9-4-15 News You Can Use from the Adams Morgan Partnership BID!

Neighborhood News

1) SAVE THE DATES: September 8th Monthly AMPBID Board meeting and October 13th Annual Meeting and board elections

The next Adams Morgan Partnership BID (AMPBID) Board of Directors' meeting will be Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 at 5 PM at the Festival Center at 1640 Columbia Road, NW. Hope you can join us! An agenda will be sent out to board members today.

Board members: Please call or email Kristen at 202-997-0783 or kbarden@adamsmorganonline.org if you are unable to attend otherwise we will assume you are attending. Thanks.

Annual Meeting - October 13

The Annual Meeting of the AMPBID will be Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 5pm, at the Festival Center at 1640 Columbia Road, NW. Postcards were mailed to all property owners and business owners last week.

AMPBID Annual Meeting Election Process

At the October 13th Annual Meeting, BID members will have the opportunity to vote for candidates for 5 board slots: three property owners and two business owners. Four board members currently holding those positions have been renominated for another term and have agreed to serve if elected.

Those are:

* Jessica White, property owner

* Matt Wexler, property owner

* Louis Courembis, property owner

* Constantine Stavropoulos, business owner

One business owner, Joanna Robinson, is leaving the board at the end of the term and Justin Abad, from Cashion's and Pop's Sea Bar, has expressed interest in running for her seat.

AMPBID Annual Meeting Election Process

Each person eligible for election as a member of the Board may be nominated by: 1) the nominating committee, or 2) by a member petition submitted to the Chair of the Nominating Committee (Steve Greenleigh) at least 30 days prior to the date of the meeting (so additional nominations must be received by September 13th); provided that only business owners can nominate business owners and property owners can only nominate property owners and a petition shall require the signature of no less than ten (10) members to nominate a member of the Board. Each nominee either shall be present at the annual meeting or shall consent to such nomination by a written document.

Voting

Per the by-laws, any properties for which BID taxes are over 60 days delinquent, may not vote nor may they nominate members to the board.

For each class of member, the ballot will list all the candidate names, and members will vote for the number of open slots in that category. For example, there are two business owner slots. All members will have the opportunity to vote for two candidates from the list of all business owner candidates.

Proxies

Proxy votes are allowed.

Pursuant to the BID bylaws, those interested in voting in the board elections by proxy can either contact the BID to request a proxy form, or can develop their own form, as long as it includes: the date of the meeting at which it is applicable (October 13) full names, addresses and the dated signatures of both the individual issuing the proxy and the witness(es) to the signature. The proxy voter can be anyone to whom the property or business owner designates to vote for them and DOES NOT have to be a member of the Adams Morgan Partnership BID. All proxy forms must meet all these criteria to be accepted.

The BID will have a proxy form available by fax, mail and by email.

Any questions on this process, please call Kristen at the BID office 202-997-0783 or email her at: Kbarden@adamsmorganonline.org .

2) Reminder: Please post events on the BID website

As you know we launched a new website a few months ago. It is really important that all Adams Morgan businesses post their events and special sales or other things happening on the website. The form is short and should take a couple of minutes to complete! The website will only be as useful as the information you post on there! THIS IS ONLY FOR ADAMS MORGAN EVENTS! Thanks!

http://www.adamsmorganonline.org/whats-going-on/

3) Adams Morgan Day Festival - September 13 noon to 6 pm

CALLING ALL BUSINESSES - PARTICIPATE IN ADAMS MORGAN DAY on

September 13th!

Are you a business interested in participating in this year's grassroots

Adams Morgan Day? Please check out the new website

http://www.adamsmorganday2015.com/ for more information. The sooner

you share your plans for events, music, artists or deals, the sooner we are

able to promote them.

Please contact A.Tianna ascozzaro@gmail.com for more information.

Thanks!

Website: http://adamsmorganday2015.com/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/adamsmorganday

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1483173948660668/

IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE TIME, Here's how you can help:

1. Join the meeting on Tuesday (9/8) at Grand Central starting at 6 p.m.

It's not too late to get involved.

2. Let them know about your special plans for the day by filling out this

Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14bgwDL_6kARG1

EuPh_E3741IfdimpUv4CKOeesVqk4I/edit#gid=0

If you want to participate, but need help planning an event, please be in

touch. There are volunteers who can help.

3. Tweet about it: Twitter: @AdamsMorganDay #AdMoDay2015

4. Post messages on your social media to help raise funds through t-shirt

sales and donations. Remember to mention that as our fiscal sponsor,

Mary's Center will receive a portion of the funds:

T-Shirt Page: https://maryscenter.givezooks.com/events/adams-

morgan-day

Donation Page: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/AdamsMorgan

Day

They still need money to produce promotional materials: banners, posters,

and balloons. Please ask your vendors if they would like to be a sponsor!

5. Reach out to your neighboring businesses to join in. Take a look at the

Google doc. If you don't see your neighbors listed, go talk to them! The

more businesses that participate, the better the day will be for all of us.

4) Great Streets Grants - DEADLINE EXTENDED!

DMPED announced its 2016 Great Streets Retail Small Business Reimbursement Grant Notice in the July 24th DC Register.

This year eligible businesses may apply for up to $50,000. Adams Morgan is included in this year's eligible corridors thanks to legislation that we asked CM Graham to introduce in March 2014 and which CM Nadeau helped complete earlier this year.

Check www.greatstreets.dc.gov where you can find:

· Instructions including eligibility requirements and eligible uses of grant funds (RFA or Request for Application)

· Link to online application ; and

· Updates about Informational Session meetings .

Please be advised that the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) has issued a technical amendment to the Request for Applications (RFA) for the FY2016 Great Streets Retail Small Business Reimbursement Grants. The technical amendment is available online on the Great Streets website . Please note that, among other changes, the grant application deadline has been extended to FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2nd, 2015 at 4pm .

Polina Bakhteiarov | Great Streets Manager

Government of the District of Columbia

Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning & Economic Development

1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 317 | Washington, DC 20004

W 202.741.8952 | F 202.727.6703 | C 202.615.6625 | polina.bakhteiarov@dc.gov

5) Adams Morgan Porch Fest is October 3, 2015

Calling All Musicians!

We’re on our third year of Adams Morgan PorchFest — a celebration of the deep musical talent that exists in the DC metro area. Last year 40+ musicians/bands participated including members of the National Symphony Orchestra. We transformed the front porches, patios and stoops of our homes and businesses into “stages for a day” where local talent could be heard by all for free. It was a ton of fun, thanks to many of you, with dozens of local music acts playing about at a dozen locations in Adams Morgan. Neighbors gathered, kids danced, and the streets came alive thanks to the generosity of musicians sharing their art.

We’re doing it again Saturday October 3rd from 3pm-7pm. But we can’t do it without the singers, stand up bass players, horn blowers, guitar heroes, indie rockers, violin virtuosos, and all the other talented folks who believe in bringing music out of clubs and into the light of day. From famous jazz legends like Charlie Byrd and Keter Betts to homegrown soul acts like Father’s Children, Adams Morgan has a rich music tradition that PorchFest hopes to continue with your help.

Here’s how it works:

We ask each participating group or individual to play a set or two on Saturday, October 3rd between 3-7 pm. We’ll match you with a host and a time slot, put your name and a brief description of your music (that you provide) on maps we’ll hand out that day and feed you pizza at the after party that night. We’ll work with local media to get coverage — in the past one of the local television affiliates broadcast one of our bands live — so while it’s not a paid gig at this point, it can be great exposure. Acts are encouraged to sell their music, t-shirts etc. if they’d like, but the best way to think of this is as a community service/volunteer type of activity aimed at music appreciation.

If you or musicians you know are interested in participating, please use the contact information below. Even if you can’t play, please spread the word about Adams Morgan PorchFest. We’d like to grow this bigger and better each year.

Thanks!

Nathan Ackerman and Kristen Barden

202 669 2323

nathan@18thstreetmedia.com

kbarden@adamsmorganonline.org

https://www.facebook.com/adamsmorganporchfest?ref=tn_tnmn

Economic Intelligence Roundtable meeting - September 18th

On behalf of Mr. Harry Wingo and the DC Chamber of Commerce, thank you for your interest in developing economic intelligence tools for the District.

This past Spring, in partnership with the District of Columbia’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, we convened the first of several Economic Intelligence Round tables.

From that convening we identified key metrics and next steps to further develop the open dialogue between the private sector, community partners, researchers, and government officials to analyzing data in the context for economic development policy.

We would like to cordially invite you to the next Economic Intelligence Round table scheduled for Friday, September 18, 2015 at 9:00am (Breakfast & Registration will begin at 8:30am).

This round-table will convene our stakeholder groups to focus specifically on DC business industry data. We will discuss data needs and methods by which we can easily collect, track, and display economic data that is meaningful for the business community and stakeholders interested in DC business activity.

As we move through this Economic Intelligence effort, we understand that collectively we should prompt a discussion on the distinct definitions of businesses, startups, small businesses, etc… The September Economic Intelligence Round-table also aims to facilitate dialogue on how businesses can benefit from and contribute to data gathering and data analysis efforts.

We want the day to be both enlightening and encompassing of all sectors and encourage participants from the public and private sector to attend and assist with the economic intelligence efforts as it relates to business industry needs. For additional details go to www.economicintelligence.org for a recap of the Spring Economic Intelligence Round-table and to register for the September 18th round-table.

Erika Wadlington

Director of Government Relations

DC Chamber of Commerce

506 9th Street NW | Washington, DC 20004

(202) 624-0613 (direct office line)

(202) 258-7668 (cell phone)