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Winnsboro Main Street board seeks volunteers and revives merchant phone tree idea
Summary
Board members proposed recruiting volunteers for committees and reinstating a merchant phone tree to improve event outreach and merchant communication; the director will compile contacts and the proposal will return to the next meeting for assignment.
Board members discussed boosting volunteer capacity and revisited a past practice of assigning blocks of merchants to board members as a phone tree. The phone tree would give merchants a single local contact for event notices and city information and help the board reach proprietors who do not regularly read city emails.
The chair and Carolyn said the idea would re-establish a direct connection between the board and merchants: each volunteer would be responsible for a small group of businesses and would share updates about events such as the Fourth of July parade. The director said she would collect contact information and follow up so the board can assign blocks at a future meeting.
Members also discussed recruiting students and community volunteers who need service hours to help staff events. The board identified the phone tree as a topic for the next agenda and asked committee chairs to start compiling lists of merchants for assignment.
