Members of the board meet the second Tuesday of the month. Currently, our meetings are being held at 5:30 PM at Front Street Taproom. The public is welcome to attend! We hope to see you there.
The 2020 board meetings are scheduled for October 13, November 10, and December 10. All board meeting times are subject to change; please follow us on Facebook or check this website for updates.
We are looking for Board Members! Please complete this form and send to Paul Gleye at yubecha@hotmail.com.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Officers: Paul Gleye (Chair), Austin Foss (Vice Chair), Cody Schuler (Treasurer)
Members-at-Large: Aaron Templin, Christine Hoper, Erica Rapp, Josh Hoper, Josie Danz, Kay Schwarzwalter, & Linda Hogan
We want to thank Arlette Preston, Carol Schlossmann, Tommy Schmidt, and Josie Danz for their board service over the years!
We have two board member openings. If you are interested in serving on the board, please Contact Us.
Aaron Templin: Aaron moved to Moorhead from small town central MN in 2006 to attend Concordia College, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Accounting. He went on to manage the Food & Beverage department at the Scheels Arena for six years before deciding to open up a business downtown with his wife Lindsey - Front Street Taproom. In 2018, Aaron and Lindsey (along with their dog and cat, Jax and Harry) purchased a house on the southwest corner of the downtown neighborhood, which they all love very much. Aaron's favorite things about living and working downtown are the incredible people, restaurants, and proximity to the river and the Red River trail. Aaron is excited about the growth of downtown and looks forward to working on improving bike infrastructure to, from, and within downtown.
Austin Foss: Austin is an architectural designer currently working in downtown Fargo. This is his first year back living downtown since graduating from NDSU in 2017. He loves how much downtown has continued to thrive and the many restaurants, coffee shops, bars and retail outlets that are all within walking distance. He enjoys his two-minute commute to work every day. Austin has a passion for urban design and creating vibrant urban environments in winter cities. He enjoys music, arts, listening to podcasts, conversation over a beer/cider, and travel. He is looking forward to being involved in the conversation to continue and expand the vibrancy of downtown Fargo.
Christine Hoper: Christine Hoper spent her early childhood in the Minnesota lakes area and high school years in the wide-open badlands of western North Dakota. A UND grad, she’s lived and worked in the downtown neighborhood for the past 11 years. Growing up one of five siblings in a family on the move, Christine understood from an early age a neighborhood is everything you care to make it. She’s never outgrown exploring the new perspective a move (cross-country, across town or down the street!) can bring. When ad agency daytime hours wind down, you’ll find Christine taking in all things downtown. She’s a past Theatre B board member and currently serves on the Plains Art Museum board, MSUM Operations/Project & Global Supply Chain Management advisory board, and is a Fargo Film Festival volunteer jury chair.
Cody J. Schuler, Treasurer Cody J. Schuler has lived and worked downtown for 7 years. He thinks downtown is the best neighborhood in the city and its walkability and convince rivals or surpasses larger urban areas where he's lived. He proudly makes his home in the southern end of downtown and is enthusiastic about the SoMA (south of Main Ave) community. He is the executive director of the FM Coalition to End Homelessness, a local solutions based advocacy and education organization. Cody is a graduate of Dakota Wesleyan University and Duke University, is a trained community organizer, and is passionate about issues of social justice and systems change. He also serves on the North Dakota Coalition for Homeless People's Board of Directors and has acted as that organization's legislative coordinator. A self-identified NPR nerd, coffee addict, and craft beer snob, Cody enjoys cooking, kayaking, snowshoeing, and Blue Devil basketball.
Kay Schwarzwalter Kay Schwarzwalter, who spent her youth on a farm on the North Dakota-South Dakota border south of Reeder, North Dakota, has lived in Fargo for the past 30 years, the last 12 in downtown Fargo. Kay recently retired from her position at the Center for Social Research at NDSU. She formerly served on the Fargo Theater Board of Directors and is currently the volunteer coordinator for the Cooper Community Garden on the edge of downtown Fargo. Kay is passionate about women’s and children’s issues and is committed to making Downtown Fargo a family-friendly environment where she can bring her grandchildren to partake of the shops and delicacies on Broadway and the surrounding area. She is in the final stages of restoring her historic home, in the Milton Earl Beebe National Register Historic District in downtown Fargo, to its 1906 splendor. She enjoys travel and appreciates the diversity that different cultures bring to the Fargo community.
Linda Hogan: Linda grew up in Jamestown, ND in a large family with 6 siblings. She graduated from Mayvville State University with a major in childhood development. She moved to Fargo in 1989 and has been here ever since. Linda works for an agency that supports persons with varying abilities and diagnoses to obtain meaningful employment within the community. Growing up, her parents instilled in her that inclusion for all humans is key to making communities strong. Linda holds very true to that teaching with the work she does in human services and believes that is what makes neighborhoods prosper.
Paul Gleye, Chair Paul Gleye is a city planner and faculty member in the NDSU school of architecture. A California native, he has lived in downtown Fargo for nearly 20 years after having lived in Chicago, Santa Fe, Pasadena and Bozeman, as well as France, Belgium, and Germany. Currently he leads the NDSU architecture program’s term abroad program, spending three months a year guiding students through Europe, but believes the quality of urban living in downtown Fargo to be second to none. He brings to the Downtown Neighborhood Association a lifelong passion for historic city centers, believing that the city center embodies the vision of the entire city that is projected to the world. His 1906 historic house in downtown is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Milton Earl Beebe Historic District. In 2018 he serves as president of the Fargo Downtown Neighborhood Association.
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