CHOCVB Board Meeting Minutes 111721

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DocuSign Envelope ID:79E7E065-C620-41EB-8AD8-976C333559A7 plan our calendar for next fall, we may start a little earlier or end a bit later so we can build in that time that people have asked for to take some mental health breaks. We will share that with you as soon as it is available. • Mayor Pro Tern Mark Bell &Shannan Campbell, Economic Development—Town of Hillsborough - Hillsborough is proceeding with our Holiday Parade and December 5th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. - There is the annual gingerbread house competition going on as well. - The Holiday Home Tour is not happening this year. - All of our downtown merchants and vendors are fixing up their shops and inviting people in. Some of them have extended hours during the holidays. - The Lantern Walk is on the Winter Solstice on December 215t starting at 5:30 p.m. This draws one or two thousand people from around the area. It is really spectacular. - The Last Fridays Art Walk is going on through November as well. - We are doing a big push for "Shop Small" on Saturday after Thanksgiving and we are hoping for good turnout for that. - From our tourism marketing standpoint,we are leading with "Share the Glow" and encouraging businesses to put up warm night lights and keep them up through January and in to early February while it is dark and gloomy outside. - The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough is trying to put together the annual wreath stroll this year. So we have both the gingerbread and wreath shop on stroll that hopefully makes everything decorative and inviting. There are about 18 locations for the gingerbread houses and last year we had about 12 wreaths. - Our revenues continue to be strong. Not as strong as in pre-COVID years but people are still coming out and shopping and dining with us. A lot of that might have to do with the abundance of outdoor seating we still have and the weather has been cooperating. Many of our restaurants are already ready for the colder weather with heaters already having been checked out by the fire marshal. We are better prepared this winter than last. • Beverly Payne—Alliance for Historic Hillsborough - The Orange County Historical Museum's "Date Night" exhibit is still going on and will continue until the end of the year. In February we start a new exhibit called "Show Flavor" which will display the various china, crockery, earthenware, pottery, silverware,glass, cast iron, etc. We have five or six artists who will be preparing the exhibit and installations to showcase these dinner wares. - The Occaneechi Tribe is having village workdays at the Occaneechi Village Replica Site December 4th and 111h from 9:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. depending on the weather. If you would like to help with a village workday and want to confirm it is still on, contact Sarah Sandbeck, Executive Director,The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough. Vickie Jeffries,the Occaneechi Tribal administrator, does demonstrations on tea making, herbs, oils,things that you can make naturally. • Katie Murray—Program Coordinator, Orange County Arts Commission - The Orange County Arts Commission has opened a new space in Hillsborough,The Eno Mill. Combined with the first group of studios we opened last year,we now have 10,000 square feet. We have 15 artist studios,Art Therapy Institute has opened an office in our space, we have a gallery and we have a big classroom, and we have the office. We had our grand opening on October 1"and our second opening the first Friday of November. We had about 300 people in October and a couple hundred in November. We are doing timed entry to keep the crowd spaced out. I invite anyone who would like to see up and I will give you a tour and show you the space. We have started classes and are looking for additional teachers. 6 1 P a g e CHOCVB BOD Meeting November 17 , 2021