Greetings – I hope you all had a productive and positive week! It simply FLEW by here at the EDALC!

Here’s our update for the week –

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Suzan’s week:

* Daily/ weekly routine tasks
* Update emails
* Look up contact info for Paul
* Process memberships
* Deposited checks
* Thank you cards
* Got help w/QuickBooks Online sign in
* Studied QBO tutorials, researched processes
* Set up accounts and sub accounts in QBO & compared w/QB desktop
* Created custom report, set up check register, posted deposit
* Contacted landlord and met w/worker to repair toilet
* Printed and began reading Bill Pay Study Guide
* Membership invoice
* Move items off desktop and cleared space surrounding desk
* Staff Meeting
* Ordered surge protectors

 

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Paul’s week:

Housing – I met Northwest Coastal Housing Executive Director Shiela Stiley one-on-one this week. She gave me a solid understanding of her organization, plus a deeper understanding of who is doing what across Lincoln County. I also had a call with folks from Apex Real Estate Partners out of Portland (they also met with Alison Roberson from Lincoln City and we’re comparing notes). They are doing some initial research to see if they are interested in doing some workforce and/or affordable housing projects in the north county. We’ve got a little research to get back to them and will then have a followup call.

DEI Training – Next week, I start a multi-week Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness training program provided by the Oregon Coast Visitors Association. This week, we had a call with our “accountability partners” plus did some preliminary reading for next week’s kick-off class.

Cascades West Economic Development District CEDS – This week was another working meeting on the regional comprehensive economic development strategy plan update (which covers the next five years). We discussed teams that could come together to track topic efforts and the importance of two-way communication around work that’s going on relating to the plan (in the past plan – much work was done, but almost in isolation, with no knowledge that folks were rowing in the same direction as the regional desires).

Project Big Catch – We did get confirmation from the state that our submission was received and all the right info was in there for the large potential aquaculture project we discussed at our last board meeting. Regarding next steps, the company will be reviewing all of the West Coast submissions over the next 6 + weeks, so I think it won’t be until late November or sometime in December when we know which sites have made their short-list. I’ll let you know as soon as I hear anything.

Lincoln City – We got a plan put together for the initial Taft business engagement piece. We’ve got a shared Dropbox folder for media assets, and I’ve started pulling together the verbiage for the initial version. We should have things pulled together in the next week or so to get it into the hands of a graphic designer for a first-pass layout.

Oregon Business Plan Leadership Summit – I attended the third Leadership Summit this week and the focus was on Oregon’s long term recovery from the pandemic. The highlight was a speaker who is an economist at Harvard (who was speaking from Stockholm) who has been studying recovery efforts from around the world and was able to bring in some truly global insights.

Stakeholder Listening Sessions – Our goal is to send out invites to the four listening sessions (to be held on Nov. 12 & 13) next week. I’ve got a draft “context document” off to Doug Hunt for his feedback – once that’s good to go, then invites can go out.

Leadership Lincoln – This week, I received the results of my TriMetrix HD Coaching assessment (using the DISC system of behavior modeling) – it was something I took about two weeks back. If anyone wants to know what makes me tick, I’d be happy to share a cheat sheet – it’s actually a surprisingly accurate modeling tool, and the report did let me know that I am indeed the same person at home as in the office (which I thought I was). It’s good to be consistent, I guess!

Community and Economic Development Grant – Applications are being accepted for the Community and Economic Development Grant – here’s the link: https://www.co.lincoln.or.us/boc/page/community-and-economic-development-grant. The online application is much more streamlined than previous years – I’ve got an email query out to Kristi Peter at the county to see how we’ll get this year’s applications in. I’ll keep you posted.

Blue Economy – The EDA grant that was awarded to OSU/Hatfield and OregonRAIN now has a position opening: https://www.oregonrain.org/rain-seeking-blue-economy-innovation-catalyst/. Pedal to the metal!

New Website – The “urgent and the important” have pulled me away from deep work on the website for a few weeks, but I’ll have some after hours free time (see below) over the next week and a half so I plan to brew some later afternoon coffee and put in some long hours to get our site ready for review ASAP. We are also scheduled for our one-on-one consulting with the folks at Anvil Digital Media in early December.

Office Update – Things are moving along! Suzan cleared off her old desk this week and I’m beginning the Tetris-like shuffling of desks to get Suzan set up with a better workspace. I should have the desks, conference table and sideboard all in place by Monday. Then we’ll just need to refine everything, get rid of the two old desks, and then we can do some serious cable management and get some good art on the walls and a nice rug on the floor.

I’ll be out of the office for most of the day Tuesday – I’m taking Susan to the airport in Portland – she’s heading back to the Midwest for a week and a half to catch up with our kids, visit her Mom in Illinois and her Dad in Indiana.

Have a great weekend! Thanks for all that you are doing out there! Please reach out to me if you need anything at all.

 

Cheers,

-Paul 🙂