{"id":561,"date":"2023-07-07T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/?p=561"},"modified":"2023-07-07T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T00:32:18","slug":"economic-development-monthly-report-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/2023\/07\/07\/economic-development-monthly-report-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development \u2013 Monthly Report \u2013 June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Internal projects<\/strong><\/em><strong>:&nbsp; <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Permanent Outdoor Covered Structures grant program<\/strong>:\u00a0 The status of the first round of this program is reviewed semi-monthly at the City of Sandy Ec Dev Advisory Board meeting \u2013 here is the status of the program as of June 2023:<br><br><ul><li>Tollgate Inn \u2013 The applicant has decided that he would like to rebid the project due to the fact that the winning bidder added 42% to the overall materials and labor cost after winning the bid.\u00a0 Staff and design professionals agree with applicant and will put this project out to bid again in July.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All other projects are now structurally complete and under contract.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Three applicants from the first round of this program have already completely satisfied the financial responsibilities for the applicant portion of their project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Covered Structures Round 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 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 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2022.\u00a0 <strong>Round 2 of the Covered Structures Program was completed in March of 2023.<\/strong><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sandy Comprehensive Plan:\u00a0 <\/strong>The next events to occur for this project are as follows:<ul><li>Tabling at the Sandy Mtn Festival:\u00a0 Sandy\u2019s Ec Dev Manager will be assisting representatives from 3J Consulting on Saturday, July 8<sup>th<\/sup> (11a-2p) in the City Hall parking lot.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><br>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>CAC Meeting #7<\/strong>: 3J Consulting will be holding the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Community\u00a0Advisory Committee in Council Chambers at 6:30 PM on July 13th with staff assistance.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Economic Development Strategic Plan:&nbsp; <\/strong>The plan is now complete and under review by the Economic Development Advisory Board.&nbsp; After taking an initial look at the plan and analyzing starting points, it appears that the Board is most interested in starting with the action items listed below in the Ec Dev Advisory Board section of this report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Economic Development items:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><u>Econ Devl &#8211; Commercial Properties (vacancies, new businesses, reports, etc.)<\/u><\/em>:<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>New business \u2013 38888 Pioneer Boulevard:&nbsp; <\/strong>This building was recently purchased by Marlin Good, an Estacada businessman.&nbsp; Marlin is looking to rehab this building and then turn it into a commercial rental property.&nbsp; In June, we heard from a couple of businesses that may be interested in leasing this space \u2013 one was a day care center.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em><u>Econ Devl \u2013 Internal Projects<\/u><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downtown maintenance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Flower baskets:&nbsp; <\/strong>They seem to be holding steady again this year.&nbsp; AntFarm has had some minor staff shakeups recently, but this has not seemed to affect the crews that do work for the City of Sandy (flower basket watering, downtown maintenance, homeless encampment removal, etc.) in any way.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AF Downtown Maintenance<\/strong>:&nbsp; Work on the first tranche is still in process and has progressed in fits and starts, but this is acceptable as the high visibility work has been completed already.&nbsp; As always, if you have any general downtown maintenance issues you would like to see addressed this season, <strong>please let us know<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><s><u><br><\/u><\/s><\/em><em><u>Econ Devl \u2013 Economic Development Advisory Board<\/u><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EDAB Meeting &#8212; June 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023: &nbsp;At the June 7<sup>th<\/sup> meeting of the Economic Development Advisory Board, the board welcomed new member Marcel Brache of AEC, who was selected to fill one of our two board vacancies.&nbsp; New member Robbie Walters will join us at the next scheduled meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary focus of this meeting was to dive into the newly completed Economic Development Strategic Plan and start to identify places to start making headway.\u00a0 The board suggested looking at the 12 action items that CAI labeled as \u201chigh priority\u201d and start with these items.\u00a0 Specific items discussed include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Action 6.1.2 (retail market survey):&nbsp; Chair &#8211; clarification on whole city vs. areas of focus (whole city); \u201cthis has to get done\u201d \u00e0 board members strongly agree with this; this is a high priority \u00e0 funding needed; do we need to go through the RFP process for this?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action 2.2.2 (SandyNet marketing):&nbsp; Identify partnerships with economic development partners\u2026and distribute marketing collateral communicating the benefits of SandyNet to remote workers and other target audiences \u00e0 new construction in West Sandy; what are home businesses looking for?; multi-gig connections now offered\u2026is there a market for this?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action 5.3.4 (downtown park):&nbsp; This just went through City Council recently and was approved to move forward<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action 5.1.1 (new hotel):&nbsp; Now is the time for us to start looking for this (Hans); Loge Hotels suggested by Elliot and looks super cool (?); are there other opportunities like Loge out there?; (Hans) lodging lobbying groups out there (ClackCo Tourism (Samara, a few hoteliers on the county tourism board), Travel Oregon (Scott Bricker))<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action 5.2.4 (outdoor recreation marketing):&nbsp; The ClackCo CPP grant program is gone, but being replaced by the SIP grant; we have a project concept ready for Vision Around the Mountain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action 1.1.4 (child care):&nbsp; Mayton emphasizes how important this point is; Khrys, Jeremy agree \u00e0 we are still significantly underserved in this capacity; there is a lot of money available out there for this topic right now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em><u>Econ Devl \u2013 Conferences\/training<\/u><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no conferences or training opportunities for Economic Development in the month of June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal projects:&nbsp; Economic Development items: Econ Devl &#8211; Commercial Properties (vacancies, new businesses, reports, etc.): Econ Devl \u2013 Internal Projects: Downtown maintenance: Econ Devl \u2013 Economic Development Advisory Board: EDAB Meeting &#8212; June 7th, 2023: &nbsp;At the June 7th meeting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/2023\/07\/07\/economic-development-monthly-report-june-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}