Greetings and welcome to Friday! November has started up fast and furious (everyone wants to get one final meeting or conversation in before the holidays), hot off the heels of a very lively October conference season. It looks like a rainy weekend – a great opportunity for some long-form comfort cooking and reading a good book by the fire.

 

This week’s update sees incoming OCCC President Marshall Roache added to our distribution list – welcome aboard, and we look forward to collaborating in the years to come!

 

One last thing – if you check this update on your mobile device – can you read it okay? Greg was showing Paul some funky teeny-tiny fonts on his device, but the updates seem to be formatted fine for the staff’s cell phones. Let us know if you are having a challenge!

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • CWEDD – This week, Lincoln County hosted the quarterly Board of Directors meeting of the Cascades West Economic Development District. We (the EDALC team was there in force) met at the Central Coast Food Web (CCFW). The meeting featured a demo of Placer.ai (an AI-powered geocaching big-data tool) by Dave Price and a presentation by CCFW Executive Director Jim King. After the meeting, we got a tour of the CCFW facility and then had lunch at Clearwater. EDALC is proud when we can help Lincoln County step up to the regional stage.
      • OCCC – At this week’s OCCC Board of Education (on Wednesday night) meeting, the BoE formally approved the BSN nursing degree program. Such amazing work went into creating this program and curriculum, and it’s very exciting to have that degree path coming to our local community college. Wednesday was also incoming President Marshal Roache’s first full day as an employee of OCCC.
      • Newport Chamber – On Wednesday the entire team attended the Newport Chamber luncheon at  the Coastal Discovery Center at Camp Gray for some networking, tasty food and Jesse Dolin’s presentation on the re-launch of the Central Coast Food Trail.
      • Central Coast Food Trail/Web – This evening Leslie and Stacie will attend the Central Coast Food Trail Fall Social, and on Saturday Leslie, Stacie, and Sarah will attend the Central Coast Food Web open house in a combination of personal and professional capacities.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • NOAA Economic Impact – Today, Paul and Sarah joined Mark Farley for a project kick-off meeting with the Eastern Research Group. As you may remember, there were still some available hours remaining after the economic impact project, so EDALC extended the contract with ERG until March and they will be working to deep-dive on some specific data points to help Newport better prepare itself for a bid to keep the MOC-P fleet in Newport.
      • Bayocean Aquaculture & Seafood Hub – Today, Sarah and Paul approved a sub-grant request (that went through several revisions after a few Zoom meetings) for Urban Patterns to receive some funding for professional services to help launch the Bayocean Aquaculture & Seafood Hub on Tillamook Bay. When fully operational in 2026, the facility should provide for 16 new jobs and market support for 30 independent commercial fishermen, and several local vegetable, dairy, and seaweed farms.
      • DACUM – With the bids finally in, Worldwide Instructional Design System will be able to provide two DACUM (Developing A CUrriculuM) studies for future certification programs at OCCC in Maritime Tech and Aquaculture. Once OCCC’s Dan Lara officially approves their proposal with his John Hancock, we’ll be able to fund both processes through our CDS award.
  • O2IH Website – The RFP window is closed. We received 13 proposals (2 local, 1 North Carolina, 1 Louisiana, and 9 international) and will be reviewing and selecting a vendor by the end of next week. Stacie and Paul are brainstorming some branding concepts before meeting with a graphic designer to create the logo. The goal is to kick off the website project with the chosen vendor before mid-December.
  • Broadband
      • BDP – This week, the Oregon Broadband Office officially announced the Broadband Deployment Program awardees (about $133M in awards, statewide). Pioneer Telephone Cooperative was awarded $12M (up from $9M that Jim Rennard reported in our last BoD meeting) to provide service to 757 locations in Lincoln and Benton counties. Absent from the list was CTSI (they were on the previous awardee list for $3M) – Paul is trying to get clarification on that and we’ll keep you posted.
  • Core Economic Development Services
  • Community and Economic Development Grant Program – Sarah continued to send out confirmations of application submissions. Paul and Sarah have both been busy answering applicant questions. The grant deadline is EoD on Monday. Paul and Sarah will work to get the proposals and the updated scoring matric out to the board on Tuesday.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings, we’re up to 77 listings in Lincoln County on the site!
  • Community Connecting
      • CTSI Restoration Pow-Wow at Chinook Winds this Saturday! – Celebrate the 47th Annual Siletz Restoration Pow-Wow at Chinook Winds this weekend! Grand Entry begins at 6:00 PM, followed by Traditional dancing, singing, and drumming into the night. Not only is this a wonderful, open-to-the-public opportunity to learn about the Tribe’s History and Cultural Traditions, but the vendors also offer great Holiday gift shopping. The power of the singing, dancing, and rhythm of the drums indoors is incomparable! 
      • See what else Leslie’s been up to this week: November 15, 2024 EDALC CC Weekly Report
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication – Stacie shared relevant community posts in fb/ig stories on Friday and boosted partner posts across all platforms.

 

Reminder (decided upon in our 11/7 BoD meeting):

 

Our December Board of Directors meeting will be on December 12th – NOT December 5th (via Zoom). It’s our annual grant review meeting, and it will give the board one more week to review and score grant applications (and it seems to fit into the attendees December schedules better).

 

Paul will be out of the office on Monday, but Sarah will man the grant station as the final applications come in throughout the day..

 

That’s it for this week. Thanks for ALL that you are doing out there! Keep us posted if you have anything you want us to share, and don’t be stingy with your ideas – we love hearing from you!

 

Cheers,

 

-The EDALC Team (Paul, Sarah, Leslie and Stacie)