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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcclc.min.091918 1 REGULAR MEETING COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 Chairperson Steve Fante opened the meeting at 8:41 a.m. Commissioners in attendance: Steve Fante, Terry Butler, Amanda Tanaka, Kiki Raj, Charles Cunniffe. Absent were: Angi Wang and Bill Dinsmoor. Staff present: Nicole Henning, Deputy City Clerk Mitch Osur, Parking Services Director Special guest: Ward Hauenstein COMMISSIONER COMMENTS: Ms. Tanaka said she’s working on the newsletter. She interviewed Kemosabe for the first edition as the highlighted business and will forward the info to Ms. Henning for editing. Mr. Cunniffe mentioned the dates for CCLC are wrong in the newspaper and are off by one week and have been since July. Ms. Henning will notify Ms. Rapkin in the manager’s office and get this fixed. Ms. Butler asked why the city pays too much for everything and Mr. Cunniffe said he feels it’s sometimes citizen driven. Ms. Butler said she noticed an article for voting on the new city building in the newspaper. She asked what happen to a vote for “do nothing”? Mr. Cunniffe addressed the vote on the city building and said that all properties, employees, departments, etc. were studied for two years before a site was chosen. Overall, they looked at 14 sites and narrowed it down to 8 after 50 some public meetings. The public chose to repurpose the Armory building and the city would build a one roof solution and that is the right thing to do, such as the county did. Everything is in the same place and that is what the city needs on property they already own. Mr. Hauenstein explained the options being presented on the ballot to the board, which are to be voted on. Mr. Osur said the city must fight this with one hand tied behind their back and they can’t really get the real story out. Mr. Hauenstein suggested that someone needs to come up with a committee for the Galena parcel to be promoted because the city can’t do that. Regarding the business deal with Mark Hunt, Ms. Raj said we are not doing welfare for rich people. Mr. Hauenstein said that when the city entered into the contract with Mr. Hunt, we gave him the opportunity to set the best price to sell to the community. He gave us more time, but did not offer less money. The whole board expressed their support of the offices being at the Rio Grande. Mr. Hauenstein said we should focus on integrating the offices with the John Denver Sanctuary. It’s the most common sense to develop on property that the city already owns. Ms. Butler said Hopkins should stay retail and said someone needs to get the word out because the newspapers make things very foggy. 2 REGULAR MEETING COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 Mr. Osur said if CCLC agrees, you can take a stance on this and put out a press release to the newspapers and add it to the CCLC newsletter. Mr. Osur read Ordinance 43 from 2007 to the board regarding CCLC’s mission statement. Ms. Raj said she will do the bones of the letter and Mr. Cunniffe will add in the facts. Ms. Tanaka gave a preview of what is to come on the CCLC newsletter and said there will be an introduction to CCLC with the mission, who we are, etc. The next part is the City news and this edition will be about the sandwich boards and bridge updates. We want this to go out at the end of September and we did a spotlight on Kemosabe as the highlighted business. We will also offer off-season business tips, contacts for out of town customers, consignment box programs, updates to the store, local offers from other businesses in town, etc. Mr. Osur said to list the names of all CCLC board members and business contacts in the newsletter with email addresses and to list him as the city liaison with his contact info. Ms. Tanaka said the last part will be a poll potentially asking what their preferred method of receiving this newsletter is, what they are interested in, parking changes, core changes, fill in blank, arts/events, how do you feel about food trucks, mac n cheese event, etc. We will print out the newsletter for the first round (if possible) and have Ms. Tanaka and Mr. Fante distribute to the businesses and use this as a way to collect their email addresses so we can send out via email next time. Mr. Osur said we still need to speak with Jim True on getting an email list from the city. Mr. Fante brought up the sandwich boards and said this is one of the issues of which he feels city staff did not do the necessary outreach. We received a memo just before the ordinance was to be adopted and no one came to CCLC prior to the ordinance being adopted. Mr. Fante said he found out after the fact, that they had a chance to come to council and state their opinions and he is upset that Mr. Supino didn’t state the real facts to city council. Ms. Tanaka said a lot of people were upset about this. Mr. Hauenstein said it’s not the only issue we’ve had since Mr. Frisch went off about the lack of outreach regarding the mobility lab as well. On the 24th will be the second reading on the sandwich board issue at the council meeting and Mr. Hauenstein said he would like to see a solution instead of kicking it down the road for another year. Mr. Fante said it’s a complicated issue to get people engaged in when there are so many other pressing issues going on. Moving on, Mr. Fante mentioned to Mr. Osur that CCLC needs money for the welcome baskets. Mr. Osur said he has a couple thousand bucks he can throw at it and asked Ms. Butler to stop into Michael’s or Hobby Lobby when she goes to Grand Junction and grab 20 or so baskets so we can have them ready to go by November 1st. Ms. Henning will put together a list of supporters for the basket and send out an email to CCLC of who we have so far and who they would like to add. Mr. Osur mentioned Local’s Coffee. Ms. Tanaka said that Ms. Wang is working on a “who to contact list”, which she has ready to go. Mr. Fante brought up expectations vs reality of CCLC. He said that we originally started off with six projects and we’re now down to two after six months and we’re still not complete with any of them. There are issues getting in the way of us completing projects since we only have three hours a month and we don’t get started until quarter of 9 so we really have less than three hours a month. I’d like to define what this means, moving forward. How are we helping the community through these discussions 3 REGULAR MEETING COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 which are off agenda? It’s our job to help the community, so we need a more solid concept of what we are trying to accomplish. We want to encourage groups to come speak to us so we can communicate to the public. He said we should limit presentations to 30 minutes. Ms. Henning said she can get a timer to use for these presentations and we will have questions after the presentation for 30 minutes. Ms. Henning notified the board that she will send them info on the farmers market app in November so they can look it over and make a decision on it by the first meeting in December. Mr. Fante discussed how much time should be set for old business vs new business to avoid the typical rambling. Mr. Osur suggested that we start the meeting with old business and get to the new after, much like City Council does. MOTION: Mr. Fante motioned to approve the minutes from August 15th, Ms. Tanaka seconded. All in favor, motion carried. Mr. Osur mentioned the 6th of October and said there will be a mall festival for the 42nd year of the mall. The mall will get an award, which is a big deal and it’s also Columbus Day weekend and the last day of the Saturday market. The festival will run Friday through Monday and there will be relaxed rules. There will be sandwich boards, on sale clothing outside of stores and other fun things to try to bring in some vitality. If it works, we will do this every year, and anyone is welcome to contribute. Next year, hopefully we can have the entertainment district up and running so we can also have beverages. We will run a full-page ad in the newspapers to advertise free parking for the whole weekend, etc. A lot of people will be in town that weekend and there will be events between 11-2, such as, games, speeches, ribbon cutting, etc. This will be open to everyone in the city to participate and the City will give away 10,000 worth of prizes. People will visit the ACRA booth to join the raffle. There will be gift cards from restaurants, golf course passes, ski passes, etc. He closed the meeting by letting the board know that sales for the past month were up 9% and he will share the numbers at the next meeting. Meeting adjourned at 10:01 a.m. ____________________________________ Nicole Henning, Deputy City Clerk