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<br /> <br />TEXAS <br />HISTORICAL <br />COMMISSION <br /> <br />RICK PERRY, GOVERNOR <br /> <br />JOHN L NAt', III, CHAIR;\IAN <br /> <br />F, IA WERENCE OAKS, EXEC! iTlVE DIRECTOR <br /> <br />The Slale Agemy for Hlsloril: Preservation <br /> <br />LETTER OF AGREEMENT <br /> <br />The city of La Porte is invited to participate in the Texas Main Street Program (TMSP) at the sustaining <br />level. This Letter of Agreement (LOA) represents your commitment to continue as an official Main Street <br />city at the sustaining level for 2008. <br /> <br />I. The following is a list of services your community will receive as a Main Street city at the sustaining <br />level: <br /> <br />A. Program Manager Training <br />The TMSP provides or sanctions several training opportunities throughout the year. Trainings are <br />also a scored category in the annual report (See section II.A.8,9). As an official Main Street city <br />at the sustaining level you agree to send your Main Street manager to at least two of these <br />training sessions each year: <br /> <br />1. Basic Training and Continuing Education and Development or Continuing Education <br />and Development (JanuarylFebruary); <br />2. Texas Historical Commission Annual Conference in the spring; <br />3. Main Street Summer Workshop; <br />4. Texas Downtown Association / Main Street Annual Conference (fall). <br />5. National Main Streets Conference in the spring; <br />6. National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. <br /> <br />If a replacement manager who has not attended Main Street training is hired in a sustaining Main <br />Street City, the Main Street manager will be required to attend the Texas Main Street Basic <br />Training and Continuing Education and Development in January and February. A stipend <br />for this training will be charged to the sustaining city. Volunteers, including board and committee <br />members, are also encouraged to attend training. <br /> <br />B. Main Street Program Network and use of the Main Street brand <br />As the recognized coordinating program for Texas (see "Name Use Policy", www .lllail1strcct.or~ <br />and last page of this LOA), this signed Letter of Agreement constitutes recognition of your city as <br />an official Main Street program. As part of the network, your Main Street manager receives Main <br />Street Matters, the monthly Main Street electronic newsletter; and is subscribed to the Main <br />Street listserv, an email network available only to Texas Main Street cities. <br /> <br />C. Service/On-site visits <br />TMSP shall provide staff visits to assist with the following on a request basis: schematic <br />computer or hand-generated facade sketches, site consultations, technical information or <br />emergency assistance based on the recommendations of the THC Main Street Program design <br />staff Staff visits are also made for economic development assistance and consultation, along with <br />board training and work plan development/strategic planning. <br /> <br />D. Securing a Main Street Manager <br />Should a replacement manager be needed, the state office will assist the local program upon <br />request by providing sample job descriptions, resumes on file (if available), posting of the job on <br /> <br />1'.0. 1l0X la-(,. AtSI'IN. TX -X-II.2r6 . ~12,i6,.61O(} . FAX ~12.i-~..IX-2 . TDD I.XOO'-5~.29X9 <br />www .lh(' .~I;IIl'. IX .IIS <br />