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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcoa.cclc.min.02202008COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES February 20, 2008 Chairperson, Terry Butler called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Commissioners in attendance: Mark Goodman, Fred Ayarza, Bill Dinsmoor, Shae Singer and Roger Haneman. John Starr and Don Sheeley were excused. Erich Grueter -Car Share Program. Erich said basically the program is a car cooperative. There is a pool of vehicles parked throughout our town. You have access to use any of the cars first come first serve. There is a monthly fee of $10. In addition hourly and mileage fees are assessed. Presently we have 130 customers. 75 individuals use the cars regularly more than once a week. The pool consists of 9 cars. Terry suggested that there be a designated parking space for each car. Erich said they tried that but the main issue with in town designated spaces is someone always parks there even if it is designated. Bill asked how you deal with those circumstances. Erich said he calls parking and they issue a ticket. Fred inquired about the vehicles. They have 3 Ford focus hatchbacks, 2 Ford focus wagons, 3 Toyota Prius and a pickup truck. Terry asked how someone reserves a car. Erich said you reserve by a phone reservation. Erich said he has two different rate structures hourly and mileage. Fees: Application Fee: $25 Monthly Administration Fee: $10 Hourly Fee: $4.00 Mileage Fee: $0.25 Truck Mileage Fee: $0.35 Daily Rate: Minimum Inconvenience Fee: $70 $20 and up depending on severity Damage Deposit (optional) $100 refundable Damage Fee $500 Lost Key Fee $30 Late Payment Fee $5 Emergency Clean-up $50 Incorrect Trip Ticket Fee $2 Returned Check Fee $25 Vehicle I.D Number (locations subject to change) 001: Toyota Prius: Spring/Hyman 002: Focus Sedan :Rio Grande 1 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES February 20, 2008 003: Focus Wagon :Hunter Creek 004: Focus Sedan :Aspen Business Center 005: Focus Wagon :Centennial 006: Focus Sedan : Paepcke Park 007: Toyota Prius: Burlingame 008: Ford Ranger Pick-Up :Yellow brick (Kids First building) 009: Toyota Prius: TBD Terry said she uses her car less than once a week. Erich informed the board that the program started in 2001. It started as a City Hall employee car share program. It is anon-profit right now and the City is taking over the program. There were some insurance issues as Cirsa wouldn't insure us unless city employees where using. Andrew Kole, public asked is there has been any discussion on expanding the program. Erich said it is expanding and we have two new cars. Fred said not enough people are aware of the program. Terry said she agonizes about paying $400 a month rent to park her car. Mark said there is the question of liability having your own car. Bill said Zip car is a large National business. We should find out what the criteria would be to expand zip cars in our city. On the demand side this is one of the areas if our community got serious it would be impactful. Zip car uses a magnetic strip to open the car and get into it. Shae said there are car share programs for electric cars in existence in other resort areas. We need to reduce cars in our community. We should make it a requirement for employee housing as part of the process to bid you would have only one car and the people would be notified of the electric car program. You could have several cars at one site. Terry suggested having 3 cars at Burlingame due to the amount of housing that is at that site. Mark asked who Roaring Fork Valley Vehicles entity is. Erich said they are anon-profit and are being taking over by the City as of 2008. We need a study on behalf of the community to do this on a much larger scale. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES February 20, 2008 Terry suggested a brown bag lunch to work with Erich and see if the program can be expanded. Erich said he would be happy to work with anyone but he doesn't want to over commit himself. Bill said Erich's father is very talented and possibly he could be contacted. Bill said we need conceptual support from City Council to go forward and research and investigate a business model for the City. Mark asked what zip cars charge. Bill said $10. Erich said Flex cars and the RFVV are modeled after zip cars. The issue with their system is that it is web based. My reservations are by phone based and I'm looking into a phone web base. Andrew asked from 1-10 how effective is the program. Erich said overall it isa6or7. Shae asked what the goal is of the RFV vehicle program. Erich responded to keep people from driving their cars everywhere. It started in Switzerland to use some sort of mass transit and during the day you have the option to use another vehicle instead of mass transit. Erich said they do surveys but mostly it is for customer service. Andrew said the program was to reduce cars down town. They failed to promote the program. Find out the numbers and source users. Terry said we need a light proposal in order to go forward at a work session. Mark asked how much money they are using. Erich said RFVV pays for everything. Bill said in conjunction with Erich we need to know everything about the car share program. Shae said she will work with Erich on a light proposal. Roger said the demographics are important from the users. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES February Z0, 2008 Plum TV Andrew said he is working with Kutcher Miller from Plum TV. They would like to televise the Saturday Market. The basic idea would be to be onsite from 8:00 - 11:00 every Saturday. From 8:00 -10:00 they would do a cut away during the show to the market. They might do 4 cutaways. From 10:00 to 11:00 we could pick a topic and the second cut would be a vendor interview. The show would be broadcast live in the evening and during the week to promote the market. Kathy said they could provide a tent adjacent to the musicians. At the agriculture meeting it was suggested that we have more advertising and this would be a great avenue. MOTION: Fred moved to approve Plum TV televising the Saturday Market; second by Shae. All in favor, motion carried. Election of Vice-chair Bill nominated Mark. Terry nominated Shae. Shae 4 votes, Mark 2 votes. Shae Singer, Vice-chair. Saturday Market update from the agriculture meeting. Kathy reported that some of the agriculture vendors did not like the Saturday market bags because they where too small and some of the vendors did not want to use them. Shae pointed out that the City Council governs the Saturday market and CCLC is mandated to run the market. We need to support the canary initiative. Kathy said the agriculture board would like to give away the existing bags and many of them already do that with large purchase. Kathy also pointed out that it is important that the market support the City in being (green). The board said it didn't matter what kind of bags any of the vendors used but they needed to be recycled. MOTION: Shae made the motion that we require all vendors at the Saturday Market craft and farmers alike to utilize biodegradable or a recycled bag. Motion second by Fred. All in favor, motion carried. 4 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES February 20, 2008 Kathy also said at the meeting it was recommended that the bathrooms be open unti13:30 p.m. The 2009 market end date would be Oct. 17`". The CCLC board had no problem with either one of the recommendations. Kathy also mentioned the discussion of off-site produce. A few of the agriculture vendors said they will just tell their vendors if asked where the produce came from. Kathy said in the past we had an agreement with the agriculture group that all produce that was not Colorado or off-site should be identified by a sign. Patrons pay a lot of money for produce and they support the market. It would degrade the market if items off-site are not identified. Bill said off-site produce has to be identified off farm produce and it needs to be made very obvious. MOTION: Bill made the motion that all farms must identify any produce that they do not produce or grow themselves. It has to be identified where it came from; motion second by Fred. All in favor, motion carried. Shae suggested having a public soap box at the market. Members where unsure until they understood it more. Food demonstration and Food cart. Shae said she knows of two chefs that might want to do a food demonstration two or three Saturdays. Bill said the food demonstration and selling what they made at the demonstration would resolve the issue of selling consumable foods at the market. We had this discuss in the past and selling of food competes with local restaurants. We voted against it in the past. It is a bad idea. If done properly the food demonstration could work. Fred said possibly Whole foods, which is coming soon would be interested in doing the food demonstration. Kathy mentioned a portable food cart. Each agriculture vendor would sign up and sell from the cart or we could hire someone to run the cart. This idea would have to be approved by the City and Environmental Health because presently it is not an allowed use. The board had much discussion about the portable cart. 5 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES February 20, 2008 MOTION.' Bill made the motion that the cart idea not be pursued; second by Fred. 3-2 approved. Bill, Fred and Mark voted yes. Terry and Shae voted no. Roger abstained. Bill said as part of the restaurant community we agreed that we would try not to infringe on the restaurants. Terry said she visited various markets and they have much more food. People would hang around the market longer if food was provided. Fred also said people congregate where food is. MOTION: Fred made the motion to explore the opportunity of expanded food, snack food to include a cooking demonstration; second by Shae. All in favor, motion carried 6-0. MOTION: Terry moved to adjourn; second by Shae. All in favor, motion carried. Commissioner Comments: Mark said the City council has dropped the ball and we are not marketing to our tourists. We need tourist coming to town. Shae suggested we contact the ACRA to find out what they are doing to promote tourism in Aspen. Me~eti~ng adjourned at 11:00 a.m. Kathleen J. Strickland, Chief Deputy Clerk