Greetings Festival Heads & Tourism Partners,

Mike Kitzman and I have come up with a solution to our festival banner dilemma. With every festival now obtaining banners, we are running out of time to have each banner up before a festival takes place. We are sending a timeline that will give the dates each banner will be put up, how long it will be up, when it will come down, and the festival banner that will follow.

For those festivals that are running concurrently with each other we have decided to be fair and give each festival the opportunity to be first. For example, The Beach to Chowder Run and the DOG are the same weekend this year. The DOG will go up first and run for one week, then come down and the Beach to Chowder Run will run for the week leading up to the event. In 2009, if the events run the same weekend the Beach to Chowder Run will go up first and the DOG will run second. Therefore, each festival will be in a rotating system for all advertising fairness.

Due to the amount of banners that we already have to display, we will no longer be accepting banners for any other festival without prior approval from the City of Long Beach staff. If you have an existing banner, we will notify you if your banner needs to be repaired or replaced. The following banners are in need of attention at this time; the Rodeo banner.

The schedule is as follows:

January:

• Beach Clean – Banner will go up on the 22^nd, event is on the 26^th, the banner will be taken down on the 28^th.

February:

No banners

March:

• Bluegrass Festival – Banner will go up on the 20^th, event is on the 28-30, the banner will be taken down on the 31^st.

April:

• Beach Clean – Banner will go up on the 21^st, event is on the 26^th, the banner will be taken down on the 28^th.
• Loyalty Days – Banner will go up on the 28^th, event is on the 4^th, the banner will be taken down on the 5^th of May

May:

• Surf Perch Derby – Banner will go up on the 5^th, event is on the 17^th, the banner will be taken down on the 19^th.
• SummerFest – Banner will go up on the 19^th, the first weekend is Memorial Day, the banner will be taken down on the 9^th of June.

June:

• The DOG – Banner will go up on the 9^th, event is on the 21^st, the banner will be taken down on the 16^th
• The Beach to Chowder Run – Banner will go up on the 16^th, the event is on the 21^st, the banner will be taken down on the 23^rd.
• SummerFest – Banner will go up on the 23^rd, event is every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the banner will be taken down on July 14^th.

July:

• Sandsations – Banner will go up on the 14^th, event is on the 25-26, the banner will be taken down on the 21^st.
• Long Beach Rodeo – Banner will go up on the 21^st, event is on the 26-27, the banner will be taken down on the 28^th.

August:

• WA State International Kite Festival – Banner will go up on the 8^th, the event takes place 18-24, the banner will come down on the 18^th, and the KITE MUSEUM banner will run for one week during the festival. The Kite Museum banner will be taken down on the 25^th.
• Rod Run – Banner will go up on the 25^{th August}, event is the 12-13 of September, the banner will be taken down on the 15^th of September.

September:

• Rod Run – Banner will be taken down on the 15^th September.

October:

• Kite Museum – Banner will go up on the 1^st, event is on the 11-12^th, banner will be taken down on the 13^th.
• Water Music Festival – Banner will go up on the 13^th, the event is on the 17th-19^th, and banner will be taken down on the 20^th.

NOTE: Do to high winds and driving rain, NO banners will be displayed after October 20^th, 2008. Banners will be put up weather permitting at the discretion of the City of Long Beach Parks Supervisor, Mike Kitzman.

Respectfully,

Ragan Andrew

Economic Activities Coordinator

City of Long Beach

P O Box 310

Long Beach, WA 98631

360-642-4421