Greetings and welcome to Friday! Remember that Sunday is Father’s Day – always a worthy excuse to slow-cook some delicious ribs!

 

Here’s our update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
  • Lincoln City
        • Paul attended the Lincoln City Brownfields Advisory Committee meeting (with fellow EDALCer Tracy Bailey) on Monday. We helped review upcoming public outreach efforts and talked through a property-owner application for Phase 1 analysis.
  • Newport
        • Paul presented the airport business user survey report to the Newport Airport Committee on Tuesday at Newport’s City Hall. He also presented an analysis of potential revenue based on reported business usage and desired price point (about $500K-$700 possible annually in ticker revenue).
  • ART Toledo – meeting, AOB music
  • Sarah attended the ART Toledo meeting on Thursday, sent out a chalk the block event newsletter and press release, and updated the ART Toledo website. She also created another Art, Oysters & Brews newsletter and Stacie made a postcard handout to recruit more local artists to be vendors at the event. 
        • Paul nailed down most of the logistics for the musicians for the two-day event. The City of Toledo is providing some funds, which we’re matching with ROI grant dollars.
        • Stacie shared Chalk the Block event info on social media
      • YBEF


  • Blue Economy/O2IH
  • NOAA grant work
  • Sarah continued to review some past documents about O2IH and Blue Economy development to get some verbiage and data that can potentially be used in the upcoming NOAA grant application. In addition, she gathered bios for each of the partner organizations and joined the partner planning meeting. She also assisted the Central Coast Food Web with interviews for their executive director position.
      • Paul and Sarah met with Mark Farley to talk through the narrative we’re developing for the Climate Resilience Accelerator grant application. We’ll wrap that up early next week. Paul and Sarah also attended a partners meeting on grant progress and upcoming deadlines and tasks,.
    • Paul met with Sherry DeLeon of Rural Prosperity Partners to get an update on grant prospecting and the progress of our 501(c)(3) creation for O2IH.

  • Entrepreneurship/ROI
    • Paul attended a Rural Opportunity Initiative workshop today for member communities (19 in the state). The workshop focused on the specifics of grant activity reporting (Business Oregon is breaking in some new online tools) and talking about the consulting that’s available to member communities through Kelly Consulting.
    • Paul completed a DEI survey related to the anticipated work that will be done through the Cascades West Innovation Hub (funded through a grant from Business Oregon).

  • Community Connecting

 

  • On Wednesday, Leslie and Paul spent a few hours refining the “Take Action Lincoln County” web portal for the CTSI Pow-Wow dance sponsorships. The draft (it’s almost finished) website went out to CTSI for review – the first feedback has been super-positive. The hope is to make it live next week.

 

  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
      • Most of the EDALC team (plus a few EDALC friends) attended the Newport Chamber’s Night at the Aquarium event. Of course, EDALC had THE fun table! See facebook for pictures.
      • Stacie created an ad for the 2024 Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce Directory, and continued work on brand guidelines.
      • Stacie shared posts from towns/orgs across Lincoln County to EDALC Facebook and Instagram stories, shared industry news to LinkedIn,  and is committing to a Friday social media roundup moving forward.

  • Project Work
  • Sarah continued to reach out to local businesses for their employment numbers for the Major Employers report. 


  • Admin
    • Stacie created a website audit tracker, reviewed accessibility evaluation options (audit to be completed by end of July), updated newsletter archives, and started learning how to leverage Google Analytics to inform our communication efforts.

 

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! Have a wonderful Father’s Day weekend! Paul will be off on Monday, but Sarah will be holding down the fort if you need anything.

 

Cheers,

 

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