A drive to ''spread the load'' of work for the Mosgiel Business Association has been successful.
The association's committee had shrunk to four people in the past year and those remaining were struggling with the workload, chairman Blair Arthur said.
However, a ''surprising'' 18 people turned up to the association's recent annual meeting and a committee of 11 was formed. Mr Arthur was re-elected chairman and he hoped the larger committee would help to spread the load.
The association was responsible for many of the town's business events around Christmas, Sunday market days and the celebrity chef cook-off for the Festival of the Plains, as well as about 20 planter boxes put around the business area.
The association planned to be more proactive about issues in the community and would look at how to involve the industrial end of Mosgiel, as well.
''We have to make them feel they do get value for their membership.''
The association's first committee meeting was held recently and it set a date for Mosgiel's market day, December 8, and for late night shopping on December 12.
It was hoped a member of the Mosgiel Community Board would be added to the committee.
