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The Review December 15, 2015 DIXON | AGENCY CONSOLIDATION
It’s coming together as One BY JERMAINE PIGEE DIXON – Before the city’s event-planning agencies can get on the same page, someone has to write the book on how to do it. Enter an advisory task force. Its task: help make Dixon One a reality. Dixon One is a group the city is creating to consolidate Main Street, the Riverfront Commission and Dixon Tourism. But in order to turn three groups – each with its own interests and goals – into one, the city will need a little help sorting everything out. That will be the job of the task force. But before the task force can come together, someone has to come up with a roll call. That’ll be Mayor Li Arellano Jr.’s job. He’ll pick members he’d like to see on the nineperson task force, which will include representatives from the three groups that will be consolidated, along with members of the City Council and the public. Their job will be to sort out what Dixon One could ultimately look like and make recommendations to the council. After Arellano makes his picks, the council will vote on them. After that, members of the task force can get to work. Members will appoint a chairman and the group will hold regular meetings. And they’ll have their work cut out for them. The city’s goal is for the task force to get its job done in 6 months, after which time the group will
be dissolved. Providing, of course, it’s completed its task. If the group needs more time after 6 months, it can request it from the council. Since taking office in May, council members have cited the need for multiple city event-planning agencies to get on the same page, and coordinate their efforts. During a November meeting, Councilman Mitch Tucker said Dixon One was progressing slowly, and he wanted it to “get moving.” The task force should help Dixon One do just that. “With the advisory committee, you have all these groups at the table and you can have discussions on different ideas and how to best implement them,” Arellano said. “With this group, you can get realtime discussion.” Arellano said the hope is that the council can approve task force members at its Dec. 21 meeting. He said he’s looking for people who have been directly involved in the various aspects of marketing for the city. “This way, we can get the ball rolling faster,” he said. “We want them to go through ideas such as marketing, shared secretaries, how to do space sharing and how they can coordinate to better promote Dixon’s festivals. We want them to have the first say in how it affects them and what works for them.” Once the task force has done its job, Dixon One can get to work – and when it does, it will have its own
space in which to do it. In November, the council voted to buy the Kenzley Title building at 87 S. Hennepin Ave. for $245,000. The building will be vacated next month when the title company moves to 224 W. River St. At that time, city officials will take over the building. Once Dixon One has a plan in hand, then it can really get moving – and true to its word, the city will have the three groups that form Dixon One under one roof, figuratively and literally. If the group needs more time after 6 months, it can request it from the council. Since taking office in May, council members have cited the need for multiple city event-planning agencies to get on the same page, and coordinate their efforts. During a November meeting, Councilman Mitch Tucker said Dixon One was progressing slowly, and he wanted it to “get moving.” The task force should help Dixon One do just that. “With the advisory committee, you have all these groups at the table and you can have discussions on different ideas and how to best implement them,” Arellano said. “With this group, you can get realtime discussion.” Arellano said the hope is that the council can approve task force members at its Dec. 21 meeting. He said he’s looking for people who have been directly involved in the various aspects of marketing for the city.
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