By Clarence Cromwell
The drive to attract customers and businesses to Saratoga will take top billing at the city's Jan. 13 Town Hall meeting.
Dave Kilbourne, the city's newly hired business-improvement consultant, plans to speak for about 90 minutes at the meeting.
Kilbourne said he'll narrate a slide show, giving examples of other cities' business development plans. Then he'll conduct an opinion survey of interested citizens and business owners to find out what changes they would like to see in the Saratoga business community. The new surveys won't copy the survey already conducted by the Saratoga Business Development Council, Kilbourne stressed.
"I want to get the community's advice and input on a great number of issues," he said.
The verbal input and surveys citizens give at the meeting will later be used to formulate a marketing plan for the city. Kilbourne said he will gather information and compile the surveys for about six weeks after the town hall meeting. Then he'll be ready to propose a plan.
Other possible topics for the Town Hall meeting include an explanation of the Saratoga Business Development Council's functions and a discussion of home-based businesses in Saratoga.
The Town Hall meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Saratoga Senior Center, 19655 Allendale Ave.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, Wednesday, January 3, 1996.
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