Craig Franke

Downtown liquor license expansions

Supports downtown businesses and event attendance; no direct city cost identified.

Main Street Monroe grant funded through TID No. 7

$40,000 annually from TID 7 through roughly 2032, freeing that amount on the general tax levy.

Housing and economic development update

GCDC will ask the city for a bigger municipal contribution in the next budget — its first fee increase in nearly 35 years.

ATV traffic downtown

Unknown — no dollar figure was proposed yet; it would come out of the capital improvement plan at budget time.

Cars on the Square beer garden

Cheese Days and Fall Nationals beer gardens and special events

Baumgartner's dining room expansion and hotel connection

No direct cost to the city; the license fee and the expansion are privately funded.

Downtown fire recovery and community response

The renewals keep license fees flowing with no new cost to the city.

Bardo's Fire Recovery Fundraiser at Cactus & Co.

The fundraiser is meant to help a fire-damaged downtown business recover; the city is covering barricade costs.

Eugene Hotel reopening

The restoration was backed by a mix of city, state, and local economic development funding, and officials hope it boosts downtown tourism.

Sale of 5-acre North Industrial Park parcel