Economic Development – Monthly Report – July 2023

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Internal projects: 

  • Permanent Outdoor Covered Structures grant program:  The status of the first round of this program is reviewed semi-monthly at the City of Sandy Ec Dev Advisory Board meeting – here is the status of the program as of July 2023:
    • Tollgate Inn – Project rebid underway.  Scope of work and plan distributed to three local contractors.  Bid deadline is Wednesday, August 16th at 3PM.
    • All other projects are now structurally complete and under contract.
  • Three applicants from the first round of this program have already completely satisfied the financial responsibilities for the applicant portion of their project.
  • Covered Structures Round 2:  Designs for the second round of the City of Sandy Covered Structures grant program were reviewed at the SURA and City Council meetings on January 3rd, 2022.  Round 2 of the Covered Structures Program was completed in March of 2023.
  • Sandy Comprehensive Plan: 

    • Tabling at the Sandy Mtn Festival:  Sandy’s Ec Dev Manager assisted representatives from 3J Consulting in gathering data on Saturday, July 8th in the City Hall parking lot.  Feedback was a bit more sparse than staff was hoping for, but good data was collected at this event.
    • CAC Meeting #7: The 7th Community Advisory Committee was hosted in Council Chambers at 6:30 PM on July 13th with staff assistance.  Community members included members of the Sandy PD, Clackamas Fire, the OTSD and Clackamas County Disaster Management.  Excellent feedback at this event, especially from Clackamas Fire and ClackCo DM.
    • The next project event is:  Tabling at the Mount Hood Farmer’s Market on Friday, August 11th.
Tabling at the 2023 Sandy Mountain Festival


Economic Development items:

Econ Devl – Commercial Properties (vacancies, new businesses, reports, etc.):

  • New business – 38888 Pioneer Boulevard:  This building was recently purchased by Marlin Good, an Estacada businessman.  Mr. Good is currently discussing a lease with a couple that would like to set up another daycare facility at the site – this couple currently operates a similar facility in Damascus. 

Econ Devl – Internal Projects:

Downtown maintenance:

  • Flower baskets:  Holding steady – our watering crew seems to have the watering, fertilizing and application of petunia bug insecticide down to a science now.  Surprisingly, we have yet to lose a basket this year to a collision with a big rig. 
  • AF Downtown Maintenance:  Preparing to start work on the second tranche of work – work to include weeding planter strips at 7-Eleven, the back of the VFW, the empty lot next to Meadowlark Ski & Snowboard and the Small Change Car Wash, cleanup of the Farmer’s Market lot and removing suckers from the street trees on Pioneer/Proctor.


Econ Devl – Economic Development Advisory Board:

There was no EDAB meeting in July.  The next meeting has been delayed until September 2023 due to the summer break.

Econ Devl – Conferences/training:

There were no conferences or training opportunities for Economic Development in the month of July.