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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcclc.min.091802 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 Chairperson Bill Dinsmoor called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Cormnissioners in attendance: Terry Butler, Eric Cohen, Jon Busch, John Starr, Andrew Kole and charles Kennedy. Lyndy Palmer presented her vending product to the board requesting to be in the Saturday market the rest of the season. The board unanimously accepted her painted furniture. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS Barry Gordon came and talked about a winter festival with the Dickens Caroler's. The idea would be a shopping venture. He suggested starting the 1st Friday after Thanksgiving and then again three days before Christmas. The board suggested Barry go to the ACRA with a presentation. John said this idea clearly falls within the CCLC scope and possibly the advertising could come out of the CCLC budget. The board gave Barry numerous ideas as to how to set up his membership and ideas as to how to pull the event off. Eric gave an update from the P&Z meeting. The infill report recommends the elimination of office use on first floor commercial core real estate. P&Z will go through the process to determine if there are any issues that will not work with zoning and then proceed to council. OVERVIEW OF MARKETING COORDINATOR Andrew and Eric met with the ACRA. In the compromise 50% of Paul Rossi's time would go toward develoPment of sponsorships and $20,000 would be set aside for new events. The stumbling block was determining who is in charge if Rossi fails. The suggestion was if it fails by March 3 1st ACRA would pUt $40,000 out and make it available to a group to hire an independent contractor to work on sponsorships. John said the ACRA has a committee of three and they put the talking points on the table and at the end we agreed to get together again and come to a closure on the matter. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTESOF SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 Bill said they then recommended two levels of sub-committees, the special event committee which Rick Jones chairs including two CCLC representatives with a $20,000 budget out of ACRA's marketing to produce two new summer time events based on the special event committees recommendation. The recommendation would then go to the marketing committee. If there is surplus money left over from the bed tax that money could be used for the marketing advisory committee. ACRA would invite the CCLC chair to be a member of the marketing committee. Bill said the concerns were that the 50% of staff time is not specifically identified. Bill said the CCLC representatives would prefer that it be a person rather than a group: There is no one in the ACRA that has the expertise. Terry said if she had Paul's job she would be a go-getter and make over $100,000. She also feels that the ACRA is negative about the entire sponsorship issue and it seems to be a waste of time. She also said the proposal is nebulas and she will not vote for it. John mentioned to the ACRA the concern of commitment and John Sarpa relayed that they are interested and more supportive. Jon said the CCLC needs to keep on top of the ACRA to make sure that the projects are successful and then they will be on board. Charles suggested we put a letter in the paper disclosing the compromise and asking the community to keep an eye on it. Bill said it ended up that we have 50% of Rossi's time plus $20,000 to produce two new events based on the recommendations of the advisory groups. John said we got what we could get. There maybe a problem but the CCLC has done the best we can. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 Eric said he wanted city council to look at the two different ways to spend the money but the de-compromise diluted that and the discussion was about the managing of the compromise. Eric said we should go back to present to city council Andrew's refocus and ask council to determine how the money is to be spent and the time allocation. We need to go to the ACRA with the refocus and state this is what we are also going to tell city council. Eric felt the proper place is the ACRA. If council agrees, direct ACRA to spend it or have the powers to be come up with a plan. Jon said at this point we are stuck with a compromise. CCLC needs to have agreement about the criteria for review performance. Andrew proposed a series of four issues for the ACRA to pick from. 1. Andrew said an ombudsman should be appointed which would be a volunteer position. 2. $20,000 for new events, which the ACRA already committed to. Rick Jones's committee could oversee the events. 3. Ask for $20,000 for local events and that money to come out of the bed ~a×. 4. Sponsorship sales person - Should be a salary commission and overhead. MOTION: Andrew made the motion to go back to ACRA and present the four point plan; second by Eric. Andrew- yes John - No Jon- No Charles - No Eric - yes Terry - yes Bill - yes Motion carried 4-3. COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2002 COMMISSIONER COMMENTS John requested staff to look at the Proda windows and lighting to see if they are in code violation. Jon requested the sign code ordinance. He also asked for the 2002 balance and 2003 budget. Terry requested someone for Environmental Health at the next meeting and an assistant city manager to discuss noise and trash, Jon said the city could force trash collection in the evening and prohibit dumpsters in the commercial core. MOTION: Bill moved to adjourn; second by Eric] :ill in favor. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 110 a.m. Kathleen J. Strickland, Chief Deputy Clerk 4