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MDD members question value of Retail Strategies contract; staff urges continued use while auditing benefits
Summary
Board members criticized the existing Retail Strategies contract as low-value and asked staff to press the vendor for more in-person engagement; staff and several members said it is premature to cancel an already-paid second-year contract and recommended assessing results before the third-year payment.
The Argyle Municipal Development District reviewed its contract with Retail Strategies and compared alternative market-recruitment proposals from The Retail Coach and Buxton. Harrison presented the contracts and explained that because the district has paid for the second year of the three-year Retail Strategies contract, cancelling now would forfeit the remaining prepaid months: "their contract is pretty clear that if we were to end the contract with them...the money that we've already paid them, they would keep as earned," Harrison said.
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