Greetings and welcome to Friday! Also welcome to July – wow, summer escalated quickly! Also, welcome to FY 2022-23 – I don’t know – do you toast a milestone like that?
Here’s our EDALC update for the week:
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Sarah’s Update:
This week began with writing a promotional post for the Art, Oysters & Brews event this Saturday. Afterwards, I worked on the EDALC newsletter and added some eye-catching things for the AOB event on the ART Toledo website. Later, I added an Oregon Prospector section to the Business Resources section of the EDALC website. At the end of the day, I got a phone call from Mr. Orndorff asking about office spaces for his potential business and more information about creating a manufacturing business here. After talking with him for a while I found him some potential locations.
On Wednesday, I started off with emailing Mr. Orndorff back about those properties and gave him some more information and resources about creating a business in Lincoln County. Next, I continued to work on the newsletter and got most of the formatting and pictures done for the top half of it. After more discussion with Mr. Orndorff, I went looking for more potential business locations for both him and Mr. Christian who also reached out for more potential restaurant locations. I found some more potential sites for Mr. Christian and sent him those but am having some difficulty finding for rent office spaces, so if anyone knows of any leads for small office spaces for rent in Newport, please send them my way!
On Thursday, I attended the Art, Oysters & Brews check in meeting and went to Philomath to pick up a tent for the event.
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Paul’s Update:
Blue Economy – This week, I had another “form wrestling match” with our grant agent at the SBA on our Congressionally Directed Spending award – I guess that means they are getting close. No substantive issues, other than clunky forms, improperly working auto-fill PDFs and poorly designed federal websites, but hopefully (knock on wood), we’re past all that now. Mark Farley and I also reviewed Business Oregon’s RFP document for multiple sector surveys using state appropriated funds (one RFP for multiple sector surveys and bids) – it was given an official thumbs up from us.
ART Toledo – Tomorrow is the kick-off Art, Oysters and Brews event in Toledo (noon until 5) – artists, oysters, adult beverages, food trucks and live music! I’ll be running the sound for the event and performing at noon. Hope to see a few of you there!
City of Newport – The City’s attorney drafted the mutual agreement to create a 12-month grant funded position in EDALC for Leslie Palotas (with all funds coming from Newport and the Ford Family Foundation). I reviewed it early in the week and signed it yesterday. I also drafted a position contract for Leslie that we’ll nail down in the next week or so and get her on-boarded and rolling.
Budgeting and Accounting – With today’s payday, we made the official switch from once monthly payroll to twice monthly. I also ran the end-of-fiscal-year financials and shared those with Michael. I worked on the changes and additions needed to our QuickBooks account categories and should get those entered in next week.
Meet and Greet – This morning I had the pleasure of spending two hours with new Lincoln City City Manager Daphnee Legarza. We had a great, wide-ranging conversation looking at economic development county-wide as well as regionally. We also did a deep dive into Lincoln City’s needs and the ways in which EDALC can add some capacity to help them move the needle in a few areas. I’m confident she’ll be a great partner going forward and Lincoln City is lucky to have her.
As a reminder – your Board of Directors resource page is here:
REMINDER: there is NO July EDALC Board of Directors meeting – we’ll come back together on August 4th.
Thanks for ALL that you are doing out there! Please reach out to me if you need anything at all.
Have a wonderful, long holiday weekend!
Cheers,
-Paul 🙂