So, businesses in the BID automatically become ODA members: “Businesses paying the cost would automatically become members of the ODA.”
“At press time, the Olympia Downtown Association board of directors was working to gather the needed petition signatures by the end of July, with the hope of going to the Council sometime in August.”
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MRSC’s page on parking and business improvement areas
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Partially answering Ryan’s question about patrols:
“Fully staff the downtown Walking Patrol year round. Currently there are four positions designated to the Walking Patrol.”
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Oly CC’s “goal” document that includes the parking garage “if feasible”
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In May 05, the proposal was supposed to have gone out:
“The building block of our BIB is the proposal. Will go out of all 570 businesses within the next 2 weeks.”
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There’s nothing on the ODA website, that I can find about anything at all. It’s pretty useless. Not very proud of it, perhaps? Or, something else? (And, as I write this it also has broken links.)
The DNA website is equally bare, it turns out.