1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,500 Good morning. My name is Marty Rivers. I'm the chair of the Economic Development Partnership Board. It is 1102 am and I call the meeting to order. I'd like to welcome everybody here. Thank you for being here. We've got several items on the agenda today, and we'll go ahead and start off with our first item for consideration is EDP 19-066. 2 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:38,500 Consider approval of the minutes of our August 14th and September 9th meetings. 3 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:41,000 I move for approval. 4 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Second. 5 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,500 Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve the minutes as presented. 6 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:49,500 Both minutes, that is, August and September? 7 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:50,500 Yes. 8 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:52,500 Oh, thank you. 9 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,500 Both sets. 10 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,500 Comments or questions? 11 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:01,500 All those in favor say aye. 12 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:02,500 Aye. 13 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,500 Any opposed? Same sign. 14 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:09,500 All right, the minutes are approved. Now we get to get on to the fun stuff. 15 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:24,500 Item EDP 19-058 is to receive nominations and elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson of the Economic Development Partnership Board for fiscal year 2019 and 20. 16 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:28,500 All right. Well, good morning, everyone. 17 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:31,500 October is the start of our new fiscal year. 18 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:35,500 And so with that, we started the appointment process. 19 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:41,500 So those of you whose terms had expired in 2019, we went through that process with city council. 20 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:44,500 So the board is now set for the next fiscal year. 21 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:49,500 So the board needs to nominate and appoint a chair and a vice chair. 22 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:58,500 As I included in your pocket currently, Marty serves as the chair and John Baines serves as the vice chair. 23 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:05,500 And the rest is up to you guys. 24 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:11,500 I move that Marty serve another year as chair. 25 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:19,500 And I'll second that and add who we do vice chair. 26 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:23,500 We'll just go ahead and do Marty chair. 27 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,500 I'll second that. 28 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:30,500 All right. Any further discussion? 29 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:32,500 All those in favor say aye. 30 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:33,500 Aye. 31 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:34,500 Any opposed? 32 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,500 I'm glad you didn't say nay. 33 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:43,500 This will be that'll actually this will be my last year. So this one got one more year ago. 34 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:48,500 All right. How about vice chair? Any nominations? 35 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:52,500 I nominate John Baines. 36 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:53,500 I'll second that. 37 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,500 We've got a motion and a second. 38 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:58,500 Any further discussion? 39 00:02:58,500 --> 00:02:59,500 All those in favor say aye. 40 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:01,500 Aye. 41 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:03,500 Motion carries. 42 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:08,500 I guess if you're not here you can't. 43 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:12,500 All right. Thank you for letting us get that out of the way. 44 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:30,500 The next item is to consider adoption of an ordinance of the city of Denton authorizing a city manager to execute a professional services agreement with tip strategies for the development of a comprehensive economic development strategic plan. 45 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:34,500 Jessica is going to go over that. 46 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:40,500 Right. Well, a lot of information I'm going to be presenting is items that you have already seen. 47 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:50,500 But just to give you a little background, the City Council provided funding in the last fiscal year to fund a comprehensive economic development strategic plan. 48 00:03:50,500 --> 00:04:03,500 Staff drafted a scope of work that was presented to you at the joint city council meeting on September 9th and we got direction to move forward. Just to remind you of what that scope was we split work into two phases. 49 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:09,500 The first phase was a review of the contract with between the city and the chamber that works in progress. 50 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:15,500 That component was negotiated separately so we could get that in process very quickly. 51 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:32,500 The second phase is the comprehensive strategic plan scope that included the assessment of the community and comparisons of similar communities, a vision and goal setting, working with a number of stakeholders to define what the vision of economic development is in Denton. 52 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:46,500 We talked about target industries and what sectors and subsectors we'd like to focus our efforts in for marketing and recruitment incentives and different tools that included both traditional and non traditional incentives as we've talked about with this group. 53 00:04:46,500 --> 00:05:12,500 Also making recommendations regarding areas that are ready for redevelopment or areas where we'll see new development in the future. We're also asking the consultant to put to help us put together action plans specifically to guide our work over the next three to five years, so that we don't just have a plan on a shelf but we actually have strategies and tactics and projects that we can execute on and report that on. 54 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:39,500 So we saw proposals from a number of firms, and we are going to be recommending executing a contract with tip strategies tip is a well known firm and they've produced a number of high quality economic development strategic plans for many of the cities in the Metroplex so they're very familiar with this area and sort of the economic ecosystem that we all operate in their base out of Austin, but make frequent trips up to the Metroplex to do work. 55 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:53,500 And through their proposal they've demonstrated a commitment to meet both our defined scope and timeline, but also to use a unique engagement process in which stakeholders would be heavily involved in helping determine key aspects of the strategy. 56 00:05:53,500 --> 00:06:12,500 That staff recommends that this board make a recommendation to city council to adopt an ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute the professional services agreement with tip strategies for the economic development strategic plan and amount not to exceed $135,000. 57 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:33,500 So I have a question on phase two. I didn't see in there anywhere like music venue or sport complex or any type of art related, which I consider pretty big economic development factor in a community such as ours is that is that a sub sector. 58 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:49,500 I mean that included or we didn't include anything related directly to the creative sector in the broad overview of the scope, I would say that I would integrate that into the areas for for redevelopment, meaning that we want downtown to be a focus area of the redevelopment 59 00:06:49,500 --> 00:07:06,500 part of this. And so, as the live music venue that's something that our department's been working on we've been focusing on the downtown area within the cultural district so it may tie in in that capacity but we didn't specifically call out creative sector or music or athletic venues 60 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:20,500 as something specific to ask for doesn't mean it won't come up in the process as an important economic development tool or strategy that we want to pursue. 61 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:33,500 I don't think those will all be part of the conversation that we're looking at. Should we bring the Google's or baseball team downtown, wherever it's a word regardless of where it's at. 62 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:41,500 I mean we didn't, I don't think we called out anything specifically on anything else as a broad overview so I think that would be part of the conversation we need to make sure it comes up. 63 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:56,500 And I think that that would be as we're developing our stakeholder team, making sure that the creative sector or something from the entertainment sector is represented in the stakeholder team so that that perspective gets included. 64 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:05,500 I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't getting ignored and because it's it's pretty vital, and we have lots of opportunities here to enhance those sectors. 65 00:08:05,500 --> 00:08:20,500 Absolutely. Thank you. I think also this is looking at the tools, bringing jobs, kind of an overview of jobs versus like the destination or something that you know as far as events that bring people in for the night. 66 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:38,500 I think this is, I mean so it's just a broader overview. It's pretty comprehensive so we're going to work with the consultants over the next kind of few months to really start narrowing down when we say these things this is what we mean and so I think 67 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:55,500 we're sharing those comments that we can make sure that we integrate that when we provide them direction. 68 00:08:55,500 --> 00:09:11,500 And I think we can all in discussion say we want to have gigantic skate park, they may say you don't have the infrastructure for that or those kind of you know I think anything everybody's on the table work what do we need to focus on. 69 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:25,500 And we all want to focus on this they may say that's the best thing ever or, you know, you're never going to get there. What's the trade on. Here's where here's where you have the most major bug and from our perspective. 70 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:29,500 Everything is on the table. 71 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:33,500 What's the, what's the goal for timing. 72 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:47,500 We just go through the process and have some kind of report back, probably about six months to completion from our start date, I started speaking with tip as it relates to timing and how we would move forward we had a pretty aggressive timeline 73 00:09:47,500 --> 00:10:03,500 in the proposal. We're kind of a little bit delayed from that so we've already started renegotiating what that timeline looks like and they gave me the estimate of about six months from the go date, and we're anticipating that being sometime November, early December 74 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:27,500 at this we have to kind of work into their project schedule and their assignment schedule when they can get a staff member assigned, and of course, holidays. So, is that for just is that for both phases or phase one is nearing completion so that would be the start of phase two. 75 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:35,500 Do you need a motion from this group to move forward. 76 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:37,500 Second. 77 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:40,500 The motion is second. 78 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,500 Any further discussion. 79 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:45,500 All those in favor say aye. 80 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:47,500 Any opposed. 81 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:49,500 Carries, right. 82 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:54,500 Looking forward to being involved in that process. 83 00:10:54,500 --> 00:11:09,500 All right, our next item is consider a report give discussion and give staff direction regarding a downtown reinvestment grant for the property located at 104 West McKinney Street. 84 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:25,500 The downtown Economic Development Committee has recommended a grant in the amount of $25,000 and that was a nine to zero vote. 85 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:39,500 104 West McKinney is right now, and you probably noticed the former being a towing company. Do you have the owner of the building here Mr. Cheap. 86 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,500 So this is kind of a map it is right. 87 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:45,500 If you walk up from the post office it's right up there on McKinney. 88 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:47,500 It faces that way. 89 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:49,500 This is what it looks like right now. 90 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,500 I think the cards are out of there. 91 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:59,500 That's what it looks like. It does not include the old gas stations. 92 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:02,500 So here's the just the drawings. 93 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:04,500 They're looking to open a restaurant here. 94 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:08,500 They're not sure exactly what type of restaurant it's going to be. 95 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:09,500 But that's that's the plan. 96 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:17,500 It's going to be a restaurant and they've got some elevations here in your backup and front elevations. 97 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:19,500 I apologize that these are crooked. 98 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:23,500 My old scanner this week it's gone. 99 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,500 And then just a sketch of the inside and how the layout they think is going to look. 100 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:34,500 I think some of this may be flexible as to when they get a tenant and just decide what kind of restaurant is going to be. 101 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:37,500 Some of this on the inside may change. 102 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:45,500 So their eligible expenses for the facade rehab is $69,910 signage. 103 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:50,500 I think is underestimated at about 10,000 impact fees at 20,000. 104 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:57,500 That also is an estimate utility upgrades because they're going to have to put in a lot. 105 00:12:57,500 --> 00:12:59,500 There's only one little restroom in there at that point. 106 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:05,500 There's no water and sewer, et cetera, for a kitchen facility. 107 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:10,500 $87,000 on utility, about $220,000 on interior code improvement. 108 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:17,500 And that's a new category this year that includes asbestos removal, mold removal, and sprinkler system. 109 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:25,500 So the sprinkler system is the big ticket item there, which gives them an allowable expense of $403,910. 110 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:34,500 Total cost of the project I also think is a bit of an underestimate at this point because it's not finalized, $612,935. 111 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:47,500 They did ask for a $25,000 grant, and on August 8th, the Downtown Economic Development Committee reviewed this and they recommended $25,000 for nine to zero. 112 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:48,500 It was unanimous. 113 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:50,500 So they had an average score of 26. 114 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:54,500 I did include the score sheets in there, so take a look at those. 115 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:59,500 And the score of 25 to 30 gives them a recommendation up to $25,000. 116 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:07,500 And like I say, the [inaudible] is requiring it now, I did recommend the $25,000. 117 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:08,500 Any others here? 118 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:13,500 Or I can answer any questions if you want to ask questions. 119 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:17,500 >> So the $25,000, that's as much as this building can accept, correct? 120 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:19,500 So there wouldn't be anything left. 121 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:25,500 So my question is, so there's not a tenant yet, but signage was on there as an expense. 122 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:30,500 So does that mean that they're going to pay for the signage for the tenant when they get in there? 123 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:36,500 Because if not, I'd rather leave some allowance for a tenant to come in and be able to use- 124 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:40,500 >> Ask Mr. Dow if he can come up and address the microphone, please. 125 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:51,500 >> My name is Chi Da. 126 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:57,500 I'm the owner of the 104 West McKinney, and can you repeat your question again? 127 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:04,500 >> So for our grants, there's a $25,000 maximum on each building. 128 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:10,500 So if you had a tenant move in, they wouldn't be able to use this grant for anything they needed, 129 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:14,500 because it would all be used ahead of time. 130 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:21,500 And then on the list, it listed signage, and I didn't know if you were going to purchase the signage for your tenant. 131 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,500 >> The signage? What does the signage mean? 132 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:24,500 >> Signs. 133 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:26,500 >> Signs, the signs business. 134 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:31,500 >> I think I'm going to put almost like 80 or 90% of my money into a restaurant, 135 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:40,500 and later I may occupy that space, depending on how I feel that time. 136 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:47,500 >> Are you buying, paying for the sign, or will a tenant have to pay for the sign? 137 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,500 >> I want to pay for the sign. 138 00:15:50,500 --> 00:16:01,500 >> Okay, so on the visual, it looked like there were people sitting out in front. 139 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,500 Are you planning on having, because McKinney's very busy, 140 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:10,500 were you planning on having an extension or a protection put in if there's a patio? 141 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:16,500 >> There's a patio, but there's a wall in front of that, like a pane in front of that. 142 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:26,500 See the small wall in front of that? 143 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,500 >> Oh, there's a little brick. 144 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:32,500 >> The opening there, it's inside the building. 145 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:34,500 >> Oh, okay. 146 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:38,500 >> Okay, the sidewalk is only about three or four feet, so you can see that. 147 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:42,500 >> Right, that was, okay, I'm sorry. 148 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:43,500 >> Joe? 149 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:45,500 >> So have these numbers come from estimates? 150 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:47,500 Have you signed contracts? 151 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:48,500 Where are you with the timeline? 152 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,500 >> Yeah, I already signed a contract, quit a contract with. 153 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:53,500 >> Okay. 154 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:55,500 >> And I already paid for the permit for this morning, 155 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:59,500 and the impact fee for this morning, about $35,000. 156 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:04,500 And I paid for a contract that's about $100,000 so they can buy the insurance. 157 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:07,500 They start working on that this week. 158 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:08,500 >> Thank you. 159 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:13,500 >> And just as a reminder, they have to complete all the work before they get the money, so if they-- 160 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:16,500 >> Yeah, I still have to pay for health department. 161 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:18,500 >> What type of restaurant are you envisioning? 162 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:22,500 >> We haven't decided to find out yet, but it depends how I feel. 163 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:29,500 Because I'm 70 now, so if my son agreed to run it for me, I might let my son do it then. 164 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:33,500 And I might decide, you know, I haven't decided what kind of restaurant to do it. 165 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:37,500 Maybe a coffee shop, maybe a bar, or maybe a small restaurant. 166 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:45,500 Just serve the breakfast only. 167 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:48,500 >> Do you have a history or background in restaurants? 168 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:53,500 >> My parents used to own a restaurant in Minneapolis. 169 00:17:53,500 --> 00:18:00,500 I'm an engineer, but my parent was on the restaurant for a long time back home. 170 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:03,500 >> You might tell them the other property you own downtown. 171 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:06,500 >> I have another building in downtown. 172 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:10,500 It's 102 North Locust, and my son is occupying the front of it. 173 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:13,500 He's a podiatrist. 174 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:14,500 >> It's next to the house. 175 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:16,500 >> It's next to the bank building. 176 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:18,500 >> Facing on the right side of Jibber House. 177 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:24,500 He has been here before, and we did that on the building. 178 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:31,500 He's got a good track record with us. 179 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:37,500 Any more questions? 180 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:42,500 Do they want to jump out there with the motion? 181 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:50,500 >> I'll move that we take the recommendation of the downtown task force and recommend the 25,000. 182 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:59,500 I think that this seriously expands the footprint of the economic area 183 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:07,500 and continues to widen the destination and share the wealth that is bringing people downtown. 184 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:13,500 I'm excited on that street to see some new development. 185 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:20,500 >> I will second with the knowledge that you intend to purchase the sign for your tenant, 186 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,500 if you should get one, so that's already covered. 187 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:27,500 I'll second. 188 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,500 >> We've got a motion and a second. 189 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:32,500 Any further discussion? 190 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:34,500 All those in favor say aye. 191 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:35,500 >> Aye. 192 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:37,500 >> Any opposed? 193 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:38,500 Motion carries. 194 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:39,500 Thank you very much. 195 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,500 >> Good luck. 196 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:44,500 >> Next stop, City Council. 197 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:50,500 >> Well, actually, it'll go to -- so you're seeing all of these today. 198 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:54,500 These are the last four grants that you'll see. 199 00:19:54,500 --> 00:20:01,500 They will then go to the TURS board, but because we will hit the funding cap for the general funds 200 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:06,500 in the process of these four, we don't know which one of the four will be the one that triggers that change. 201 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:11,500 So all four get to go through both EDP and then the TURS board and then City Council. 202 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:13,500 So they have one stop. 203 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:16,500 >> I think I'll say it. 204 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:18,500 We don't need to make all four of them do that. 205 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:19,500 We've got money in the general fund. 206 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:25,500 We need to not make all these people go through four committees for money. 207 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:32,500 I mean, we used to do this, see manager approval and all that stuff, so I hate to -- my opinion, 208 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:41,500 but I hate to make all four people go through four committee meetings while they're in the middle of spending all their money. 209 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:47,500 If we can limit that to one person doing that, if we run out of money, that can be done simultaneously, 210 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:50,500 so it won't take any longer to do. 211 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:51,500 Somebody can go to the TURS board. 212 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,500 Somebody can go to the City Council. 213 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:56,500 There's no reason to make all four of them do that. 214 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:57,500 I don't think so. 215 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,500 I don't know who makes that decision. 216 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:01,500 >> We can check with our legal department. 217 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:04,500 We just wanted to make sure that we have the right approvals that's required. 218 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:13,500 >> I want the right approvals, but I don't -- I don't know when those boards meet and timing and the City Council and all that stuff, 219 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:27,500 but I hate to make these people already go to Economic Development Downtown Committee, TURS, and City Council. 220 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,500 That's too much to ask people to do, in my opinion. 221 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:32,500 >> Okay. 222 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:39,500 >> We will research that and make sure that we follow it. 223 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:50,500 >> All right. EDP 1962 Receive Report and Hold the Discussion for a Grant Request for 108 West Oak Street. 224 00:21:50,500 --> 00:22:00,500 The committee recommended a grant in the amount of $3,309 and had an 8-0 vote on that. 225 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:01,500 >> All right. 226 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:13,500 We do have the order of the business here as well, so they're really pretty much dead middle of Oak Street, straight across from the courthouse. 227 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:16,500 This is the finished product. 228 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:23,500 She went ahead and she turned the application in before she started, but she's gone ahead and moved ahead with the awnings and the signage. 229 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:25,500 So there's signage on the door. 230 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:30,500 There's signage -- the awnings up here, and there's a blank sign, which is right there. 231 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:35,500 And, of course, some paint and other things that happened here as well. 232 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:39,500 So the facade rehabilitation was $3,100. 233 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:41,500 Signage was $219. 234 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:48,500 The awnings were $3,302 for an allowable expense of $6,621. 235 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,500 Total cost of the project was $12,000. 236 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:59,500 The grant request is half of the allowable expenses, so that's why it's kind of an odd amount on this one. 237 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:07,500 September 26th, the Downtown Economic Development Committee reviewed this and recommended $3,309. 238 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:16,500 They scored 21, which could be up to $10,000 because she has only spent $6,621 in allowable expenses. 239 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:24,500 Then half of that is the $3,209, excuse me. 240 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:29,500 She's here if you have any questions. 241 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:31,500 I would like to recommend approval. 242 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:39,500 For me, all the points basically could go into that other section there for much-needed children's clothing down on the squares. 243 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:46,500 Anything for kids and children down there is a plus, so I would recommend approval. 244 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:49,500 Any other motion? Anyone want to second? 245 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:51,500 Second. 246 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:56,500 Motion and a second. Any further discussion or any questions? 247 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,500 All those in favor say aye. 248 00:23:58,500 --> 00:23:59,500 Aye. 249 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:01,500 Any opposed? 250 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:06,500 Question carries. 251 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:16,500 And moving right along, we will take a look at EDP 19063. 252 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:24,500 Receive a report to hold the discussion and give staff direction on a grant request for 216 West Oak Street. 253 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:30,500 The Downtown Economic Development Committee recommended a grant in the amount of $25,000, 8-0. 254 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:34,500 Do we want to try to do these together? 255 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:43,500 Actually, so when this was first turned in, they turned in a grant for each address, and that's why that topic is a little bit larger. 256 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:51,500 So when we started investigating, the way the grant is awarded is it's $25,000 cap per building. 257 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:57,500 These are actually two different buildings, so there's multiple addresses on each building. 258 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:01,500 So this first one is 216 West Oak and 205 North Sea. 259 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:08,500 I can show you just a couple of fun historic photos here of that block. 260 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:12,500 This is the building in question right here. 261 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:21,500 So the building kind of wraps this corner, and so this is the oak address, and this is the cedar address coming around the corner. 262 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:24,500 Just a little side of that. 263 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:27,500 There is a door entrance on that side as well. 264 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:29,500 Right now, they've painted. 265 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:31,500 They've put some new awnings up. 266 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:36,500 They do have a tenant called Thorn and Rose. 267 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,500 That's it, Thorn and Rose, that's going to move in a retail shop. 268 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:47,500 So the two of these together, and that's what I did on that first page there, I added these buildings together. 269 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:52,500 The façade rehabilitation, $55,795. 270 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,500 Awnings, $37,242. 271 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:58,500 Signage, $16,400. 272 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:01,500 Impact fees, $5,331. 273 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:05,500 Utility upgrades, $33,193. 274 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:18,500 For total allowable expenses of $147,961, they did do asbestos removal, which on the scoring system gives them some points. 275 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:23,500 But that is not eligible for reimbursement because they did it prior to turning in the application. 276 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:30,500 So it counted as far as the scoring went with the other committee, but it's not reimbursable. 277 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:40,500 The total cost of this project is $213,020.81, which is very precise, and they're asking for $25,000. 278 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:48,500 The Economic Development Committee looked at this on September 26 and recommended $25,820. 279 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:56,500 Their average score was 25, and the score of 25 to 30 is a grant recommendation up to $25,000. 280 00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,500 John McDonald is here with Scott Brown. 281 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:00,500 Scott Brown is the owner. 282 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:03,500 He is here if you have any questions about the project. 283 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,500 So this is the first building. 284 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:08,500 Yes, sir. 285 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:11,500 And that's the one on Oak Street. 286 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:14,500 The official address is 216 Oak Street. 287 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:18,500 Do you want to do the next one also since they're contiguous? 288 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,500 I can do that. 289 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:31,500 So the next one is 211. This also includes all of those little addresses down Cedar Street, which is 207, 209, 211, and 215. 290 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:37,500 And this is a site view of a couple of those doors on Cedar Street. 291 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:42,500 It, too, has been painted in new oilings that have been put up at this point. 292 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:45,500 These buildings are also in that. 293 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:52,500 This is just a close up as they were doing some work on this building, obviously, at the time we took this photo. 294 00:27:52,500 --> 00:28:06,500 And this goes around to the back of what is now Summit Gym has taken over where the lab was, and that's the patio back there, which I think Scott also has that. 295 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:11,500 So adding together all those grants that came in separately at first. 296 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:23,500 Facade rehabilitation, $45,215, awnings are $32,870, signage $12,800, and impact fees $15,400. 297 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:30,500 Utility upgrades, $79,854 for allowable expenses of $186,139. 298 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:39,500 Again, this asbestos removal was done prior to turning in the application, so it's not, they've done it, but it's not eligible for reimbursement. 299 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:46,500 The total cost of this project is $222,900.90. 300 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:49,500 They did request $25,000. 301 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:56,500 The downtown economic development committee looked at it on September 26th and recommends $25,000. 302 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:07,500 Their average score also was $25,000, and $25,000 to $30,000 is eligible for up to $25,000. 303 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:15,500 So it's two separate buildings with various addresses, but because it's kind of one project, I was hoping to go through that. 304 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:22,500 So if we had any questions for John, he didn't have to come back up here. 305 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,500 Any questions for John? 306 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:30,500 John, would you mind coming up to the microphone? 307 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:33,500 I guess we can go ahead, Kiwi. 308 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:34,500 Good morning. 309 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:39,500 Good morning. My main question is why did you paint the brick on the outside? 310 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:52,500 Well, the consensus was in our group and the tenants that we currently have that thought the brick was really dated and not, I think it was probably a '60s brick, 311 00:29:52,500 --> 00:30:05,500 brick maybe in '60s, and the color just, nobody liked the color, and it just, it was a yellow color, and we painted the brick. 312 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:18,500 And it kind of matches, if you look across 10 powers, turning in the 940s, everything right there across the street is painted as well, so that's why I'm painting it. 313 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:22,500 I was just a little disappointed to see that, but I can understand why. 314 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:23,500 Yeah. 315 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,500 And it's wonderful. 316 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:34,500 And part of the building down the street on Cedar Street, there's one of the buildings, the 211 North Cedar. 317 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:40,500 I think we're going to leave that. We didn't paint that. It's definitely a little bit older. 318 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:49,500 See the red up there? It kind of sticks out. We thought that looked a little bit more old school. 319 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:58,500 It was definitely built a different type of brick, and we're going to leave that unpainted. 320 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:04,500 Are you, while we're looking at this picture, is that you fixing that awning? 321 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,500 This awning is one of the awnings. We have not replaced it yet. 322 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:16,500 We were going back and forth, whether it was fabric awning or metal awning, and we finally decided that metal was the way to go after experiencing some other problems with fabric. 323 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:25,500 So that is being ordered. They're working on it now in the shop, the welder and the awning guy, and so it'll be replaced in probably a week or two. 324 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:33,500 You'll see it being up, and it's going to match the awning down Cedar Street. 325 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:42,500 So this whole sidewalk area is included in your property, and it's built out for one tenant? 326 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:48,500 No, ma'am. We have right here on the white part of this right here is the photographer. 327 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:55,500 We put a new fence in here, and there's a courtyard back there that we fixed up so he can use it for photography. 328 00:31:55,500 --> 00:32:03,500 Then right here is a financial planner, the one in the green right here. He's there already. 329 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:14,500 And then there is a, down on the white, just on Cedar Street, 207-209 is Micro Brewery called Howling Mutt Brewery. 330 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:23,500 And they're open. They're open for business at night and a few days a week and seem to be doing well. 331 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:26,500 Is that two-story? Yes, ma'am, that's a two-story. 332 00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:33,500 And part of the renovations are, is to, of the cost of renovations, we haven't started on that project. 333 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:38,500 We're focusing on the model project, is to put something up there. 334 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:44,500 I'm not sure why, if it's a little loft apartment or possible. 335 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:50,500 The brewery was talking about putting a lounge up there, so I'm not sure, but there's several options. 336 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:57,500 There's plumbing. We had to do all new electrical. On the whole project, both projects, it was a mess. 337 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:04,500 And all new sewer, plumbing lines, electrical, everything. 338 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:10,500 We did electrical upgrade with the city, new service and everything, so that's all brand new. 339 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:18,500 So let me see if I can frame this right. So the two properties, this was the one on Cedar Street. 340 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:22,500 David Piccolo was already a tenant. He's on the tenant. 341 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:29,500 The photographer is a new tenant, and then they give lease space to the Howling Bud Brewery, 342 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:32,500 which is a new business that's going in there. 343 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:42,500 On Oak Street, on the front, in between the brewery and the gym, is the new clothing store. 344 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,500 Clothing store, Rosen Thorn. Rosen Thorn. 345 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:51,500 So he's taken Sues, which had two employees and added two new businesses. 346 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:54,500 For Hartford, they expanded that whole thing. 347 00:33:54,500 --> 00:34:01,500 And because of the brewery and the clothing store, I had to upgrade, add restrooms, upgrade givers. 348 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:06,500 It's just been a lot of money to make those. 349 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:10,500 I'm very excited to see this kind of investment on this side of the square. 350 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:15,500 I think there's room for growth, and this is the right place to put it. 351 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:20,500 I'm very excited to see you expanding our economic base. 352 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:25,500 Well, thank you. We're excited for them to open. It's been a slow process, but we're excited for them. 353 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:26,500 And the brewery's open? 354 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:31,500 It is open. I think they open at night about a week ago. 355 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:46,500 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights, and then they've just been a week open, so they're trying to determine what their best hours would be. 356 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:54,500 I love that Denton people are reinvesting in Denton, and same thing with the groups that are already here. 357 00:34:54,500 --> 00:35:00,500 Sometimes I'm working with groups in other states that are just kind of buying and turning over, that kind of thing. 358 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:14,500 But that there is more confidence and the care of what they're going to do there and how they're going to behave and give back to the community when it comes to long-time Dentonites that appreciate it. 359 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:16,500 And so that's exciting. 360 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:24,500 Well, if you know Scott Brown, he's very passionate about his projects. 361 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:33,500 One of the, I think, one of the things that came out in the, I don't know if we can go back to that picture of the other building. 362 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:44,500 A lot of, yeah, that one. So the awnings, a lot of the things, the utility upgrades, people don't see those. 363 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:52,500 I mean, when somebody goes in and takes, if you go down Hickory and you look at the mellow mushroom as an example, that was a dirt floor warehouse. 364 00:35:52,500 --> 00:36:00,500 They have to upgrade pipe sizes and add bathrooms. That's why this whole thing is on properties, not businesses. 365 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:08,500 Where the brewery works out or not, that building is now ready to handle the next business that comes in there. 366 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:17,500 So you don't see those kind of things. But those awnings, that's actually spending the money to put in the metal awnings versus the fabric kind of thing. 367 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:26,500 So that's a huge deal. If you've ever been out in the sun or the rain, having those around the square, you find out really quick when they run out. 368 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,500 Yeah, exactly. 369 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:30,500 That's kind of cool. 370 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,500 I think they're also more historically accurate, correct? 371 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:45,500 And I just want to say something, too. One, I love the railing there, but also I'm really glad to see that these interior code improvements are being used. 372 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:52,500 That's one of the things why a few years back I suggested that they become part of this grant because I knew how important it was, 373 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:58,500 especially when investors were coming in and wanting to rehab an old building. 374 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:07,500 And I know that you can't see them and they cost the most. So I'm glad that you're taking note of that here. 375 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:11,500 I think Rosenthorne will be open in a couple of weeks. 376 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,500 What kind of clothing store is it? 377 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:21,500 It'll be a moderately priced, ladies and some men's clothing, a little bit lower probably than JT's down the street. 378 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:24,500 Nice. Great. More variety. Thank you. 379 00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:25,500 Thank you. 380 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:29,500 Any more questions, colleagues? 381 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:46,500 All right. So there are two agenda items there. One is for 216 West Oak for $25,000 was the recommendation, and the other one was for 211 North Cedar for an additional $25,000. 382 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:55,500 Anybody like to make a motion? 383 00:37:55,500 --> 00:38:12,500 I move we approve the recommendations of the Downtown Task Force and give the full amounts of $25,000 on both properties so that we can couple those. 384 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:14,500 You're my man. 385 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:16,500 We need to do it separately. 386 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:21,500 Then I would like to make a friendly amendment to my motion, if that's approved by me. 387 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:26,500 It is to go with the, I guess we start with Oak Street. Is that the first one? 388 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:27,500 The 216 West Oak. 389 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,500 216 West Oak. 390 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:31,500 Who's got a motion and a second? 391 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:32,500 Yes. 392 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:33,500 Any further discussion? 393 00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:34,500 We're on fire. 394 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:36,500 All those in favor say aye. 395 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:37,500 Aye. 396 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:39,500 Any opposed? 397 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,500 Motion carries. 398 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:52,500 And item ADP 19-064 is for 211 North Cedar Street. I'll take a motion on that as well. 399 00:38:52,500 --> 00:39:00,500 I would continue the motion that has been proposed for holding the recognition for that property as well. 400 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,500 For $25,000? 401 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:03,500 Yes. 402 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:06,500 And I will second the motion for Cedar. 403 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:11,500 Any further discussion on that item? 404 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,500 All those in favor say aye. 405 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:14,500 Aye. 406 00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:16,500 Any opposed? 407 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:20,500 All right. Motion carries. Thank you guys for being here today. 408 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:22,500 Appreciate everything you're doing. 409 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:24,500 Thank you so much. 410 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,500 It's exciting. 411 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:27,500 It is exciting. 412 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:38,500 The next item is 19-067, receive report, hold discussion, and appoint or report members of the Downtown Economic Development Committee. 413 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:44,500 And we have an agenda information sheet there. Julie will go over that. 414 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:53,500 Sure. So as you're aware, the committee formerly known as downtown task force is now an official subcommittee instead of a task force. 415 00:39:53,500 --> 00:40:00,500 And they're a subcommittee of this body. And we have talked about this a couple of times in previous meetings. 416 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:05,500 We've done a policy, which is included in your backup on page 171. 417 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:10,500 So we talked about who those members should be. 418 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:26,500 The dedicated, as we're calling it, kind of for shorthand, went through the people that were there that day and then I called a couple of other people that were not in attendance to see if they wanted to continue to serve. 419 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:41,500 So you've got a list at the bottom of 169 of the recommendations from the Downtown Economic Development Committee. So if they are not in bold, that means they've been in the committee and they want to continue. 420 00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:43,500 So that's Peggy Capps. 421 00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:46,500 John Cartwright in bold would be a new person. 422 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:56,500 He is the Main Street Association president. Hank Dickinson, who hits several of these categories. University of North Texas, the Chamber of Commerce, the CBP Board. 423 00:40:56,500 --> 00:41:00,500 Monty Jensen, who is a part owner in Miller Mushroom. 424 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:05,500 Melissa Lenneberg, who owns some buildings downtown and also lives downtown. 425 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,500 Beth Lewis with TMU. 426 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:10,500 Brock McKnight with First United Bank. 427 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:13,500 Nick Miller is a new recommendation. 428 00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:17,500 Nick works for Brandon Martino. He is one of his building managers. 429 00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:23,500 Brandon, due to his travel schedule and his work schedule, has decided he really can't do justice. 430 00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:29,500 He would like to step down, but he would like to remain sort of involved, and that's why he recommended Nick Miller. 431 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:32,500 The Dedic Committee would find that. 432 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:37,500 Bob Moses, Beth Marie's property owner, owns a building and a business. 433 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:40,500 Georgia Ngozi, the creator of Denton Arts Council. 434 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:44,500 Alex Payne with Alex Realty owns multiple buildings downtown. 435 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:52,500 Marty with EDPB, and he will be our chairperson also on the Dedic. 436 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:57,500 And Michael Talley, who is the Denton County Economic Development Director. 437 00:41:57,500 --> 00:42:01,500 That is a new recommendation from that committee as well. 438 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:05,500 Do we have the new people on here agreed to do it? 439 00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:06,500 Yes. 440 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:08,500 Great. 441 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:15,500 One of the things, just participated, I didn't participate in the meeting. 442 00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:24,500 I watched one of the comments where we, so this board's direction was to add somebody from NCTC, the downtown, 443 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:33,500 and somebody with urban planning, the background, and based on the number of people we already had on the committee, 444 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:37,500 and this board limited that committee to 13 people. 445 00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:44,500 We really don't have room to do all of it unless we want to kick somebody off that's been on there, 446 00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:46,500 and we really didn't think we wanted to do that. 447 00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:54,500 So we'll have to work on adding somebody down the road as we put the terms. 448 00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:58,500 So we'll be adding term limits to all of these folks for the first time. 449 00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:02,500 And so as those things come up, we'll start looking to add somebody from NCTC downtown, 450 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:10,500 and try to find somebody with an urban planning background, which may be easier said than done. 451 00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:14,500 We do have some staff members that if we wanted to, we could invite them to those meetings, 452 00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:21,500 and they could be there when items like that come up that might need their expertise. 453 00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:26,500 So we need to accept these members? 454 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:29,500 Or give us new names. 455 00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:32,500 I've got a list. 456 00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:34,500 Just a question. 457 00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:40,500 Nick Miller was okay with being nominated? 458 00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:47,500 I did check with the people that are new, and made sure that everybody was going to serve. 459 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:50,500 I'm excited about Mike and Tali. 460 00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:54,500 I'm kind of surprised he doesn't know what to do with them. 461 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:57,500 He's got a big county to cover. 462 00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:00,500 That's great. 463 00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:06,500 Any questions, comments, or a motion? 464 00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:11,500 I'll make a motion to approve as presented. 465 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:14,500 Do you want to second that? 466 00:44:14,500 --> 00:44:16,500 Second. 467 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:19,500 All right, we've got a motion and a second. 468 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:22,500 Any further discussion? 469 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:24,500 All those in favor say aye. 470 00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:25,500 Aye. 471 00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:27,500 Any opposed? 472 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:28,500 Motion carries. 473 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:31,500 Thank you very much. 474 00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:32,500 Our next item. 475 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:37,500 We're getting all the way down the middle of the alphabet today. 476 00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:40,500 EDP 19-068. 477 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:44,500 Receive a report, hold discussion regarding the city of Denton-Ike development department's 478 00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:52,500 fiscal year-end update and the Chamber of Commerce annual activity update. 479 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:56,500 Okay, I'm going to jump right in and do the Chamber of Commerce. 480 00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:06,500 At home is out of town recruiting prospects this week. 481 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:14,500 All right, thank you this afternoon for this opportunity to present our annual report. 482 00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:16,500 This is going to be all good news. 483 00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:22,500 I'm excited to share with you about all of the successes of our opposite economic development 484 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:23,500 in the past year. 485 00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:26,500 I need my name for the doctor, Ms. Erica Cameron. 486 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:29,500 For those of you who don't know me and those watching at home. 487 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:31,500 I want to remind you that -- let me see. 488 00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:33,500 Can I get a clicker? 489 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:35,500 Okay. 490 00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:40,500 The mission of the Denton Economic Development Partnership is to proactively promote an environment 491 00:45:40,500 --> 00:45:45,500 in Denton to encourage commercial and industrial development by expanding and diversifying the 492 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:48,500 tax base, creating jobs, and improving the quality of life. 493 00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:52,500 As you well know, the city is a partner with the Chamber in this. 494 00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:56,500 We have the public-private partnership, and we are excited about the work that's been 495 00:45:56,500 --> 00:45:58,500 done on this in the past year. 496 00:45:58,500 --> 00:46:03,500 We did have the opportunity to present this to our membership a few weeks ago, and I'm 497 00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:08,500 excited today to help share the story with you. 498 00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:13,500 Over the past year -- and your packet does include a lot of extra metrics and a much 499 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,500 thicker packet, but I'm going to pull out just some highlights for you today and keep 500 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:17,500 it short and sweet. 501 00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:24,500 In this past year, Adam has taken 25 out of -- well, he's gotten onto an airplane 25-plus 502 00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:25,500 times. 503 00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:30,500 This is outside of meetings in Denton and meetings in the DFW area, but he's gone on 504 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:34,500 25 separate marketing trips and opportunities outside of this area. 505 00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:35,500 That's a big haul. 506 00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:40,500 I don't know how often you guys get to sleep in your own beds, but he does not. 507 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:46,500 He logged over 26,000 air miles, taking those opportunities and promoting Denton. 508 00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:50,500 He's out there selling our product, and our product is our community. 509 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:56,500 Anybody notice the lady standing next to Adam up there? 510 00:46:56,500 --> 00:47:02,500 She's our former economic development director here at Denton, Karen Dixon. 511 00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:04,500 Okay. 512 00:47:04,500 --> 00:47:10,500 Adam is on the board of Team Texas. 513 00:47:10,500 --> 00:47:12,500 That's something that also happened this year. 514 00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:17,500 I wanted to pull out a couple of especially impressive numbers out of our successes this 515 00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:18,500 year. 516 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:23,500 Our contract, as you know, requires us to have 42 new leads in a year. 517 00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:27,500 We shot over that by 62% at 68 leads. 518 00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:29,500 You were asking for seven site visits. 519 00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:33,500 We did 11, so we overshot that by 57%. 520 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:39,500 The number of private investors our contract requires is 68. 521 00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:44,500 Again, we went over that by 10% and recruited some new private investment dollars this year, 522 00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:52,500 and those private investment dollars went over the recommended $75,000 to $84,850, an 523 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:56,500 increase of 13%. 524 00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:00,500 Again, I appreciate the support of everyone in this room who continues to tell Denton's 525 00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:03,500 economic story everywhere you go. 526 00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:09,500 Here's a couple of our closed deals, what I want to call our big success stories. 527 00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:17,500 Fisher 59 is opening up a new lead certified bronze facility over 220,000 square feet and 528 00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:25,500 adding an additional 67 jobs and a $31 million investment in the community. 529 00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:29,500 Tyson, this deal looks like a field, but this is happening. 530 00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:35,500 They're coming in with a 350,000 square foot facility adding 100 jobs. 531 00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:40,500 They're a two megawatts, two megawatts, yeah, megawatts. 532 00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:44,500 That probably is like a gazillion watts. 533 00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:48,500 One of our target industries is large utility users. 534 00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:49,500 They'll be doing that. 535 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:56,500 They're basically building a 350,000 square foot freezer and a $97 investment. 536 00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:59,500 Go team. 537 00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:06,500 These properties, you may recognize this, this spoke very loudly to our membership. 538 00:49:06,500 --> 00:49:09,500 Economic development is not what I call walking around knowledge. 539 00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:13,500 Not everybody in the community completely understands how this happens, so we broke it down into 540 00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:14,500 numbers like this. 541 00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:20,500 These three properties before any development had a combined property tax value of about 542 00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:23,500 $95 for the city coming in each year. 543 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:29,500 Now with the development, the top two have been developed, so those have been assessed 544 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:35,500 at now $565,000 plus dollars a year, which that number will increase once Ironwood puts 545 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:37,500 their site facility under two. 546 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:40,500 Those numbers sort of help tell that story in a much simpler way. 547 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:44,500 $95, $565,000 dollars. 548 00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:45,500 More high fives. 549 00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:46,500 Go team. 550 00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:48,500 Thank you all. 551 00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:51,500 As you all know, we're going to keep yelling about this for as long as we can get away 552 00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:53,500 with it. 553 00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:58,500 Adam Spears have nominated him and voted him to be one of North America's top 50 economic 554 00:49:58,500 --> 00:49:59,500 developers. 555 00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:01,500 That includes Canada and Mexico, by the way. 556 00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:04,500 So we're proud of that, and we're going to continue to tell that story. 557 00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:08,500 I did look at the list to see who else in Texas was on that list, and there's only one 558 00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:10,500 other person, and I think they're in San Antonio. 559 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,500 So he's killing it for us up here. 560 00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:21,500 And if you have any questions, I would love to entertain those, or high fives, I can run 561 00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:22,500 around with them. 562 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:23,500 High five. 563 00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:24,500 So where's Adam today? 564 00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:29,500 He's at TEDC, Texas Economic Development Council Conference, Continuing Education, which is 565 00:50:29,500 --> 00:50:34,500 another part of our contract that he would continue to stay certified in the top 50. 566 00:50:34,500 --> 00:50:39,500 He's, remind me where he's going with all the tech. 567 00:50:39,500 --> 00:50:42,500 Portland, Oregon, I believe is the next trip. 568 00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:45,500 He is taking a local tech expert. 569 00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:50,500 I know we talk a lot about technology, and we are using some of our private economic 570 00:50:50,500 --> 00:50:51,500 development investment funds. 571 00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:53,500 We've partnered with a local tech guy. 572 00:50:53,500 --> 00:50:55,500 Some of you may know him, Marshall Culpepper. 573 00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:58,500 He has designed software that goes into space. 574 00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:00,500 That is all I know about that. 575 00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:05,500 But Marshall has some very significant relationships out in Silicon Valley and in the tech industry. 576 00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:09,500 And those of you who have IT support in your companies know that those people speak their 577 00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:10,500 language. 578 00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:16,500 So we partnered with Marshall to take him to a tech-centered development conference 579 00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:19,500 so he can help interpret that language for us. 580 00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:20,500 Great idea. 581 00:51:20,500 --> 00:51:22,500 Yeah, we're excited about that. 582 00:51:22,500 --> 00:51:24,500 Well, and you get on it. 583 00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:29,500 Because we raised more money than we had in the past, we were able to pick some of those 584 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:32,500 wishlist things that we didn't have the budget for to go do that. 585 00:51:32,500 --> 00:51:34,500 So that's important. 586 00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:41,500 And there's a small group of -- well, small and growing group of extremely high-tech folks 587 00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:46,500 here in Denton, and we want to partner with them and support the growth of these companies 588 00:51:46,500 --> 00:51:50,500 that are small now, but they are those higher-paying jobs that we're all looking for. 589 00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:55,500 And as we support that, we anticipate that will turn into much larger endeavors. 590 00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:58,500 See Google, Facebook. 591 00:51:58,500 --> 00:52:01,500 Didn't compute this. 592 00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:05,500 Comments, questions, stuff? 593 00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:07,500 Great job. 594 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:08,500 Thanks, guys. 595 00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,500 Jessica, are you up? 596 00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:15,500 I won't run around into a high five, so I'm up for it. 597 00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:30,500 So I am really excited, more than anyone, that Adam travels so much, because I can show 598 00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:35,500 you what we're able to do while Adam is managing that for us. 599 00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:42,500 So I'll tell you a little bit about what we've done here with the city's economic development team. 600 00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:44,500 So you may be familiar. 601 00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:49,500 You get a report monthly that goes over the city's strategic performance report, and we 602 00:52:49,500 --> 00:52:52,500 focus our work in six key areas. 603 00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:57,500 And those are business development, entrepreneurship, workforce development, the creative sector, 604 00:52:57,500 --> 00:52:59,500 community engagement, and administration. 605 00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:01,500 We have that bonus area there. 606 00:53:01,500 --> 00:53:06,500 Those were metrics that were included in the citywide strategic plan in 18-19. 607 00:53:06,500 --> 00:53:08,500 We've talked about it, and I'll kind of go over it a little bit sooner. 608 00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:12,500 The city doesn't have a new strategic plan, a citywide strategic plan going forward, but we want to 609 00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:17,500 keep those metrics because we think that they're very valuable, and I'll kind of detail what those are. 610 00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:22,500 So I just want to take some time to call out some really impressive numbers. 611 00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:29,500 One is that we had 484 business assistance interactions that we gave in our department. 612 00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:32,500 Breaking that down, we're less than six full-time people. 613 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:39,500 We're 5.75 FTEs, and at 365 days a year, that means that one of us is out helping a business every 614 00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:46,500 single day, which if you kind of hear me walking around our office, I kind of say our job is to help 615 00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:48,500 any business at any time with anything. 616 00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:51,500 If they walk in our door and they ask for help, we're going to give it to them. 617 00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:57,500 And so that's a key focus for me is I actually -- that's great that we hit that, but we can do so much 618 00:53:57,500 --> 00:53:59,500 more going forward. 619 00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:05,500 And so my challenge for the department next year is how do we actually raise that number even further. 620 00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:09,500 We also did 48 on-site BRE visits. 621 00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:17,500 Again, we have two staff members that go on BRE visits regularly, one focused on our primary employers, 622 00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:22,500 our larger employers in some of our key industries, and one focused on downtown. 623 00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:26,500 So we certainly can improve in that area and make sure that we're getting out into the community more. 624 00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:32,500 Myself, being new to this position, have started going on some of the BRE visits to get to know 625 00:54:32,500 --> 00:54:39,500 everybody and what they're doing and hopefully in this next year can really step up and help with that. 626 00:54:39,500 --> 00:54:43,500 We did return 28 RFPs that we received. 627 00:54:43,500 --> 00:54:48,500 We get them from the Dallas Regional Chamber, from the state, and from direct leads. 628 00:54:48,500 --> 00:54:52,500 But one of the most interesting things is a few lines down you'll see that those direct business leads, 629 00:54:52,500 --> 00:54:57,500 those are people that contact the city directly and want to locate here, and we have 20 of those. 630 00:54:57,500 --> 00:55:01,500 So that's a very impressive number as well. 631 00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:06,500 Looking at entrepreneurship, this is one of our most successful areas and also one of our areas that we 632 00:55:06,500 --> 00:55:09,500 really want to focus in in the next year. 633 00:55:09,500 --> 00:55:14,500 As Erica mentioned, we're working a lot with some of our tech and startup groups in this area. 634 00:55:14,500 --> 00:55:20,500 So you'll see a little bit of amendments in the 19-20 draft plan going forward in this area. 635 00:55:20,500 --> 00:55:23,500 But that first one is on our coordination with Stoke. 636 00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:26,500 I meet with them monthly. 637 00:55:26,500 --> 00:55:31,500 We missed one month of meeting and we actually had a teleconference call. 638 00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:36,500 So we didn't count that as a full meeting, but we did have a phone call that one month just to go over 639 00:55:36,500 --> 00:55:39,500 their monthly metrics and reports and activities. 640 00:55:39,500 --> 00:55:43,500 And some new things that we did was co-hosting the Creative Economy Conference. 641 00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:50,500 That was the Flint Conf, if you'll remember, which is planned for next year as well, and we're excited about that. 642 00:55:50,500 --> 00:55:57,500 Hosting a small business resource fair and then finishing up the Stoke contract renewal. 643 00:55:57,500 --> 00:55:59,500 So all of those were accomplished this year. 644 00:55:59,500 --> 00:56:01,500 Jessica, what's HRV? 645 00:56:01,500 --> 00:56:06,500 It's Hickory and Rail Ventures. It's the holding company name for Stoke. 646 00:56:06,500 --> 00:56:14,500 So in workforce development, again, this is a key focus area that you'll see some changes in the 19-20 draft. 647 00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:18,500 I want to have more emphasis on workforce development moving forward. 648 00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:25,500 But one way that we really reach a lot of both our partners through education and industries is through 649 00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:33,500 hosting two job fairs that we partner with, the School District, the Chamber, NCTC, DCTA, 650 00:56:33,500 --> 00:56:38,500 and getting sort of all of the players in the room, and we did that twice this year. 651 00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:43,500 One area that we also work in that's a little bit outside the scope of this board, we also have another board, 652 00:56:43,500 --> 00:56:49,500 our Public Art Committee board that we work with regularly, but know that we're focusing on the creative sector as well. 653 00:56:49,500 --> 00:56:56,500 And we've talked about with this board how important those creative elements are at making Denton an attractive place 654 00:56:56,500 --> 00:56:59,500 to live and work and make people want to stay here. 655 00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:05,500 And you'll see a number of things that are in process and that got held up for a number of different reasons, 656 00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:12,500 but are moving forward now, and that is some of our art location and art projects. 657 00:57:12,500 --> 00:57:17,500 The biggest thing that we did in this area is that we did receive the designation for our cultural district. 658 00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:20,500 So we're very excited about that. 659 00:57:20,500 --> 00:57:26,500 You should have received an invitation because the representatives from the State Texas Commission on the Arts 660 00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:35,500 will be here on October 17 to do our official state proclamation declaring the original Denton District an official cultural district. 661 00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:40,500 And to put that in perspective, there are only 48 cities in the state of Texas that have cultural districts. 662 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:47,500 So out of more than a thousand cities, we're one of only 48. So it's a very impressive accomplishment. 663 00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:51,500 And community engagement, we do this through a variety of ways. 664 00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:59,500 But one of the most shocking numbers to me is that we did 58 presentations where we went and we talked about economic development 665 00:57:59,500 --> 00:58:04,500 in some capacity, whether internal with other departments, with the board or external to the city. 666 00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:13,500 Again, there's only about five of us that make those presentations. So that's about six presentations per person 667 00:58:13,500 --> 00:58:16,500 or about one a week that we're going out and we're talking about economic development. 668 00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:24,500 So that's an incredibly valuable thing that we're out doing is talking about what we do and talking about deaf people. 669 00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:30,500 So in administration, we were really excited to see all of these deals close. 670 00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:38,500 But I kind of wanted to point this out that we had 169 administration incentive administration related activities. 671 00:58:38,500 --> 00:58:44,500 It takes a lot of work to administer the contracts that we have when we do close deals. 672 00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:51,500 Everything from reviewing sales tax and property tax reports, looking at abatement contracts, 673 00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:55,500 looking at contracts, making sure that they're in compliance and that they're monitored. 674 00:58:55,500 --> 00:59:03,500 And we do have a staff member that spends, I would say, 95 to 98 percent of her time just working on administering those contracts. 675 00:59:03,500 --> 00:59:06,500 And it takes a team of people to get those done. 676 00:59:06,500 --> 00:59:12,500 So know that once we kind of sign on the dotted line, our department really gets to work at that point. 677 00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:16,500 So we're excited to keep moving forward with those. 678 00:59:16,500 --> 00:59:22,500 We did include a draft plan for you in your pocket on some changes for 19-20. 679 00:59:22,500 --> 00:59:25,500 Here are sort of the areas that I mentioned. 680 00:59:25,500 --> 00:59:31,500 One thing that we're going to work on is implementation of a new lead and BRE management system. 681 00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:33,500 We've started planning what that will look like. 682 00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:40,500 But what we really hope to do is really enhance communication between my office and the chamber to make sure that we're not duplicating efforts, 683 00:59:40,500 --> 00:59:47,500 making sure that we're working together and that each of us kind of knows where everyone is and who the right contacts are. 684 00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:50,500 We're also working on a corridor redevelopment plan. 685 00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:54,500 That is included as part of the comprehensive plan process. 686 00:59:54,500 --> 01:00:01,500 We're focusing training on entrepreneurship and developing entrepreneurial resources. 687 01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:04,500 Again, that goes back to the tech and startup community. 688 01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:08,500 We've heard a lot of chatter about the need to really reinforce our skill sets in that area. 689 01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:15,500 And certainly we want to take that feedback and enhance the ability of our office to meet the need of the community in that area. 690 01:00:15,500 --> 01:00:20,500 We also have begun working with the United Way, with their workforce success leadership team, 691 01:00:20,500 --> 01:00:26,500 about making sure that the jobs and that when we're bringing employees here and we're bringing companies here, 692 01:00:26,500 --> 01:00:34,500 that we're making sure that they have the backbone support to get funded and to get the training that they need to move up in their careers. 693 01:00:34,500 --> 01:00:37,500 And we're also working on a workforce development work plan, 694 01:00:37,500 --> 01:00:45,500 specifically again to reach out to our partners in the education institutions to make sure that we have employees to meet the needs of our employers. 695 01:00:45,500 --> 01:00:51,500 And then on our creative side, implementing the year one of our cultural district strategic plan, 696 01:00:51,500 --> 01:00:58,500 and then moving forward with that wonderful comprehensive strategic plan, which will take up, as I said, about six months. 697 01:00:58,500 --> 01:01:05,500 So it will be a lot of work that goes into that, and I'm looking forward to all of you being very much involved in that process. 698 01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:08,500 And that's it. 699 01:01:08,500 --> 01:01:10,500 Questions, comments? 700 01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:14,500 Yeah, can you tell us a little bit about the Small Business Resource Fair? 701 01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:20,500 The Small Business Resource Fair? I think Christina, was that the, that was the library? 702 01:01:20,500 --> 01:01:26,500 Correct. So that was one of my very first weeks on the job, so I can't give you a thorough overview. 703 01:01:26,500 --> 01:01:30,500 But what we essentially did was we held an event at South Branch Library, 704 01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:37,500 where we brought in representatives from a number of different city departments to give, 705 01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:42,500 talk to small businesses about what the, what resources are available through the city. 706 01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:44,500 Okay, so specific to the city? Yes. 707 01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:46,500 Okay. Yeah. Thanks. 708 01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:53,500 I will say that week was a blur. That was my very, was my first or second week on the job, but I did go. 709 01:01:53,500 --> 01:02:02,500 Yeah, I just wanted to comment on the business retention visits because I've been invited to go to some of those in my district. 710 01:02:02,500 --> 01:02:11,500 I know that they're trying to invite council members to go to, to be there so that the business owners know that they have a year. 711 01:02:11,500 --> 01:02:19,500 I've really enjoyed going on the ones that I have. I can't, haven't been able to go to all of them, but the ones that I have have been very fulfilling. 712 01:02:19,500 --> 01:02:24,500 Are we having good luck with council members going on those? 713 01:02:24,500 --> 01:02:32,500 Yes, and I will say that's one of the factors in getting them arranged is we're trying to coordinate schedules with very busy council members. 714 01:02:32,500 --> 01:02:40,500 And so sometimes that can be, can be a challenge, but we really want, we think it's important that the council members attend when they can. 715 01:02:40,500 --> 01:02:50,500 And so we do everything we can to, to set the meetings at a time that they can attend. 716 01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:51,500 Do we have questions? 717 01:02:51,500 --> 01:02:53,500 Thank you. 718 01:02:53,500 --> 01:03:02,500 I just want to congratulate you starting only just one month after I started here and comment that coming into a new community, I mean, you were already here, 719 01:03:02,500 --> 01:03:13,500 but coming into a new position or a new position in a new community in coming into this environment where things are already moving and happening and there's a lot of history and there's a lot of plans going forward. 720 01:03:13,500 --> 01:03:21,500 It's a an adjustment period, but I just want to thank you all for helping get me up to speed, helping get Jessica on track. 721 01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:26,500 And when I throw up these numbers and I say, you know, like high five team, I really mean that. 722 01:03:26,500 --> 01:03:35,500 Like you guys did this. Most of this was done before I got here and it started with decisions, you know, that were made and discussed at this table before Jessica or I even got here. 723 01:03:35,500 --> 01:03:46,500 And I just want to say again, I appreciate that and I have really enjoyed my time getting down in the weeds with you all and building those relationships and being brought up to speed and figuring things out. 724 01:03:46,500 --> 01:03:50,500 You guys have been very helpful and I feel very welcome. 725 01:03:50,500 --> 01:04:00,500 That's been a changes of the city and changes of the chamber has been a busy year. 726 01:04:00,500 --> 01:04:05,500 All right, I think that's the last agenda item we've got to talk about today. 727 01:04:05,500 --> 01:04:14,500 Anything that anybody wants to add to our next agenda or discussions. 728 01:04:14,500 --> 01:04:15,500 Thank you for being here today.