Adams Morgan Day Festival - Sunday September 11

AMPBID Annual Meeting and board elections - October 13

AMPBID Marketing Committee meeting - September 13

Reminder about Crafty Bastards deal-ie-o for AMPBID members

Romero Britto + Skynear Designs Gallery Opening - September 27

DC Water Shut Down - September 19th - midnight to 6 am - Columbia Road

Congratulations to Skyline Innovations, an Adams Morgan small business

Partnership with WHERE Magazine for AMPBID businesses

Adams Morgan Day Festival - Sunday September 11

AMPBID Annual Meeting and board elections - October 13

Should the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District's reauthorization be successful for another 5 Year Term, we will hold the Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 13th, 2010 at 5pm, at the Third District Police Headquarters, 1620 V Street, 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. The board members currently holding those positions have all indicated they will will be running for another term. Those are:

Property Owners:

Stephen Greenleigh

Pat Patrick

Jeffrey Schonberger

Business Owners:

Al Jirikowic

Justin Abad

Each person eligible for election as a member of the Board may also be nominated by a member petition submitted to the Chair of the Nominating Committee (Constantine Stavropoulos) or dropped off at the AMPBID office at 1802 Belmont Road, NW at least 30 days prior to the date of the meeting Tuesday September 13 ; 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 individual who received the signature of the witness(es) to the signatures that also lists the full name and address of the witness. 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 .

AMPBID Marketing Committee Meeting - Tuesday September 13

Reminder about Crafty Bastards Deal-ie-o for October 1

Just a quick reminder about the special partnership with Washington City Paper to drive more foot traffic into your business on Saturday, October 1, 2011. Please take advantage of all of these opportunities.

ALL ITEMS BELOW ARE FREE TO ADAMS MORGAN BUSINESSES (EXCEPT THE NEIGHBORHOOD STAMPEDE WHICH IS $150 (half price due to partnership with the BID).

Crafty Bastards, the annual arts and crafts fair on the campus of the Marie Reed School and Recreation Center is scheduled again for Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 10 am to 5 pm - rain or shine. This event brings 30 to 35,000 people into Adams Morgan for the day.

Through the sponsorship, the Adams Morgan Partnership BID will have a booth in the front entrance to the festival. At the booth we will pass out materials from all our businesses along with the FREE Pocket Guide maps. Please give Clarence Myers, our Safety Ambassador whatever cards, menus, flyers you would like us to distribute that day no later than September 28th.

In addition, we will pass out discount bracelets for any Adams Morgan business that wants to offer a special to shoppers on that day. This could be a percentage discount on all purchases that day or a free drink or a half price appetizer, whatever you would like to offer. Only people wearing the bracelet will be eligible for the special that day. Washington City Paper will place balloons outside each participating business to highlight your participation. They will also line 18th Street and Columbia Road with  additional balloons.

CRAFTY NEIGHBORHOOD STAMPEDE

You will get a square block - 3x3 color ad - in the Crafty Bastards Guide on the Neighborhood Stampede page. There are 10,000 copies distributed the day off and 75,000 copies distributed throughout the DC region. Participants will visit all the stores on the stampede page and get their guide stamped. Once the participants return with all the blocks stamped by each buisness, they are entered to win a $800 grand prize. To participate, each business contributes $150 per business, plus a $50 gift card that goes into the grand prize, and another 100 discount coupons or other give away item. The first 100 participants to complete the stampede get the FREE goody bag worth $25+ in swag and $100 in coupons - all of your items.

Crafty Neighborhood Stampede businesses also receive:

* Logo/address/website list on the entry form ad in the 9/28 issue of the Washington City Paper

* Stamp and pad exclusive to your business

* Production, printing and distribution of 100 special discount coupon offers

* Traffic into your business during the promotion and redemption of the 100 special coupon offers

Deadline for participants in the Neighborhood Stampede: TODAY but will be extended a few days into next week.

Please contact Terri Holtz at the City Paper about the Neighborhood Stampede at: tholtz@washcp.com or 202-650-6936 or with any other questions about the sponsorship: Kristen at the AMPBID at 202-997-0783 or kbarden@adamsmorganonline.org .

Ro mero Britto + Skynear Designs Gallery Opening - September 27

DC Water Shut Down - September 19th - midnight to 6 am - impacting businesses on Columbia Road

On Monday September 19th beginning at 11:59 pm through Tuesday September 20th at 6 am, DC Water has scheduled a water shut off.

Congratulations to Skyline Innovations, an Adams Morgan small business

Congratulations to the 2011 WDCEP Business Plan Competition Winner Skyline Innovations , located at 1752 Columbia Road, NW, Suite 2.

Skyline Innovations provides immediate, guaranteed energy savings to customers thorough solar water heating, energy efficient lighting and HVAC systems. Skyline finances, installs and maintains these clean energy systems without any customer capital outlay, achieving customer project payback from day one. Skyline Innovation’s strength is their unique business model that addresses unmet customer needs in a growing industry. Their proprietary operations platform delivers projects to small to midsized customers more cost effectively than large, established project developers.

The Washington, DC Economic Partnership’s Business Plan Competition is a program to promote entrepreneurship and the development of early stage companies in the District of Columbia. The goal of this initiative is to fund original business concepts that will lead to the continued development of new enterprise and further job creation within the District of Columbia.

The WDCEP Business Competition is the only program of its kind developed on behalf of the District of Columbia to support District-based entrepreneurs. The initiative, administered by the Washington, DC Economic Partnership, is funded by participants in the District of Columbia CAPCO Program and private sector companies and is held in collaboration with the DC Coalition for Capital. The Washington D.C. Business Plan Competition is open to existing and start up, DC headquartered businesses.

This is the 3rd year that the WDCEP is partnering with participants of the DC CAPCO Program to put together the competition. Past winners were Affinity Lab in 2009 and EnviRelation, LLC in 2010.

Partnership with WHERE Magazine for AMPBID businesses

AMPBID has partnered with WHERE Magazine to expand our message to the visitor market.  Each year 15.1 million visitors pass through the District of Columbia spending over $1.3 billion on food and beverage and $623 million on shopping.

We will be pushing our message through a neighborhood page we are running in WHERE Magazine's annual DC Guestbook.  This coffee table book has a year shelf life and sits in over 25,000 4-5 star hotel rooms across the district including Marriot Wardman park, Hilton Washington, Omni Shoreham and the Kimpton Group Hotels.

There are currently two spots left each at $3200 ($320 monthly installments/10 months can be made.)  Deadline for space is less than 3 weeks away.

Please contact Andrew Minarik at 202-463-4550 or andrew.minarik@wheremagazine.com for more information regarding this opportunity to promote our exciting and diverse neighborhood.