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Committee
2nd Floor Conference Room
City Hall
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Members: Staff:
Council member White Sara Watkins, Assistant City Attorney
Council member Guti&rrez Scott Schafer, Public Works Director
Cally Price, Assistant to the City Manager
Executive Minutes
White called the meeting to order.
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Jonathan Smith
Andrew Holt
Joe Mann
Verlynn Best
Luz Guti6rrez
John Cooper
Jerry Malon
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1. Review draft minutes from May 2, 2019 meeting:
The May 2, 2019 meeting minutes were reviewed. Guti6rrez motioned to accept the
minutes as presented and White seconded. Motion passed.
2. Discussions:
a. Downtown destination — White believes Council needs to review its priorities and talk
about what downtown destination means to them. He will discuss this with Council at
the June 4 meeting.
b. Economic Development Plan
i. Competitiveness
1. Private sites — No report
2. City sites —. No report
3. Mill site — Watkins reported that Joan Davenport will be giving the
Council a mill site update at the Council briefing on Tuesday.
4. Public Port Authority — Best reported that invitations had been sent out
for a meeting in June. If anyone is interested in being added to the
mailing list they should contact her.
5. Incentives — This discussion was moved to the June meeting.
6. Education Alignment —.Smith reported that he met with the committee
members and they determined that community colleges were not
included in the list of programs. The committee will be adding
community colleges before it is posted at the end of June. Currently
there are 129 programs being tracked.
7. YKM — No report
8. Convention Center — Cooper reported that an architect has been
selected and they are working on the design and engineering. He
anticipates the project will go out for bid this fall with construction
possibly starting in 2020. Cooper reviewed with the committee
members a generic version of the rendering which includes more
natural features and will add approximately 18,000 SF.
Traded Sector
1. YKM —No report
2. Clusters — No report
iii. Community pride — No report
3. Staff and Partner Announcements
a. Draft Vacant Building Ordinance — Watkins reviewed a draft vacant building
ordinance with the committee members. There was discussion about what the
committee members wanted in the ordinance, who would be responsible for
enforcing the violations, who would be responsible for establishing the register.
After discussion the committee members agreed that Watkins should research fees
and what the city can legally charge for violations. Watkins will also look at options
for aesthetics and encouraging turnover.
White stated there is a lot of work still to be done and that he believes the ordinance
should be focused on the CBD rather than city-wide and should include both
commercial and residential properties. White will discuss the draft ordinance with
Council at the next business meeting.
b. YCDA and City GIS Systems — Smith reported that he scheduled a meeting with city
information systems staff to talk about the GIS systems and will update Council at
the June 18th City Council meeting.
c. Arts District — Watkins will invite the Makers Space director to the June meeting.
4. Future agenda items
a. Downtown Master Plan (include plan in packet)
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No other business items were discussed.
L. Guti6rrez would like to see more event posters • place in the downtown core
and also suggested the committee take a walking • of the downtown to i•I at vacant
buildings.
Jason White, Chair