chair Report -Connie Grubermann
B. Policy and Rules of Procedure Char Report -
C. Application Review Chair Report -Summer Woodard

5. Old Business
A. Update on $5,000 Request for Budget Increase -Summer Woodard
B. Funding Request for Appalachian Heritage Festival for $3,000 - Char Candy Presley
C. Funding Request for Taste of Scotland for $4,500 _Lloyd Swift and George James
D. Update on Discover Franklin Domain

6. New Business
A. Discussion on TDA Budget for FY 18-19 -Summer Woodard

7. Items from the Board

8. Announcements -The next regularly scheduled TDA meeting is Monday, June 11, 2018 at 5:30 pm in the Town Hall Boardroom

9. Adjourn

Agenda Packet

TDA

Agenda 05-14-2018 by Bobby Coggins on Scribd

DAY SPONSOR

Carrion Tree Service is underwriting the daily weather briefing and public safety updates for today. they are a fully licensed and insured tree service,

specializing in dangerous tree removal, view clearing, pruning, and crane services with a 24 Hour emergency response.

Their phone number is 371-4718. They are located at 120 Depot Street.

They can handle all your tree removal needs in good or bad weather.

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Author: Bobby Coggins

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Franklin TDA - Feb 2016 Meeting

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority met today, February 8, 2016 in the lower level of town hall. The video and agenda packet that is share with members of the press are posted below. The next meeting will be on Monday, March 14, 2016.


MEDIA ROLL CALL
(Members of the local media present at the meeting)

Macon Media (me)
Macon County News and Shopping Guide
The Franklin Press

Feb 2016 Franklin TDA Agenda Packet

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Franklin Tourism Development Authority Regular January 2016 Meeting

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority met late yesterday afternoon in the lower level of the Franklin town hall for their regular January 2016 meeting. the board heard from the Financial Subcommittee and the Franklin Appalachian Trail Community Committee and voted to decline an advertising opportunity with Allison Outdoor Advertising. The video, public agenda and the agenda that is shared with the local media outlets are posted below. The next meeting is scheduled for February 8th at 5:30 pm at the same location and time.



MEDIA ROLL CALL
(members of the media that are physically present)

Macon Media (me)
Macon County News and Shopping Guide
The Franklin Press

VIDEO (now includes a table of contents for easier internal navigation)




PUBLIC AGENDA

PRESS PACKET

Franklin TDA Jan 2016 Press Packet

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Franklin Wins Contest in Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine Voted Top Town in the Small Town Category

Franklin has won a contest in the small town category run by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine. The contest consisted of people rallying others via social media to vote in the contest. People were allowed multiple votes from multiple machines in a day. The contest webpage. 

Winners by category:

Small Town: Franklin, NC

Medium town: Roanoke, VA

Large town: Knoxville, TN

The article featuring Franklin can be seen on Blue Ridge Outdoors.

The Mayor and several local politicians have gathered at the Gazebo in downtown Franklin to celebrate the official announcement. The exclusive full video of the event announcement is embedded below.




Background 

A representative of the magazine visited the Franklin TDA September 2015 meeting to share details of the contest along with several business owners and a reporter who had widely shared the contest on social media. The representative sought $2,000 from the tourism authority to subsidize advertising by Franklin businesses in the article that would accompany the announcement of the winners in the small, medium and large town categories. The board decided to authorize subsidizing the advertisements up to $3,000. 

Due to a quorum not being present when the board voted to approve the funds a re-vote took place in the October meeting, when, in order to achieve a quorum in that meeting, board member Connie Gruberman participated in the meeting via telephone while she was out of town. I was unable to attend the October meeting because I was recording the candidate forum at The Lazy Hiker that evening.

Video of the September meeting is embedded below.







MEDIA ROLL CALL (media outlets with reporters/photographers present)

Macon Media (me)
The Franklin Press
WNCC-FM/WFSC-AM
The Macon County News and Shopping Guide


PHOTO SLIDESHOW





See photos on Flickr.


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Franklin TDA June 2015 Meeting and Board "Retreat"

Update: The video has been added.



Meeting in Brief

Matt Bateman resigned from the board, PRiemiere Marketing made their annual budget presentation to the board. Doug Morton of The Taste of Scotland Festival spoke to the board, wanting additional funds. He said an article in a local paper stating the festival had made a profit of $1,000 last year had cost them donations this year. After a lengthy conversation with Morton, the board denied the festival additional funds.

David Linn spoke to the board regarding a 5K to raise funds for the Shriners Hospital in Greenville, SC. He will be back at a later meeting with an updated budget to present to the board.

The remaining 5 members of the board approved the budget prepared and presented by PRiemerewith the addition of $3,500. $3,000 to pay for an audit and $500 to pay for the Finance Officer's bond. The total 2015-2016 budget is $113,700. For reference, the 2014-2015 budget was $118,400. 

2015-2016 Franklin TDA Budget

BUDGET LINE ITEM	AMOUNT
Festivals/Miscellaneous	$30,000
Pandora (Mobile Audio/Advertising)	$20,000
Trip Advisor (2 runs @ $10,000 ea/Advertising)	$20,000
Asheville Citizen	$26,500
Facebook	$30,000
Google Ad Words	$10,000
PRemiere Marketing Services	$3,700
A/V Media	$0
Photography	$0
Internal Audit/Finance Officer Bond	$3,500
TOTAL	$113,700

The board will meet again on July 13th at 5:30 pm in the lower level of the Franklin Town Hall.

MEDIA ROLL CALL (Media outlets with reporters present)

Macon Media (me)

Macon County News and Shopping Guide

The Franklin Press

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority will be having the June 2015 meeting today at 5:30 pm in the lower level of the town hall. The meeting will also serve as the annual "retreat" for the board. The public agenda and the press packet have been posted below and the video will be added sometime after the meeting.

Franklin TDA Press Packet for June 2015

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Franklin TDA 01-13-2013

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority met last night in the town hall and heard a presentation from Jessica Mason of PRemiere Marketing and Justin Belleme of J&B Media regarding the social media advertising campaign and website maintenance of the Franklin TDA website.

I posted a play by play of the meeting on the Macon Media Facebook page and you can see a video of the entire meeting below:




MEDIA ROLL CALL

Macon Media (me)

Macon County News

If you read about this meeting anywhere else, please note that media outlet has either asked a member of the board what happened or relied on the coverage that me or the reporter from the Macon County News provided.


Here is the press kit and agenda for the meeting that was distributed to members of the board and the media:

Franklin TDA January 2014 Press Kit by Thunder Pig

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Franklin TDA 10-14-2013

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority Board met late yesterday afternoon for their regularly scheduled October meeting, and the video of the full meeting is below, as well as a downloadable copy of the press kit that was sent to members of the media.





MEDIA ROLL CALL

Macon Media (me)
Macon County News and Shopping Guide
The Franklin Press


PRESS KIT

Franklin TDA 10-14-2013 by Thunder Pig

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Franklin TDA 09-16-2013

Here is the video of last night's meeting of the Franklin Tourism Development Authority. I did a nearly live play by on Google Plus and have embedded the press kit below for your convenience.

Franklin TDA Press Kit by Thunder Pig

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Agenda and Press Kit for the August 2013 Franklin TDA Meeting Updated with Video

**update-August 13th** Here is gavel to gavel coverage of the meeting.

You may read my play by play on Google Plus or below the video:


Here is the play play:

Macon Media

Yesterday 4:38 PM

Edit

 

Ground Rules for Participation

I'll be posting the nearly live play by play of what happens at this meeting from 5:30pm onward tonight. If you are at the meeting or just wanna chime in, feel free to do so.

Just leave the personal attacks on the Board Members or Town Staff at the door. This is not Facebook or Twitter and I expect a higher standard of behavior on Google Plus. 

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:12 PM

 

I'm in the town hall now, getting ready for the meeting to start.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:20 PM

 

I left the cord for my laptop in the office, so this play by play won't last long...perhaps another 20-30 minutes.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:31 PM

 

The board is currently one member short of a quorum.

Currently, Chair Candy Presley, Summer Woodard, Mike Gruberman and Josh Drake are present. The board attorney, John Henning, Jr is also here.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:33 PM

 

MEDIA ROLL CALL

Macon Media (me)
Macon County News

others
Barbara McRae (candidate for Town Alderman)
Danny Bates (Franklin Police for security)

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:33 PM

 

Board Member Vickie Springer just arrived.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:34 PM

 

The meeting has been called to order.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:35 PM

 

Summer Woodard is giving the FInancial Report. I don't have a copy, so I can't report the numbers.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:42 PM

 

SUmmer Woodard has delivered a request from Linda Schlote (who is out of town) for $1,500 for the Pumpkinfest. They asked for $2,000 last year and hope to generate revenue by not allowing vendors to sell sodas, which the Main Street Program will be the sole provider of.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:42 PM

 

The board will decide on this request at the September meeting.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:47 PM

 

Summer Woodard is discussing the bids for hosting the Franklin TDA website. Only one vendor agreed to bid. She says two other website providers declined to bid.

The only bidder was SiteDart Hosting, a local company owned by Drake Enterprises. URL: http://sitedart.net/

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:48 PM

 

Josh Drake still says he doesn't understand why they should have more than one website for the TDA. 

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:48 PM

 

SiteDart has been chosen as the host for the TDA website by unanimous vote.

Macon Media

Yesterday 5:51 PM

 

Summer Woodard is discussing the recommendations of the marketing firm (Premiere Marketing...another Drake Enterprises company) hired by the TDA. regarding the website, including adding the ability to blog, Facebook Advertising and Google Adwors.

Macon Media

Yesterday 7:00 PM

 

My laptop battery died right after the last comment. The meeting did not last much longer than that.

The only significant item (in my opinion) that occurred after that was a successful push by Josh Drake to get the board to get rid of the $100,000 Reserve Fund and cap it at 25% of the annual budget.

If I recall correctly, Matt Bateman tried to get the board to come off the $100,000 reserve before, but was rebuffed.

Anyhow, I am now home and will process the video and upload it sometime tomorrow morning.

Goodnight.

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority will be meeting Monday evening at 5:30PM in the Town Hall. I have posted the agenda and press kit below so that the general public may know what is on the agenda for the meeting before it happens, not after. You may watch video of the previous meeting of this board by following this link.

(The following agenda has been copied verbatim from the PDF provided in the press kit)

TOWN OF FRANKLIN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

AGENDA

MONDAY AUGUST 12, 2013

5:30PM TOWN HALL BOARD ROOM

1...Call to order - Chair Candy Presley

2...Approval of the July 8, 2013 minutes

3...Financial Report - Summer Woodard

4...Sub-Comnittee Reports
A...Finace/Budget Chair Report - Miker Gruberman
C...Policy and Rules of Procedure Chair report - Vickie Springer
D...Application Review Chair report - Summer Woodard

5...New business
A...Funding request for Pumkin Fest for $1,500.00
B...Update on website hosting for TDA websites - Summer Woodard
C...Update on Facebook and Google Adwords - Summer Woodard
D...Update on Electronic Billboard Campaign - Summer Woodard
E...Update on Tourism Development Commission meeting - Summer Woodard

7...Items from the board

8...Announcements - The next regularly scheduled TDA meeting is Monday September 16, 2013 at 5:30PM in the Town Hall Board room.

9...Adjourn



This press kit was provided to Macon Media by the Franklin TDA as a member of the local press. In the interest of transparency and to promote accountability, this document is shared with the general public below before the meeting takes place:

Press Kit Franklin TDA 08-12-2013 Meeting

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