Greetings and welcome Friday! 

 

Paul is back on the team today, but still has a little “vacay brain” and a pile of emails to plow through… but assures us all that the escape to the Big Island was very therapeutic, and he’s now an expert in tide-pool watching and pina colada blending.

 

If anyone is up for some light reading (/s) this weekend, the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for 2025-2030 is now available for public comment. As a reminder, the CEDS is a five-year roadmap for improving economic conditions and resiliency within Linn, Benton, Lincoln and Lane counties. This document is also required to tap into critical sources of federal funding for infrastructure and business development.

 

The plan and comment survey can be found at bit.ly/CEDS-2025. The public comment period will run from 7/11/25 to 8/10/25. 

 

Here’s the staff update for the week:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
  • ART Toledo – Sarah continued to coordinate the Art, Oysters & Brews event – sending out logistical emails to vendors, marketing coordination, plus another mailchimp email to potential art vendors. She and Stacie attended + led the committee planning meeting on Wednesday. Stacie created an ad for Oregon Coast Today as well as another social media post to promote the event.
  • City of Toledo –  Stacie attended the first of the Community Conversations series organized by the Toledo Public Library and funded by the Oregon Humanities Grant for Rural Libraries. She received a fascinating, albeit abridged, education on the history of Toledo from local historians and author Ted Cox.
    • Entrepreneurship
      • Sarah coordinated final details with the TZOM film crew, the final “No Wrong Place to Start” Business Oregon video should be ready in a week or so!
    • Core Economic Development Services
  • Major Employers Report – Sarah continued to work on the major employers report.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and added new ones.
    • Community Connecting
      • Emails, Scheduling, Texts, Planning, and Drafting – This week was filled with correspondences, document drafting, event planning, scheduling, researching, and all the other behind-the-scenes tasks that come along with juggling and supporting multiple collaborative, cross-sector efforts. Good news: at least 4 more potential funding-aligned projects were pitched to Leslie/EDALC by partner organizations this week! Leslie’s looking forward to discussing all the opportunities with the EDALC team after Paul returns and emerges from his post-vacation catch up phase. 
      • See Leslie’s full weekly update here: July 18, 2025 EDALC CC Weekly Report
      • Community Connector Weekly Report Archives 2024+
    • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
  • Stacie completed most of the summer newsletter and shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels – including the CEDS public comment details – as well as the usual Friday roundup of central coast goings on. 


  • Admin
  • Catching Up – Paul worked through the team’s Slack channels to get caught up with the last two weeks’ worth of team work, plus worked through several hundred emails and feels like he’ll be ready to hit the ground running come Monday.
    • Stacie and Sarah fielded as many emails/requests as they could while Paul was on vacation 🙂

 

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 – we love hearing from you! Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Cheers,

 

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