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SPECIAL MEETING
November 23, 2004
Commissioners Present: Dan Coody, Neal Crawford, Pat Gazzola, Don Marr, David
McGeady, and Maudie Schmitt.
Commissioners Absent: Curtis Shipley
Staff Present: Allyson Twiggs and Marilyn Heifner
Chairman Pat Gazzola called the special meeting of the Fayetteville Advertising and
Promotion Commission to order on November 23, 2004 at the Catfish Hole at 12:35 p.m.
The house at 930 California Drive is for sale. This is the house lived in by Bill and
Hillary Rodham Clinton while they were in Fayetteville.
Allyson Twiggs and Marilyn Heifner presented a business plan for the house as a tourism
attraction. The Museum would chronicle the life of the Clintons in Fayetteville.
Motorcoaches would be a perfect audience for tours of the house. In a tour of the four
places in Arkansas, Fayetteville would be a natural for internationals flying into XNA.
• The Museum could have a $6 million dollar economic impact on the Fayetteville
economy.
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The focus of the product of the house would that it would be a great destination to
enhance the tourism product in Fayetteville and attract a whole new audience not here
before. It become a tour package with Hot Springs, Hope and Little Rock. We could
connect with the state Parks and Tourism Commission and their investment in the Clinton
product.
Moved by Gazzola, second by Marr that the Commission spend up to $1,000 for an
appraisal of the house and a structural engineenng study. Motion carried.
It was the consensus that the best hands for the house to fall into would be those of the A
& P Commission and have its operation under its umbrella.
Meeting adjourned at 12:55 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Manlyn Heifner
Executive Director
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