SEASIDE — Weeks after the departure of the Seaside Downtown Development Association’s Tita Montero, the organization’s nine-member board selected Sarah Dailey to head the group. Dailey was serving as the association’s interim executive director.

The board praised Dailey’s “well-rounded background” and good working relationship with the development association’s board, its membership, and the downtown Seaside business community.

Dailey was originally hired last June as an administrative assistant.

The transition has been “very smooth,” Dailey said Friday.

“Tita did a lot of good things here,” she said, “and she left us in a very good place.”

The association receives partial funding from the city and member fees.

Donations are welcome, Dailey added, and usually go for a special event or production.

Seaside Muscle & Chrome, Seaside Wine Walk, a Halloween event and flower basket campaigns are among the association’s signature projects.

The development association’s beautification committee prepares flower baskets and is helping select art for new trash receptacles.

“We have an emphasis on supporting those businesses here in the downtown area, as defined by the maintenance district,” Dailey said.

“And if our membership says, ‘We have concerns,’ we take them to the city. The city doesn’t want 140 different opinions.”

Dailey holds a bachelor of science degree with a minor in business from William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri.

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