Greetings and welcome to the last Friday in August! Also, to a three-day Labor Day weekend and the wind-down of the summer tourist season. Get those grills pre-heated!

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
  • Central Coast Food Web – Paul, Stacie and Sarah met with Jim King to discuss an exciting potential project to develop a space for a winter farmers market in Newport that includes some more permanent stalls for pop-ups and local fish and farm businesses. The team is helping Jim make some essential connections and plans to get this project underway. 
  • City of Lincoln City – Sarah and Leslie worked on updating a report for the City of Lincoln City on EDALC’s events and efforts in the area for Paul to present to their council. 
      • City of Newport – Paul signed the agreement and shared EDALC’s W-9 with the city to now officially receive direct support funding for our operations (rather than project-specific contract funding as in the past) from the City of Newport. We are SO grateful for their support! Paul also met this week with City Administrator Nina Vetter to talk through upcoming collaborations, including potential cooperation on an upcoming EDA Disaster Supplemental grant application.
      • CWEDD – The Cascades West Economic Development District held its Executive Committee meeting this week to plan for the September 12th full board meeting. One interesting item on the agenda is a proposal EDALC put together to develop an awareness-building video on the economic strength of our region, how the Economic Development District supports regional growth and the new update to the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. Approval of that project will be voted on in the September 12th full meeting.
      • Creative Economies Playbook for Lincoln County (funded by Northwest Oregon Works) – Stacie worked on content creation.
  • OEDA – Sarah and Paul continued to reach out to people to try to coordinate logistics for the OEDA conference adventure day.
    • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Norpac Consulting – As part of the wrap-up of the CDS Blue Economy project, Paul checked in with Fletcher Conn, principal at Norpac Consulting. Norpac is working as a consultant on three exciting projects that are close to complete: a phase one property development plan in Bay City for the Tillamook County Food Hub project, phase one planning with Evan Hall of Rondy’s Inc. for the development of their property on McClean Point and a F/V Decision Making Business Plan and financial template for fishing vessel succession planning.
      • CDS Award – Paul and the team worked this week to close out project and consulting invoices and allowable expenses as we sunset our Blue Economy CDS award (which officially ends on the last day of August). In September, Paul will submit the close out report to the SBA.
      • Colpac – Paul met with Columbia Pacific Economic Development Director Sarah Lu Heath to discuss central and north coast Blue Economy projects and next steps in collaboration. Paul and Sarah Lu will meet in person at the Coastal Caucus Economic Summit in late September.
      • O2IH Website – Stacie wrote a Blue Story highlighting the NOAA Impact report and reviewed a cookie consent requirement update/recommendation from our web developer. 
    • Entrepreneurship
      • BizOR TA – Paul worked with Rural Prosperity Partners on pulling together project explanations and budgets for the Technical Assistance grant application. Paul also started rounding up the three (and only three) required letters of support. The grant will be submitted to Business Oregon next week.
  • Stacie researched Oregon’s land use planning system and brushed up on local zoning considerations for a meeting with a local entrepreneur next week.
    • Core Economic Development Services
  • Major Employers Report – Sarah continued to work on the major employers report data collection.
      • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings.
    • Community Connecting
      • CTSI and Philanthropic Foundations Tour and Collaboration Conversation – Because of the successful examples of EDALC’s partnerships, helpful connections, and collaborations with CTSI, Leslie and Paul were invited to join this tour today at CTSI’s Dance House and Tel-Tvm’ Farm. Following the tours and lunch from Siletz Valley School’s catering truck, the visiting Philanthropic Foundation representatives shared their funding priorities. CTSI Staff Leads then shared the efforts they’re seeking collaboration (and funding) on, before mingling and networking at the farm. 
      • See Leslie’s full weekly update here: August 29, 2025 EDALC CC Weekly Report
      • Community Connector Weekly Report Archives 2024+
    • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
        • Sarah did some research and played around with EDALC’s new DJI Osmo 3 camera – it is a big improvement in picture quality from the previous camera!
        • Stacie shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels – as well as the usual Friday roundup of central coast goings on. A Labor Day post has been scheduled for Monday.
  • Admin
  • QuickBooks – Paul finally got confirmation at the end of the week on the new way to enter payroll reports in QuickBooks (he entered a few reports and had the Fitzsimmons team check his work). Next week, he’ll work to try to get all of the data entry caught up.
  • Nonprofit SBM – Paul attended the Nonprofit Small Business Management program on Wednesday – the topic was financial management for nonprofits.
      • Team meeting took place 8/28 at the Allred.

 

Reminder: EDALC’s September Board of Directors meeting will be next Thursday, September 4th at 3:30pm, via Zoom. Here is the Zoom link:

 

Topic: September EDALC BoD Meeting

Time: Sep 4, 2025 03:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9178104987?pwd=bVJDN0VlUEM3aG9EaFhJQUZjcDJHUT09&omn=89714415175

 

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

 

Cheers,

 

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