Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to December! – only 19 shopping days left until Christmas!

 

As you saw in an earlier post – we’ve temporarily relocated our EDALC offices to the Newport OCCC campus (Room 237). The Waldport campus had some pretty major flooding damage due to a malfunctioning hot water heater (though repairs are well under way). We’re expecting a month or two relocation – the OCCC team has been awesome during the transition!

 

As an FYI, Leslie is on vacation this week, so no new Community Connector info this go-round. Here’s our “three-quarters” team update for this week (and Thanksgiving week):

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • CW COG loan review – Paul reviewed a new loan package for a regional business looking to expand their operations.
      • Lincoln County – Just before Thanksgiving, Paul met with County Administrator Tim Johnson to discuss potential regional fair opportunities, Lincoln County economic development and the possible Safeway/Alberstons/Kroger merger.
  • NOW funded Creative Economies Playbook – Stacie began building out the project on Monday.com with a tentative timeline set for Jan-August 2025.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • North Pacific Consulting – After several meetings with principal Fletcher Conn, EDALC will be contracting him (via CDS funds) on three Blue Economy projects: Feasibility work to explore best uses for unused fish processing facilities at the Port of Girabaldi; Feasibility work exploring a Blue Economy incubator located at Evan Hall’s (Rondy’s Inc.) property on McClean Point in Newport; and a Fishing vessel business plan and financials template to help younger potential purchasers to evaluate a commercial fishing vessel business purchase.
      • Urban Patterns – Paul completed a subgrant agreement with Portland’s Urban Patterns to help facilitate phase 1 development of the Bayocean Aquaculture & Seafood Hub on Tillamook Bay.
      • Prospecting with Rural Prosperity Partners (RPP) – This week, Sarah and Paul created a “project readiness” profile for RPP, focusing on high-priority projects on the other side of our CDS work. Four projects were identified and Paul met with the RPP team today to talk through the possible projects. RPP will use that info to prospect for future EDALC and O2IH funding in the Blue Economy sector.
      • O2IH Website Project – Last week, Paul and Stacie met with Shawn Livengood, a local web developer who was selected to develop the upcoming O2IH website. The project will officially kick off next Friday.  Stacie built out the project in Monday.com and is using this project as a test case for collaborating with non-EDALC stakeholders in the platform.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Adult Pitch Event – Paul met with Jason Hartmann (thanks to an introduction from Gregory) of the Mid-Columbia Economic Development District. They have run an adult (as opposed to the YEP youth program) pitch event for several years and Jason provided an overview of how they set up their event and shared all of their materials with EDALC.
  • YEP – Sarah created the first video for the Youth Entrepreneurship Program that the Oregon Coast SBDC is starting up again in January. 
  • Cascades West Innovation Hub – Groundwork Stage Project – Stacie began building out the project on Monday.com and drafted an agenda for the 12/18 kickoff meeting with Susan Patterson (CWCOG) and the other sub-contractors.
  • Core Economic Development Services
  • LC Economic Development Grant Program – Sarah confirmed the applying organizations did not have any back taxes due to the county and any applicants that had previous awards submitted their final reports to the county. 
  • Lincoln County Economic Summit – Sarah worked on ideas for speakers and created the reach out emails for the resource tables, speakers, and pillars of the local economy videos. She also worked on the Lincoln County Civic Lexicon that will be included in the packets and started a save the date promo video. Paul completed work on an event graphic that will be used for marketing and such, using this year’s event tagphrase: “New, Blue & Buoyant.”
  • Community Connecting
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
        • Stacie began working on the EDALC holiday newsletter and shared relevant community posts in fb/ig stories on Wednesday and Friday (So many holiday events!)
  • Project Work
        • Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and checked old ones to make sure they are still active. 
  • Admin
      • Team meeting 12/5 – There’s much to do and an office relocation isn’t slowing us down. In addition to all of the external projects, the team will be completing self-evaluations and reviewing/revising job descriptions in the coming weeks.

 

Reminder: our December Board of Directors meeting will be on December 12th – next Thursday – via Zoom. It’s our annual grant review meeting. Please get your scoring sheets to Paul by EoD December 10th. Here’s the Zoom meeting link:

 

Topic: EDALC December Grant Review Meeting

Time: Dec 12, 2024 03:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9178104987?pwd=bVJDN0VlUEM3aG9EaFhJQUZjcDJHUT09&omn=85691593872

 

Meeting ID: 917 810 4987

Passcode: 0NyksK

 

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)