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York City unveils events team, plans return of Mother's Day street fair and $100,000 campaign
Summary
The mayor introduced a new events team working with the Artist Foundation to relaunch annual events in York City, starting with a Mother's Day street fair. The city is seeking about $100,000 in donations and volunteers to run events for the year.
York City’s mayor introduced a newly selected events team at the March 4 City Council meeting and said the city will bring back its Mother's Day street fair on May 11, 2025, as the first planned event of the year.
The mayor said the city put the work out to bid and selected the Artist Foundation, with team members Alfonso Todd and Talisha Smith, to coordinate promotion and community outreach. “Our main thing is that we're not trying to reinvent the wheel or anything. We just want to really organize and enhance what you all already have,” Alfonso Todd said.
The nut of the plan is to revive locally run events with spaces offered to York City organizations, businesses or residents for $50. The mayor said York County-based organizations will be charged $100 and groups from outside York County will pay $250 to secure space. City officials said the Mother’s Day street fair has not been held since February 2019.
Talisha Smith, who identified herself as the team's community-relations lead, said the group will use social media, meet-and-greets and outreach to make events beneficial for both businesses and residents. “We do actually want you to buy things from the businesses. So it's a benefit for the businesses and also the community,” Smith said.
Ralph Washington, who also introduced himself at the meeting and who said he has run New Year’s events and worked on youth development in York, said he will serve as a local partner and help connect the team with local vendors and vendors for sound production.
The mayor said the city needs roughly $100,000 to run events for the year and that the team has already received offers of donations. Officials said they will also recruit volunteers and interns, including students from York High School, to help run events and to build local production capacity.
City staff said food vendors must still comply with applicable health inspections. The mayor invited interested parties to contact the city for participation and table reservations.
The presentation was informational; no council vote was taken on the events campaign at the March 4 meeting.
