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Do you want me to call the word? | 00:00:05 | |
And then ohh boy. | 00:00:07 | |
All right, everyone. I'm going to call this meeting of the downtown business improvement districts special meeting to order at. | 00:00:11 | |
831 M. | 00:00:19 | |
And all of the people that we have online and in the room have met each other. We all know one another. So we can skip past | 00:00:22 | |
welcome and introductions and go straight to public comment on items that are not currently on the agenda today. | 00:00:30 | |
Do we have anybody online or in the room that would like to make public comments? | 00:00:38 | |
Looking. | 00:00:44 | |
I'm OK. | 00:00:47 | |
OK. | 00:00:48 | |
Anyone in the room have any public comment? | 00:00:49 | |
All right. Moving right along. | 00:00:52 | |
We are taking up this item again because we didn't have copies at our last meeting. So what you had sent to you as Advisory Board | 00:00:56 | |
was the budget that is part of the annual report for each one of the. | 00:01:03 | |
Assessment districts and you have to do this in March. And so number one, that's always a trick. But Laurie Friday at the City, | 00:01:12 | |
she helps me every year do estimates and whatnot. But you do have to turn this in pretty early. So the numbers are. | 00:01:19 | |
They're all an estimate for what we think we're going to have in 2324, which is also why I printed out for the Advisory Board the | 00:01:28 | |
current balance sheet and the reason why it wasn't in the packet was because. | 00:01:34 | |
I don't have access to this. My bookkeeper does and Two is out of town, so I just got it yesterday. So everyone in the room has a | 00:01:40 | |
copy. Laurie, I will give you a copy of it to post after the meetings for the public inside as well. | 00:01:46 | |
So as you can see, if you look from one to the other, we're not that far off as far as what we have in the bank and what we | 00:01:53 | |
estimated we would have in banks. So we're pretty unpar, which makes me happy. It's kind of nice to see them close to one another. | 00:02:01 | |
And the reason why this was on the agenda at the last meeting was because we were making determination about the donation to the | 00:02:09 | |
youth ambassadors. And and I had said that last year we had donated, if you look in the in the different line items, community | 00:02:16 | |
projects or promotion of events, we had given money to the Butterfly days to Dixie Lane last year. She's not going to be doing | 00:02:24 | |
extra things this year for that program. So it felt like a natural. | 00:02:31 | |
Please put those those monies. | 00:02:39 | |
So this is just open discussion. Anybody have any questions about? | 00:02:42 | |
How this is typically laid out. I'm using a pretty similar template from what you've used for the VIP for probably over a decade, | 00:02:48 | |
so I'm not changing much in here. I am just putting a little bit more detail so you can see advertising broken down a little bit. | 00:02:55 | |
Again, the budget typically is around 34,000 for the full fiscal year. It looks like we will be right there this year as well. | 00:03:03 | |
It's not a ton, but it's enough to do some projects and makes me. | 00:03:08 | |
Any questions? | 00:03:17 | |
I can go out to public comment as well. On this item, there's one who wants to. | 00:03:20 | |
Nobody in the room, what should we put should guide to PG. So this is a 2 page spread of anyone who's so the guide VG is something | 00:03:29 | |
with the Chamber of Commerce says one here If the benefit our membership and we give those things out we're going to run through | 00:03:36 | |
all of them this year, which we haven't done in a while. It's been a few years so it's very exciting. We have a two page spread | 00:03:43 | |
that lists any person who is in the downtown Business Improvement District that isn't already in the guide and the listing is. | 00:03:50 | |
That spread, that said, downtown business group, district number. So those are all the businesses that are in the BID are listed | 00:03:57 | |
in our guide a little bit differently from our members. Our members get that full listing of address, emails and what phone | 00:04:03 | |
numbers this is just ohh Christy help me, I believe it's there. | 00:04:08 | |
Their storefront address, correct? | 00:04:14 | |
Sorry, I'm going out to my staff member. | 00:04:17 | |
Maybe I'll answer here. | 00:04:21 | |
Yes, she is. | 00:04:23 | |
I will bring it next time so you guys can see it. I have examples, but it's it's listed a little bit differently and it is | 00:04:25 | |
specific to to the bid, but everybody is in the back. So we the bid helps with the cost of the back. | 00:04:31 | |
So that's. | 00:04:40 | |
Any questions? You everybody feel like it's pretty basic? | 00:04:44 | |
Seen it? Yeah, it works. And you know, maybe it's a question to put out there for the future is. | 00:04:49 | |
Yeah. Do we have any? | 00:04:57 | |
You know regulations would like to make it. We wanted evaluate things a little bit at some point in the future and. | 00:04:59 | |
And I would suggest that actually when I go to put the the annual report together in March, I know it sounds like a strange time, | 00:05:05 | |
but I think maybe that's a time when we can have the bid look at. | 00:05:11 | |
Look at the the document and see you know is there anything that you'd like to add to it or any just make so maybe we back that up | 00:05:17 | |
and talk start talking about that in February, January, February. | 00:05:22 | |
And it would be interested in maybe having some outreach. You know, just in the course of my day, I often talk to other business | 00:05:28 | |
owners and say, like, hey, you know, how come to the big, like, that's great. I would love to, but 830 doesn't suit. | 00:05:34 | |
So, you know, I don't know a lot of. | 00:05:42 | |
Sit in. | 00:05:46 | |
Participating in some way, but you know they need just something. | 00:05:48 | |
Thanks. | 00:05:51 | |
All right. | 00:05:55 | |
The next item is the logo update discussion, so I'm going to turn it over to. | 00:05:58 | |
We don't have Steve Thomas on, do we? | 00:06:04 | |
No, but I know that you and Steve were working on this, right? I did it. I ended up doing it before. | 00:06:07 | |
Comment. | 00:06:13 | |
Sorry, sorry everybody. And we're in a different room and there's different audio here. | 00:06:17 | |
I'm having a horrible time understanding a lot of the dialogue. Is this being run by an external mic or? | 00:06:21 | |
Is is it being picked up by the internal mic and the camera using? If there's an external mic, it might be better to bring it | 00:06:28 | |
closer to the group. | 00:06:32 | |
Actually, I think it's external. I don't know how far those regions you know. | 00:06:37 | |
No. | 00:06:43 | |
But I can bring it a little bit closer. | 00:06:44 | |
Alright, let's see if that helps. My apologies. Thank you. | 00:06:47 | |
And so we just have a meeting next March to brainstorm about budget and. | 00:06:52 | |
Maybe we'll talk about recruitment subreddit sometime. | 00:07:00 | |
Actually, that's the perfect time. And also talk about the terming out members and serving it. | 00:07:04 | |
So perfect. | 00:07:10 | |
OK. | 00:07:13 | |
So the logo I printed out kind of a guideline for you of kind of what? | 00:07:15 | |
We're thinking if we decide to take it to a contest rather than. | 00:07:21 | |
You know, give it to a graphic designer. I just came up with some kind of brand identity ideas of. | 00:07:28 | |
Kind of which direction we want them to go, as well as technical specifics for file format, how we're going to use it. | 00:07:36 | |
As well as a intellectual property statement and a judging statement just saying that, you know, the Downtown Business Improvement | 00:07:46 | |
District Board would be the judges and we're not responsible for any loss. | 00:07:52 | |
Entry. I just really tried to cover all of our bases in terms of, you know. | 00:07:59 | |
Well, I didn't get it. And you know, why wasn't I? | 00:08:04 | |
The main thing I think is that kind of what I was thinking. I don't know if there is a graphic design class at PG high. | 00:08:10 | |
But it might be interesting to reach out to that instructor because I remember I was at Carmel High in Graphic design and we were | 00:08:20 | |
given an assignment that was a logo contest for a local business or something. I can't remember who it was, but the the instructor | 00:08:27 | |
actually incorporated that into the the class and it was really good because. | 00:08:34 | |
You know, there's some really talented kids at the school, and it might be nice to open that up to them as well, just to make them | 00:08:42 | |
aware, because they're. | 00:08:46 | |
Excited about, you know? | 00:08:50 | |
Those kind of things. I don't know what we would give in terms of a prize. We had talked about, you know, maybe a cash prize. | 00:08:53 | |
Umm. | 00:09:00 | |
But that's kind of open to discussion, but. | 00:09:01 | |
I don't know, you know, in terms of. | 00:09:04 | |
And you can take it. I can e-mail it to you, Jason. | 00:09:07 | |
Umm. | 00:09:11 | |
If there are other descriptive words or other technical things that we want to give to them. | 00:09:12 | |
In terms of what we're looking for, but I made it pretty specific so we should get. | 00:09:18 | |
You know. | 00:09:23 | |
Maybe coffee did a scholarship. | 00:09:25 | |
Like if you win, you get a like $1000 scholarship towards college or something. That might be cool. | 00:09:28 | |
But that would only be if they were high school, high school students. And this is going to be a mix, right? Yeah, we were | 00:09:33 | |
thinking cool. | 00:09:37 | |
Component though, yeah. | 00:09:41 | |
Umm. | 00:09:43 | |
But. | 00:09:44 | |
You know and I put in there that we have the right to change it if we need to tweak it to fit our needs and. | 00:09:46 | |
I don't know so. | 00:09:55 | |
Looks good to me. | 00:09:57 | |
I love that idea of having. | 00:09:58 | |
A younger perspective because it's hard to move ourselves out of the. | 00:10:00 | |
The Leeward amounts. | 00:10:06 | |
Nice to see. Yeah, I do need to open it up to public comment and then we'll come back. Is there anyone in the public that is | 00:10:08 | |
interested in? | 00:10:13 | |
Speaking on this item and then we'll bring it back for further discussion. It doesn't look like anyone's. | 00:10:19 | |
OK. | 00:10:24 | |
Well, I think we should go ahead and do it. | 00:10:27 | |
That's a contest, so we want to vote on that or yeah, it's. | 00:10:29 | |
We can. It's not specifically agendas, but we can vote on moving forward with. | 00:10:34 | |
This contest, I think potentially we need to ask the city. | 00:10:41 | |
If there's anything that they need to look at because we are through the city, so I don't think so. But I think we should be able | 00:10:45 | |
to do this. And I mean I think we need to make obviously this is just an outline to make it. | 00:10:51 | |
Pretty, yeah. For, you know, However, we're going to present it if it's. | 00:10:57 | |
I don't know. On the website on, yeah, you know. | 00:11:02 | |
However, we need to go out to the public. Social media, yeah. | 00:11:06 | |
Right. | 00:11:11 | |
And now it's a good time if you're going to take it up to the high school, because they're just starting. | 00:11:12 | |
Yeah. | 00:11:16 | |
Jason and Christy, I know you guys are online. Is, is the sound any better? Is it still pretty muffled? | 00:11:20 | |
It's a little bit better. It's a. | 00:11:27 | |
I might donate a microphone to you guys, but yeah, yeah, it's it's a little better. | 00:11:30 | |
You need to. | 00:11:35 | |
OK, so next steps then, Yeah. | 00:11:37 | |
Would you be able to talk to the city? | 00:11:40 | |
Yeah, I'll, yeah, I'll, I'll send it to where I can send it and see if I can just get an answer. The only thing I worry or worry | 00:11:43 | |
about, I would think it would be the city attorney. | 00:11:48 | |
My guess? | 00:11:54 | |
If there's anything. | 00:11:55 | |
And the. | 00:11:57 | |
For some reason they feel like they would be held liable for something so just because it it's the the sort of drag on our. | 00:11:58 | |
Because we meet some frequently, would it be possible to send an e-mail out and say? | 00:12:07 | |
And have a go ahead or if you want to put it in place now or going away to the next meeting. | 00:12:12 | |
Well, I think that the commit committee, it's UNC. If so, can we can give them the go ahead to just keep moving with it up to the | 00:12:19 | |
point of actually launching it. OK. So whatever needs to be done between now and then and then launching, we'll just get the OK | 00:12:24 | |
for the next meeting we'll have the. | 00:12:30 | |
The campaign ready to launch this, does that work for you? Yeah. And I think maybe, I don't know if Steve's team can put together | 00:12:38 | |
a flyer, whatever it is, and the the social media component to that, I can contact him about that and just say we, you know, | 00:12:44 | |
agreed to get this going and we're just. | 00:12:49 | |
Checking with the city attorney, but let's, you know, get moving. Would we like to have a? | 00:12:55 | |
Page on the city website where it says something like if you own a business in downtown Pacific Rd. we welcome you. | 00:13:01 | |
There. | 00:13:07 | |
It mentions the BID on the city website. Yeah, so the the BD has their description page on the city website. | 00:13:09 | |
We could ask if they could put this contest on there as a as a button for people to download. | 00:13:18 | |
Well, I was just thinking like this is part of our future, like you know now that we're doing a logo, we like to make that page a | 00:13:25 | |
little bit more meaningful in terms of like inviting people to come to the. | 00:13:31 | |
Once, maybe you could kill that bird with. | 00:13:38 | |
But the same stone, Yes. Well, you could talk to. Yeah, that'll be two different people, but that's OK. | 00:13:41 | |
It's alright, but I will talk about it. | 00:13:49 | |
Yeah. | 00:13:53 | |
That's a logical place to. | 00:13:55 | |
So part of the same kind of. | 00:13:57 | |
Umm. | 00:13:59 | |
Upgrade, yeah. | 00:14:01 | |
OK. | 00:14:04 | |
That has excellent statement. | 00:14:06 | |
I mean. | 00:14:12 | |
Ohh no no, go for it because this is all actually these are all yours so. | 00:14:14 | |
Steve was actually going to be looking at Steve, but OK, well, I'll move on then to. | 00:14:18 | |
Agenda item 6A All are welcome business signage so. | 00:14:27 | |
As you probably aware, last month during Pride Month, some legislation was passed Supreme Court saying that businesses don't have | 00:14:32 | |
to serve people that if it offends their religion and so. | 00:14:40 | |
And that's kind of a big thing and it's not about education, it's not about, it's about businesses and we are businesses and and. | 00:14:48 | |
I spoke to the local pride. | 00:14:56 | |
Nonprofit and. | 00:15:00 | |
Of. | 00:15:02 | |
Their board member that I spoke to and said, you know, honestly they're not expecting, you know, a huge backlash in our community, | 00:15:03 | |
but we do have a large LGBTQ community and they said. | 00:15:10 | |
What's? | 00:15:19 | |
Ideally they would like to know if any business did not want to serve them. | 00:15:20 | |
But I don't think people are going to put that on the board. | 00:15:25 | |
So they're saying, you know what would be positive and kind of it's just an umbrella thing anyway, is there are the signs that say | 00:15:28 | |
all are welcome? | 00:15:33 | |
And so just as a statement that you know, in these times we are. | 00:15:39 | |
Inclusive and we. | 00:15:46 | |
You know the value of community members, it's they were just saying, you know, it would be a nice thing for businesses to do. | 00:15:48 | |
So I thought that was something was mentioning with the ID. | 00:15:57 | |
Meeting and there's different ways that you could go forward with this. One is just. | 00:16:00 | |
You know, we don't do anything collectively, just individually. People will put signs up or we could make a statement as a BID | 00:16:07 | |
group saying. | 00:16:11 | |
We welcome all people in our community. | 00:16:16 | |
And you know then that statement is kind of on record as us having a position on this topic, we could even reach out to the ID | 00:16:21 | |
numbers and say hey you know this is. | 00:16:27 | |
Suggestion. Would you know if you feel that you would like to? | 00:16:35 | |
Make a statement about inclusivity. I've been seeing a lot of major business, I mean like huge corporation businesses with like | 00:16:42 | |
window claims. That's what I was just thinking about something which, you know, I have vendors that can print that kind of thing. | 00:16:49 | |
So, you know, if we came up with a design for one, you know, 4 Pacific growth, it might be neat that, you know, we could. | 00:16:56 | |
Give them to anybody, any businesses who are. | 00:17:03 | |
You know, I'd be willing to donate those to any businesses who would want them, just so it's very visible. And yeah, I think the | 00:17:06 | |
window plan is approved as well. | 00:17:10 | |
First thing that popped into my, you know, saying my business alone. I mean, I get people who come in and say, do you do wedding | 00:17:15 | |
invitations for same sex couples? And I'm like, of course I do, you know, I'm like, you know, I'll you know, but for them to have | 00:17:20 | |
to come to me and ask me. | 00:17:25 | |
You know, that could be uncomfortable, but it's like if it's on my window. | 00:17:30 | |
You know, we we get a lot too. But there's like you said a small community. So they go like sharing. Larry, you don't care, right? | 00:17:34 | |
Yeah. You know if you need anything go see that because they welcome us kind of thing and I know that we get a lot of positive | 00:17:39 | |
feedback because we. | 00:17:44 | |
Two lesbian daughters. Yeah, yeah, right. But but I know we do get a lot of business because we, you know, are inclusive. | 00:17:51 | |
Well, I was told that we've been told. | 00:18:00 | |
They we have been considered a safe restaurant, right? I mean it is it is a big deal. It is business too. I was wondering if. | 00:18:03 | |
Potentially we could do like a cost proposal maybe and get kind of a. | 00:18:11 | |
How much would it cost us to do that if the bid where to buy a certain number of them and then our members could anybody who wants | 00:18:16 | |
them, you know contact, they can contact the chamber, we can have them there and then we we would either deliver them or they can. | 00:18:23 | |
Pick them up. As far as doing making some sort of a statement from the actual bid itself, I think it would be a good idea to | 00:18:29 | |
survey the members if you were to say we were going to come out with a joint statement, so you can absolutely survey the members | 00:18:36 | |
on that and do these simultaneously if you'd like, but definitely getting. | 00:18:43 | |
We could tell them it's available, you know, Yeah, survey the members and if you want one. | 00:18:51 | |
Here's what we've come up with. Those are two separate paths. One, we'll go ahead and make available some details for shops and | 00:18:56 | |
people who want to, and secondly, we'll. | 00:19:01 | |
I just do a survey. Could you help me do that? | 00:19:08 | |
Yeah, absolutely. The wording is really important. | 00:19:13 | |
What? You know how much? | 00:19:18 | |
Coverage it means for the group and all that kind of thing. So yeah, that would be great. | 00:19:21 | |
OK. That is a plan then. Thank you. | 00:19:25 | |
So that's what I'm wondering is if if we had imprinted once we have the logo, just so it's kind of. | 00:19:30 | |
A branded, you know it doesn't have to be big but just that it's hey, this is the downtown improvement if this if the members | 00:19:37 | |
agree that. | 00:19:41 | |
That's a that's something they want to support. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, that's a good. | 00:19:46 | |
Yeah, for sure. | 00:19:53 | |
But also, I think all of these can be happening, yeah? | 00:19:54 | |
Yeah. | 00:20:00 | |
Umm. | 00:20:01 | |
Override. | 00:20:02 | |
Design or Philosophy? | 00:20:03 | |
That you have for we reserve the right to refuse service. | 00:20:06 | |
To anyone because sometimes you get an obnoxious. | 00:20:10 | |
Oh yeah, yeah. | 00:20:14 | |
No, I think it's all are welcome and we have the right to reserve. | 00:20:16 | |
Because that means it's it's on the vape, on your character and your behavior. Like, they're totally different. Like, you're | 00:20:21 | |
welcome, but you know, if you don't, if you're a ******** we get to kick you out. | 00:20:27 | |
The rainbow thing, then you know that. | 00:20:34 | |
Right. | 00:20:38 | |
And if you go? | 00:20:40 | |
Yes, that's the. That's because I don't have anything on my businesses. I have the right to refuse, but I've got people to leave | 00:20:42 | |
before. I haven't seen the all our welcome signage window cleanings yet. I'd love to see what they look like. The one that I saw | 00:20:48 | |
recently, I think it was at. | 00:20:53 | |
Yeah, the other day was a rainbow, like the colors. I think it also included Rams. | 00:20:59 | |
You know, like all the colors and it just have simple type and white over it looks all over welcome. OK. | 00:21:07 | |
But I mean it could be whatever you know you want it to be. But I we probably, I can probably Google. | 00:21:14 | |
40 examples of what they look like you know, but. | 00:21:20 | |
You know. | 00:21:24 | |
Just It's very visible when it's removed because it's just like, oh, there it is, yeah. | 00:21:25 | |
And I think I mean it may not seem like a lot. | 00:21:31 | |
To you. But it means ohh absolutely some people in our community. | 00:21:34 | |
With all this time. | 00:21:41 | |
Supportive so, OK. | 00:21:44 | |
Great. Then we have that plan for that as well, so. | 00:21:47 | |
Any company public comments or? | 00:21:51 | |
For further discussion from the boards, No. See nothing. Let's move on to the next. | 00:21:56 | |
So the. | 00:22:05 | |
Alzheimer's Association, as you may know, is a very huge national nonprofit and they do a huge event every year. The major | 00:22:08 | |
fundraiser is a walk to raise money. | 00:22:14 | |
And they haven't had in Monterey. | 00:22:20 | |
And it's. | 00:22:26 | |
After earlier delivery. | 00:22:27 | |
So the they had approached Eric Upman at the Cannery Row Company. Just ask them if Cannery Row would do in a like a a promotion | 00:22:29 | |
for them. | 00:22:34 | |
And. | 00:22:41 | |
He just said being Cannery Row, with all the heavy tourist stuff, you didn't think that it would fly very well. But then he asked | 00:22:41 | |
me if specific group would be interested in doing something to support their walk. So basically it's an event called. | 00:22:49 | |
Paint the town purple and for a week you have local businesses. | 00:22:56 | |
Like put purple balloons or purple. | 00:23:02 | |
Something anything on their business and give out literature like leaflets from they will supply all this about the Alzheimer's | 00:23:04 | |
Association and and just like have your staff and have everybody tell the passers by hey please sign up for the walk in Monterey. | 00:23:11 | |
So really that's all it is is promoting their walk because they want to get as many people walking as possible have a huge event | 00:23:18 | |
so. | 00:23:24 | |
There's a few strands to it. You can give a prize for the. | 00:23:34 | |
The the most beautiful shop front. And that's all purple. | 00:23:41 | |
You know you can. | 00:23:45 | |
I didn't know that. I think that was the main. | 00:23:48 | |
That was the main initiative. The other things that I read weren't snaps appropriate for us, but it's it's got Wear purple | 00:23:53 | |
clothing. Use purple balloons and purple streamers. Put a purple flower arrangement in your office reception area. Place the paint | 00:24:00 | |
the town purple. Cling in the business window or door. Serve purple food or create a purple dream. Give out purple candies and | 00:24:07 | |
cover it purple into your brand outfit, your crew, and purple uniforms or shirts. | 00:24:13 | |
We're purple wristbands, purple lapel ribbons and campaign so that people ask you like, oh, what's that for? You say Ohh. | 00:24:21 | |
Fundraiser so and. | 00:24:29 | |
It's. | 00:24:31 | |
It's a constant. I personally care a lot about having had family members that have. | 00:24:32 | |
Yeah. | 00:24:40 | |
Suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's. | 00:24:41 | |
And yeah, anything. I mean, there are some amazing breakthroughs that have you seen in the news. There's some like really, really | 00:24:46 | |
promising treatments. And that's all thanks to this kind of thing. | 00:24:51 | |
Being just, you know, steadily to their cars, so. | 00:24:57 | |
And. | 00:25:00 | |
It's. | 00:25:02 | |
You know, I I don't know. The bandwidth of business owners is always stretched and I don't know if. | 00:25:03 | |
We feel that there would be uptake. I wouldn't wanna do it unless we felt like people would give it a a good effort. | 00:25:10 | |
But should I just throw it out for discussion? It's kind of a minimal effort. It's the decorating, you know and and spreading the | 00:25:19 | |
word. | 00:25:23 | |
Is Monterey. | 00:25:28 | |
Downtown Monterey doing anything for it. So it's it's going to be in Monterey. That's a good question. OK. Is it that it starts at | 00:25:31 | |
the board? Yeah. It's all moderates and it's yes, it is somewhere in the world. | 00:25:37 | |
Yeah. | 00:25:43 | |
But I think they use our bike trail, don't they walk all the way down to leverage point? | 00:25:44 | |
Yes, they do. Yeah. I think they walked from Monterey to Supergirl. Come back. Right. Because I know people who walk into the | 00:25:48 | |
exact route. Yeah. But I I believe that's. | 00:25:53 | |
That's what early, yeah, on the bike? | 00:25:58 | |
Responsible So. | 00:26:02 | |
Right. Well, even more. | 00:26:04 | |
Immediate then that's something you actually walking through town. That's that's cool. | 00:26:08 | |
Early October is actually a really, I would think, a good time because it's just before the holidays, so it's not on top of any. | 00:26:14 | |
Other thing that's happening in the in the community believe that pink and breast cancer. | 00:26:22 | |
I mean it's it's the Alzheimer's Association does provide you with like some things, right? | 00:26:30 | |
So it's seems really window they'll give you this then. So it's just us getting the word out to the businesses, OK. | 00:26:39 | |
And, you know, they have a lot of volunteers. They might need to do some of the leg work, right? That would be great, yeah, | 00:26:50 | |
because a lot of times you can send an e-mail, but it's. | 00:26:55 | |
It's different. | 00:27:00 | |
Filipinos are just, I mean, I, you know, it's I think the personal. | 00:27:03 | |
So shall I say to this woman, Allison, who is the local organizer. | 00:27:09 | |
Should I tell her that? | 00:27:14 | |
We're happy to participate. And could she organize it? Yeah, if she, if she's on her end organizing it and we say, you know, | 00:27:17 | |
Pacific Grove, downtown Pacific Grove just wants to participate, then I can give her all of it. Sorry, all of my communication. | 00:27:24 | |
Contacts from the bid and then she can start doing the legwork of of letting people know we'll do it on our end as well. But I | 00:27:33 | |
think if it doesn't cost anybody, yeah, you know, I would say it's unless you wanna be, right, Right. | 00:27:39 | |
And and she did the national press coverage. | 00:27:47 | |
You know, that's that's amazing. And he doesn't know who best coverage too. | 00:27:52 | |
Show that we're offering Community. | 00:27:57 | |
All of these are carrying items. I love it. It's nice. | 00:28:00 | |
I said that's true. | 00:28:06 | |
So. | 00:28:09 | |
Was it something I said? | 00:28:11 | |
No. All right. Well, then any. | 00:28:14 | |
Any comments? | 00:28:18 | |
Let us move on to the next item, which really was what Steve Thomas. | 00:28:24 | |
Introduced last week, which I thought was a kind of an interesting, well, really positive idea actually and. | 00:28:31 | |
I yes, I did. | 00:28:38 | |
Sure. And I'm going to try to remember all the things he said to me. I was having lunch and I was on the phone at the same time. | 00:28:41 | |
So there used to be a group. It was totally informal. It was just that one designee from all of these different groups that | 00:28:48 | |
already exist. | 00:28:55 | |
They would meet once a month and just go over things that may overlap between the different groups. HD, the BID, the chamber, the | 00:29:02 | |
EDC. I don't know about the AC. That's the one question mark I had. I had to ask. And then. | 00:29:09 | |
Could be the arts district. It could be you know any of these groups anyway, but the the point of the meeting was to see if there | 00:29:17 | |
was any overlap or if one group is looking for support from other groups that that's the way to kind of take the. | 00:29:25 | |
The micro and maybe macro and let people understand and all of these different groups, what's going on with maybe 1 industry | 00:29:34 | |
sector in particular. So Steve said this used to exist. So it's not outside of the character of what PG has done in the past. He | 00:29:41 | |
does have notes about how it was loosely organized because it wasn't, it was just. | 00:29:48 | |
A meeting, like I said informally, but he has all of that documentation from when it existed prior, way prior to COVID, I believe, | 00:29:56 | |
from when we spoke. | 00:30:01 | |
So that's also why I was hoping Steve Thomas was here because he has all of that detail for us. | 00:30:07 | |
And perhaps what we can do is I can ask Steve to do a presentation on our next meeting to let us know how it was loosely | 00:30:13 | |
organized. | 00:30:17 | |
And how we can maybe not have to work harder, but work smarter and use use a template that's been used before so. | 00:30:23 | |
I think that's a really good idea, he said specifically. | 00:30:31 | |
You know it's. | 00:30:35 | |
You know in terms of community, if local businesses work together and that they're organized together that we do have a stronger | 00:30:37 | |
voice and it's just it's just a way also like not just our. | 00:30:43 | |
Organizing amongst ourselves to being more effective with other business You know in our network it's it's also it has a public | 00:30:50 | |
facing side as well to one is does this we have a we have a district meeting every month where all the different clubs from the | 00:30:58 | |
area get together and we tell the other what we're doing and then if we need like Monterey Club was running the food or the wine | 00:31:06 | |
bar at the US Open and they obviously. | 00:31:13 | |
That members to support everything. So they come and say, hey this is what we're doing, we're gonna have a tent and everybody | 00:31:21 | |
wants to come volunteer, will give the club dollars or whatever, you know, but but that's how we work as an organization, so we do | 00:31:26 | |
our own thing and then we. | 00:31:31 | |
Have a. | 00:31:37 | |
Everybody gets together and just says this is what we're doing. | 00:31:39 | |
Well, I mean, for instance, the Arts District map is nearly done and so that would be really useful for the HID right now about, | 00:31:42 | |
you know, and. | 00:31:46 | |
So yeah, there's a lot of areas where we can. | 00:31:51 | |
Share strengthen our interests and. | 00:31:54 | |
Help each other. | 00:31:57 | |
Possible so. | 00:31:59 | |
I think it is too. | 00:32:01 | |
Yes. | 00:32:03 | |
And especially the way that they've explained it to me, it was easy for me to understand fairly quickly what the purpose of it was | 00:32:06 | |
and why you. | 00:32:10 | |
Why you would want to do this? Because it doesn't benefit everybody knowing what's happening and I worry about burnout. That's | 00:32:14 | |
only thing I worry about because this is always certain amount of people. Do you know 8020 rule? I don't apologize for stepping | 00:32:19 | |
out but I don't know if it was mentioned but. | 00:32:25 | |
Would this help with? | 00:32:31 | |
Like when things come up like the parklets. | 00:32:33 | |
For making a group statement. | 00:32:37 | |
You know so that it rather than. | 00:32:39 | |
City Council and the mayor getting. | 00:32:42 | |
This many things they get one giant thing saying. | 00:32:45 | |
This group, this group, this group, we're all together and we're all like a coalition. | 00:32:49 | |
Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 00:32:54 | |
Yeah. | 00:32:57 | |
From another morning. | 00:32:59 | |
That's OK. No, absolutely. I think that was the whole purpose and that's why you had the discussion last time. Yeah, And it does. | 00:33:02 | |
So there's there's half 1/2 The other, you know there's sometimes volume is good and sometimes being concise as good as well. So | 00:33:07 | |
depending on what it is, you know. | 00:33:12 | |
Having. | 00:33:18 | |
Having them work work separately as well as together, you know, would be great. | 00:33:20 | |
Anyway, there's a lot of overlap. Yeah, obviously. But it's. Yeah, yeah, it is. And that's that's something that I think is really | 00:33:24 | |
important that each one of these advisory groups and boards has their own identity. And we're we're really the chamber for the BID | 00:33:32 | |
and HD, we're the administrator. You know, we're just the ones kind of making it happen, but it's the advisory boards and the | 00:33:39 | |
groups that actually push the direction of what's happening. So I like them having their own voices in their own. | 00:33:47 | |
Identity. I think that's a good thing. | 00:33:55 | |
Yeah, absolutely. | 00:33:58 | |
But then that takes us through all the agency agenda item six. Could I just ask if there's any comments? | 00:34:00 | |
I made my comment. Thank you. | 00:34:11 | |
Thank you, Jason. We love you. | 00:34:13 | |
I'll be back. | 00:34:16 | |
Board members. | 00:34:21 | |
That's usually you're really ohh, sure, I'll go around the room. Why don't we start online because we haven't heard a lot from | 00:34:23 | |
you. Jason, what's going on in your world? | 00:34:28 | |
In the world of the BID, not much. Do you wanna hear beyond that? Because I got a lot to say on a personal note. | 00:34:36 | |
This is this is the time to talk about business updates. So if you have any business updates. | 00:34:43 | |
Yeah, I could just talk about, I mean things we have scheduled. | 00:34:51 | |
For me, me personally, would be. | 00:34:56 | |
We have several events lined up. The big, big one, which I want everybody in Pacific Grove to come to, is a large party. In fact, | 00:34:59 | |
the Chamber is helping to organize music for it. Now is on September 9th. We have new exhibits coming up. | 00:35:07 | |
And we'll have live music they'll be served and and wine served and so everybody is invited to that. We do have a movie night | 00:35:16 | |
coming on August 25th. There's a local guy named Craig Lovell who's a photographer who did a documentary film on. Don't know if | 00:35:21 | |
anybody's ever heard of Jerry Osman. | 00:35:27 | |
But he's a very well known photographer, kind of from the Ansel Ansel Adams era. | 00:35:34 | |
And we'll be screening a documentary at the gallery on that. And then, you know, some other things. But those are the two big ones | 00:35:41 | |
that I wanted to tell everybody about. | 00:35:45 | |
Ohh, thank you. | 00:35:51 | |
Moving down the table, Miss Loftus. | 00:35:53 | |
Kind of. | 00:35:56 | |
Same I think sentiment as everybody else. It's this year's just kind of been flat I think, but we did. | 00:35:57 | |
We have seen a little bit of pickup with summer traffic. | 00:36:05 | |
But I'm, you know, I just finished doing all of my holiday ordering and I'm just proceeding as normal because my. | 00:36:10 | |
Theory is is if you don't have it to sell, you can't sell it so. | 00:36:18 | |
You know, the shop is going to be very full of merchandise and it's like, you know, sometimes my. | 00:36:23 | |
My Angel mom sitting on my shoulder going but but you know. | 00:36:30 | |
My employees are all happy. | 00:36:36 | |
Everybody's employed, everybody's working. | 00:36:38 | |
So. | 00:36:41 | |
Nothing to complain about, really. | 00:36:42 | |
That's good insights, yeah. | 00:36:45 | |
Well, my employees are unhappy too, and that makes us very yes, we can be. | 00:36:48 | |
So we're business, but everybody's happy we're good. | 00:36:54 | |
But yeah, it's pretty much the same we're. | 00:36:58 | |
Really from the period of the year until about. | 00:37:03 | |
Business has been. | 00:37:05 | |
Suppressed. | 00:37:06 | |
But it's just picked up recently. | 00:37:08 | |
And I think for us it's picked up because. | 00:37:10 | |
The Conference Center seems to be busier. And where there's that compression? | 00:37:13 | |
We start to feel the bump in in business. | 00:37:18 | |
Not because we're getting groups. | 00:37:22 | |
But because other places are full and they're looking elsewhere. | 00:37:23 | |
But the monetary conference? | 00:37:32 | |
Yeah, I'm not sure about the I see the moderate Conference Center because they walk by it every day. | 00:37:35 | |
And there's a lot of buzz and bodies coming out and getting a big. | 00:37:40 | |
Buses and it's that kind of activity and they do feed people, yeah. | 00:37:46 | |
They've been really, you know, waiting for this. | 00:37:51 | |
For the command center that bump up, Yeah, but. | 00:37:54 | |
Yeah, everything is going according to plan, as busy as. | 00:37:58 | |
As we are, and it's good, but you know, we are used to going up incrementally year by year. And of course that's not happening | 00:38:04 | |
now. But yeah, but it's not happening for anyone. So yeah, yeah, I know that's that's a sad thing that I say often is that you're | 00:38:10 | |
not alone. But it doesn't make it feel any better. | 00:38:17 | |
I think that's that's true, that's true. And my best friend works, he does bookings at Bernardis and they've been down. But August | 00:38:25 | |
is phenomenal car week. I think it's going to be very strong just based on his comments alone, but. | 00:38:33 | |
They do, you know. | 00:38:41 | |
Just want seeing lot more. | 00:38:43 | |
Treatment field. | 00:38:46 | |
Five night minimum for car week? Yeah, so. | 00:38:50 | |
At their prices, yeah, it's like it's but. But people are desperate. They're calling hotels and they're not finding availability. | 00:38:55 | |
Peninsula wide So. | 00:39:04 | |
That's a good thing. | 00:39:06 | |
No. | 00:39:08 | |
Yeah. | 00:39:08 | |
Liz. | 00:39:10 | |
Yeah, You talk about the business. I'll just mention a few things about like events. | 00:39:12 | |
There's for the Arts District for anyone who's interested, or, you know, people who are interested. Our next community meeting is | 00:39:19 | |
on September the 28th. | 00:39:23 | |
And. | 00:39:27 | |
Currently some. | 00:39:29 | |
Projects are ongoing. | 00:39:31 | |
The 12 grading got started, but you had. | 00:39:33 | |
No. | 00:39:38 | |
Yeah, we can't find a sunny day to. | 00:39:40 | |
Make something that you'll see some of that but. | 00:39:45 | |
Yeah, it hasn't. | 00:39:49 | |
OK, that's that. | 00:39:51 | |
We probably be interested to know the economic development Commission is proposing that meeting on Thursday, that to do a kind of | 00:39:55 | |
a 10 year plan and economic plan because there isn't one for the city and you know even a bad plan is better than no plan. So but | 00:40:05 | |
we have, we found a really great resource which like an idiot could do it. It actually is like really easy to come up with the. | 00:40:15 | |
So here we plan. With that, we're excited. | 00:40:25 | |
Will be you know is this gets started we'll be asking a lot of the local businesses to be on the. | 00:40:28 | |
To come in and out of the subcommittees because it's a major project. We're gonna try and do rotating subcommittees so because you | 00:40:36 | |
can only have three members on it and that's not enough, so. | 00:40:41 | |
So we'll be rotating numbers and we'll be inviting. | 00:40:47 | |
People in SO. | 00:40:50 | |
It's super interesting and so if you'd like to be involved with us now, it's. | 00:40:52 | |
That's exciting. | 00:40:58 | |
And so we're going to have a fundraiser dinner for the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust in October. | 00:41:00 | |
Looking for match funding for it because you only make a few $100.00 with these things and you know it's a really important PR. | 00:41:08 | |
Events. | 00:41:15 | |
But also it would be nice if they could. They have such good things going on. | 00:41:16 | |
We're trying. | 00:41:21 | |
I'll say very quickly, and there's a lot of forage fish in our Bay. In forage fish are the teeny tiny fish like smelt and | 00:41:24 | |
anchovies and sardines and. | 00:41:28 | |
Mackerel. And they're super sustainable, really healthy for you and very delicious. And it needs to be fished widely. As you know, | 00:41:34 | |
Monthly became famous because of sardines, but the old timers never taught the young fisherman how to fish for it because the | 00:41:41 | |
sardines anyway. So we do have great regulation to these fish, and there's only one guy in Santa Cruz who knows how to fish these. | 00:41:49 | |
It's a Vietnamese guy. And so we're hoping to get a grant to teach young fishermen how to do this, because this is. | 00:41:56 | |
Net. | 00:42:04 | |
The prisoners that. | 00:42:06 | |
It's well, it's a it's different it's you have a lamp and a net and but you have to have all the knowledge of how the fish behave | 00:42:07 | |
and wind, what times and how you read the conditions and all that and it's a it's a big deal. | 00:42:14 | |
So there's really, when you think about it, we have, you know. | 00:42:20 | |
My card on the table all the time, right? You've got a little bit on the table all the time, but you never see in any restaurant | 00:42:25 | |
these fish. | 00:42:29 | |
How many tables? And you don't really see them for sale from cooks either, so. | 00:42:33 | |
That's. | 00:42:37 | |
Christina. | 00:42:39 | |
Help with that. | 00:42:40 | |
Part of that and it's always fun when he gets fisherman and get huge amazing and competition silly games and we want to drink the | 00:42:42 | |
wine actually. | 00:42:46 | |
You know, it's fun the whole time these days, so it's fun the whole time. | 00:42:52 | |
Walked over. | 00:42:57 | |
Thursday. | 00:42:58 | |
And Liz talked about this the other day and the thing that I love about this grant and this program they're doing is that it | 00:43:01 | |
brings identity back to the Bay. And we have been known for these types of fish. It is part of the identity. So it's kind of I | 00:43:06 | |
like it. I think they're. | 00:43:12 | |
I think people will rally around it. | 00:43:18 | |
Ohh, maybe this would be time to stay at. The Arts District is planning to build up incrementally over the years. | 00:43:21 | |
A summer festival called the Kelp Festival, and that's going to be an arts and Science Festival because we want to be different | 00:43:28 | |
from all the other festivals, right? So And it's very much our PG identity of. | 00:43:34 | |
Because of the marine sanctuary and all the many marine scientists that we have in the area and also a really thriving art | 00:43:40 | |
community and bringing the two together because our science actually go together very. | 00:43:45 | |
Very well. There's amazing ideas. Jason is the brains behind this. Actually, this. Ted talks this. | 00:43:51 | |
You know St. festival, there's a sustainable fish festival or something like that to be part of the food component of it. | 00:44:00 | |
You know, this dance all kinds of things. | 00:44:08 | |
Exciting. It'll start off with just a few events and these small. | 00:44:12 | |
But. | 00:44:16 | |
This is a when you talk about giving identity to the towns, playing on your strengths and doing things that yeah, anyway. | 00:44:17 | |
Has business been? | 00:44:26 | |
It's been slow. It's starting up. | 00:44:28 | |
Groups would be better. | 00:44:34 | |
And it's been so excited about it and. | 00:44:36 | |
I see the. | 00:44:40 | |
To be resilient. | 00:44:43 | |
Please. | 00:44:45 | |
I suppose after. | 00:44:46 | |
35 years and run the school business. | 00:44:48 | |
Which is some ups and downs since the. | 00:44:52 | |
It's just one of those things, right? You just keep doing it. | 00:44:54 | |
The. | 00:45:00 | |
I have the opposite problem. | 00:45:05 | |
So we are partnering with a work room that makes our drivers in Santa Cruz, and they will be. | 00:45:09 | |
Becoming polls during brief second location, so we are extending the process of. | 00:45:18 | |
Pseudo expanding into Santa Cruz because the. | 00:45:24 | |
Gather store that is like what we are up there. | 00:45:28 | |
She's not doing well and she's sick, so she's going to be closing. So we're going to be taking that market share. We've also | 00:45:31 | |
expanded into the Hollister area, so we've been doing a lot more. | 00:45:37 | |
Hollister. | 00:45:42 | |
As you told you before, we've hired 2 new installers. So we have a group of wonderful women, Angel, Deanna. They go around and do | 00:45:45 | |
all their installations and repairs all day. And then Larry. | 00:45:52 | |
As for the last three months, only measured. So he measures and helps them and then they install, and lucky for us, Shay Home. | 00:45:59 | |
Whoever is building all those lovely homes out at the links and everything, whoever they're using for their window coverings is | 00:46:06 | |
horrible. | 00:46:12 | |
Good morning. | 00:46:20 | |
So we are we are the top dealer in Northern California right now, which is really weird. | 00:46:22 | |
Yeah, yeah, I. | 00:46:34 | |
So all three pieces doing well and I think I shovel room. So we're getting a new showroom. Hunter Douglas approached us to put in | 00:46:37 | |
all the new fancy showroom and they are actually giving us. | 00:46:44 | |
$10,000 towards it, which I've been dealing with Hunter Douglas since the 80s. They have never ever ever offered me money before | 00:46:51 | |
so everybody taking off so we're going to we've moved all the shipping receiving out of our little building into my. | 00:47:00 | |
Garage at home. So now all the dogs get the ordinary throat and we're gonna. | 00:47:10 | |
Tear out everything re sheetrock, put in new flooring and paint. | 00:47:15 | |
We will have a giant display cable in the back room where we can like it's about this big where you can put out samples and stuff. | 00:47:21 | |
And then we will also have all the music plays in front room. So false draperies by the end of the year will look completely | 00:47:27 | |
different again. So that's kind of what we're doing. So I have a very high stress level right now. | 00:47:34 | |
But yeah, that's so I can't complain about business. So great. Yeah, I know it's a great success, very positive in this time of | 00:47:42 | |
uncertainty. Yeah, so. | 00:47:47 | |
I love talking about cherries, but. | 00:47:55 | |
A couple of things that are coming up the chamber, we have our flavors of it in September. So obviously we'll be coming to all of | 00:48:00 | |
our restaurant partners, but we also set up wine and beer and cider in particular. | 00:48:08 | |
In other places as well, not just restaurants. So you know, Coldwell Banker, we used their room, Bradley Photographic, we used his | 00:48:18 | |
room so that you're using other businesses to bring people in as well. | 00:48:25 | |
We're gonna do the shuttles like we did last year, which was really helpful and fun for people to be on Red Engine rides and | 00:48:34 | |
whatnot. So it's just gonna get better and better. We Christie's already working on bands for certain areas. Certain districts | 00:48:40 | |
we're adding in Forest Hill this year because they weren't on it last year. There's tons of restaurants there, so it's exciting. | 00:48:46 | |
It's looking looking good for end of September. Our first ever Rock in the Jewel happened last Thursday. Now it will be the last | 00:48:53 | |
Friday of every month. | 00:48:59 | |
That we're now we have a first Friday event and the last Friday events. | 00:49:05 | |
And those will go through October and it was really fun. And what else am I leaving out? I feel ohh well car week obviously. So | 00:49:09 | |
there are four car week events in Pacific Grove starting on Tuesday as the classic Motorsports. | 00:49:16 | |
Um, these all happen. I believe plastic is like. | 00:49:23 | |
Two to six is the show but things get shut down and and you know cars are being parked during the day. That's on Tuesday. | 00:49:26 | |
Wednesday is the little car show on Lighthouse Ave. These are both lighthouse. | 00:49:32 | |
Same kind of time frame and footprint. Thursday is a break on Lighthouse, which is nice. You could have break on one day because | 00:49:39 | |
that event happens out at the golf course. That's Legends of the Autobahn and that is from morning until. | 00:49:46 | |
Early afternoon I believe they start at 9 and and at 3 ish. Judging and whatnot happens right after that. And then the final event | 00:49:54 | |
which is amazing, it's the PG wrote a Rotary is auto rally back on lighthouse on Friday. They do the auto rally on lighthouse and | 00:50:01 | |
then they do a drive as well at the very end. | 00:50:07 | |
All of these bring people to town, which is nice, And the Bubbly Benz contracts. They did do their first cleaning, but they didn't | 00:50:15 | |
do the tops and so I had a conversation. The tops will be cleaned. They're going to do that next round right before car week so | 00:50:23 | |
that we can look nice and shiny for all the guests that come into town. And I have told businesses before, you might not be a car | 00:50:30 | |
business, but if you even have a card with a picture of a car on it, put it in your front window. | 00:50:37 | |
A piece of art that is correlated. Anything to draw the people who are here into your storefront. And it doesn't have to have | 00:50:45 | |
anything to do with your business at all. It could literally be, you know, a painting or a toy car. I've seen one little toy car | 00:50:52 | |
in front of a realtor's office and it just shows. You're kind of part of it. I don't like what you're talking about looking down | 00:51:00 | |
purple. So think about if you can clean your storefront areas outside, pick the weeds out. | 00:51:07 | |
Maybe we're we are in the window of people arriving already for this event that happens in two weeks. So now is the time to do | 00:51:15 | |
some sprucing up on the outside if you can. Yeah. Is there any poster or for Car Week? Yeah, we actually do have one. We can. | 00:51:23 | |
Come to the chamber office. We'll print a few of them. We have one that we do and it's inside Carbon Magazine. And then we also | 00:51:33 | |
put it in the. | 00:51:36 | |
The areas. | 00:51:40 | |
Marketing as well once we get closer. So that's now. So yeah, we'll bring one. | 00:51:43 | |
Anything else That's all happening within a few weeks. Just everything. | 00:51:49 | |
Yeah. | 00:51:54 | |
Alright ohh. | 00:51:55 | |
Yes, Can I ask what's happening with the? | 00:51:57 | |
So that St. building which so 520, yes, the one that's. | 00:52:00 | |
Was having issues with getting their electricity. That was their transformer was the delay and that was months and months of delay | 00:52:07 | |
is now fixed. So they do have their transformer and their units are now hooked up, which is nice. | 00:52:14 | |
And they still have a few of the. | 00:52:22 | |
Top apartments or condos to sell the bottom floor. They've got most of it filled. Muse Gallery is coming over and opening another | 00:52:26 | |
location. Simon Bowles painting, if you know him, is filling one of the spaces. Builder supplies in one and then one is a Realtors | 00:52:33 | |
office. But there is also a belief that. | 00:52:40 | |
Huge spot in the front that hasn't been filled yet, so slowly but surely taking way longer than what it was proposed. But that is | 00:52:47 | |
kind of normal these days. Sidewalks are open, doors are open, lights are on kind of thing, but no grand opening yet. They were | 00:52:55 | |
hoping to do a grand opening sometime at the end of this year where they invite the public and hey, we're open now, so. | 00:53:02 | |
Movie theaters, old and strong. The suggestion that was made, the proposal that was going to be made for that area was pulled off | 00:53:12 | |
the council agenda. | 00:53:17 | |
Table to no date certain so I don't know what's happening with it because it's. | 00:53:23 | |
Just in no man's land right now. | 00:53:29 | |
And it's not on the agenda for this Wednesday either. | 00:53:32 | |
America, Bank of America. They have started renovations on the inside, on the interior. Some of these taking it. No, not. Well, | 00:53:35 | |
somebody bought the building. Yeah, so they still have at least. | 00:53:41 | |
I think they've at least one of the two properties, so they're starting to do stuff, but it's all internal, you can't see much. | 00:53:47 | |
And then they started the demo on. | 00:53:54 | |
Which one? Ohh PG hotel so that is. | 00:53:57 | |
That is supposed to actually start the end of August. There's, there's sign. I know the guy that owns Ohh. Yeah. Yeah. There's | 00:54:02 | |
signs up that say like demo is imminent. So within this month. Yeah, yeah, they're already in there like. | 00:54:09 | |
Chase fell out of escrow. | 00:54:18 | |
Yeah, so there was someone who bought Chase and then they the escrow fell out. So they're now looking for. | 00:54:20 | |
Someone else? Yeah, Another buyer. And that's just the buyer of the building, not tenants. | 00:54:29 | |
Which isn't bad at this. It's going to need them. I know you did. | 00:54:34 | |
Building downtown. | 00:54:39 | |
It's pretty big. I was trying to think of a square footage. Do you remember it was like 9000 something? | 00:54:44 | |
So, yeah, and there are the proposal for the the one prior who was was in escrow was housing on top, you know retail and kind of | 00:54:51 | |
similar to what it's been there for. | 00:54:57 | |
The Chase Bank. One thing, yeah. The the one who fell out of escrow that they were going to do with it. | 00:55:05 | |
Still waiting for Coastal Commission hearing currently. | 00:55:13 | |
Not a whole lot of news coming out of that, unfortunately, right now. | 00:55:18 | |
Is there a long holdings, very long haul? Well, I know that that one in particular is it is that one piece that they have to have | 00:55:24 | |
the hearing to move forward. There was some interest of having a meeting from I think a couple of the. | 00:55:32 | |
The commissioners that that meeting didn't happen. I think it was scheduled for last week that didn't happen. So it's just sort of | 00:55:41 | |
you know, waiting game and a lot of. | 00:55:46 | |
Pushing things down the road, which is unfortunate because we all lose when things keep getting. | 00:55:51 | |
Getting pushed and pushed. So is there anything that? | 00:55:56 | |
With the Council. | 00:56:00 | |
That we should be aware of anything that. | 00:56:02 | |
It's coming up that needs support. | 00:56:05 | |
As far as business related there? | 00:56:08 | |
Well, OK. On the Parklands right now, yeah, that's The thing is there were quite a few business items on the agenda that they all | 00:56:14 | |
got pulled off because they had other things and they had to go back to. | 00:56:20 | |
Possession. So. | 00:56:26 | |
The majority of those things were pulled off and they were business related, but none of them have been rescheduled to a desert, | 00:56:28 | |
so. | 00:56:33 | |
We're OK for now. We put it to years and strong. | 00:56:40 | |
In. | 00:56:46 | |
Right, so. | 00:56:48 | |
Done. | 00:56:50 | |
June the 30th, so this is. | 00:56:51 | |
Amongst all, very quickly. | 00:56:55 | |
We're almost already around to start Spring. | 00:56:57 | |
And then we'll go into Maine. And if they want to take it down, we have to take it down. And well, I think, yeah, I actually wrote | 00:57:02 | |
to ask some information on this because it would be sheer lunacy to start demolition and construction in our high schools, right. | 00:57:09 | |
So once the permit. | 00:57:17 | |
Finishes on 30th of June. It's. | 00:57:24 | |
You know, it would be very considerate if the Council would. | 00:57:28 | |
Postpone any kind of work until after the high school in September and October are beautiful months. They're also very busy, so | 00:57:33 | |
it's like, you know, just the wrong time of year. So November could be a start date for any work. That would be awesome, I know. | 00:57:40 | |
I feel that. | 00:57:50 | |
Our outgoing city manager was very pro economic vitality and. | 00:57:52 | |
You know, I think maybe our support for getting a new city manager who also feels that businesses are. | 00:57:57 | |
I don't know. Once we get our group together, you know? | 00:58:07 | |
Typically typically on new hires, they have a community panel along with a professional panel so. | 00:58:12 | |
And you know, hopefully. | 00:58:18 | |
You know there is business. | 00:58:20 | |
In that room as well, you know, as part of part of the pieces of the community, so. | 00:58:23 | |
That's going to be voted on tomorrow. No, no interim. Just acting. No interim. Ohh shoot. | 00:58:30 | |
Hold on. It is, yeah. The finance director, Cortana, is on it. Hold on. | 00:58:37 | |
Exactly. | 00:58:42 | |
2 seconds, 2 seconds. | 00:58:44 | |
First item. | 00:58:46 | |
City manager Pro Tem. | 00:58:50 | |
With hiring authority effective immediately and that would be Tora Hannah, that's the one that's along, yeah. She's the finance | 00:58:52 | |
director currently. And then also this is the recommended action motion to direct the city attorney to prepare the ordinance to | 00:58:59 | |
amend the salary schedule motion to create City manager recruitment subcommittee. | 00:59:05 | |
And then or alternately discuss and take other actions. So those are all the different. | 00:59:13 | |
Pieces that are on the agenda and it is the first thing on the City Council agenda on Wednesday at 6:00 PM. | 00:59:18 | |
And you can attend either in person at City Hall or online. And if you don't have that log in, every single Monday, the chamber | 00:59:24 | |
sends out an e-mail, our e-news called the Spotlight. And I always put the links in for you to just click on. So just look for the | 00:59:32 | |
Spotlight and it'll be right there. And then we also post the videos of the prior meeting as well in that e-mail so that you can | 00:59:39 | |
look back as well at at what what happens. Well, so we're just trying to. | 00:59:46 | |
You know, communicate everything as as best we can. | 00:59:54 | |
All right. | 00:59:59 | |
We are at 9:31, so we do need to adjourn exactly. | 01:00:01 | |
They're coming and we'll see you next month. | 01:00:07 | |
Yeah. Thank you, guys. | 01:00:12 | |
I'm excited about the logo. | 01:00:14 |
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And then ohh boy. | 00:00:07 | |
All right, everyone. I'm going to call this meeting of the downtown business improvement districts special meeting to order at. | 00:00:11 | |
831 M. | 00:00:19 | |
And all of the people that we have online and in the room have met each other. We all know one another. So we can skip past | 00:00:22 | |
welcome and introductions and go straight to public comment on items that are not currently on the agenda today. | 00:00:30 | |
Do we have anybody online or in the room that would like to make public comments? | 00:00:38 | |
Looking. | 00:00:44 | |
I'm OK. | 00:00:47 | |
OK. | 00:00:48 | |
Anyone in the room have any public comment? | 00:00:49 | |
All right. Moving right along. | 00:00:52 | |
We are taking up this item again because we didn't have copies at our last meeting. So what you had sent to you as Advisory Board | 00:00:56 | |
was the budget that is part of the annual report for each one of the. | 00:01:03 | |
Assessment districts and you have to do this in March. And so number one, that's always a trick. But Laurie Friday at the City, | 00:01:12 | |
she helps me every year do estimates and whatnot. But you do have to turn this in pretty early. So the numbers are. | 00:01:19 | |
They're all an estimate for what we think we're going to have in 2324, which is also why I printed out for the Advisory Board the | 00:01:28 | |
current balance sheet and the reason why it wasn't in the packet was because. | 00:01:34 | |
I don't have access to this. My bookkeeper does and Two is out of town, so I just got it yesterday. So everyone in the room has a | 00:01:40 | |
copy. Laurie, I will give you a copy of it to post after the meetings for the public inside as well. | 00:01:46 | |
So as you can see, if you look from one to the other, we're not that far off as far as what we have in the bank and what we | 00:01:53 | |
estimated we would have in banks. So we're pretty unpar, which makes me happy. It's kind of nice to see them close to one another. | 00:02:01 | |
And the reason why this was on the agenda at the last meeting was because we were making determination about the donation to the | 00:02:09 | |
youth ambassadors. And and I had said that last year we had donated, if you look in the in the different line items, community | 00:02:16 | |
projects or promotion of events, we had given money to the Butterfly days to Dixie Lane last year. She's not going to be doing | 00:02:24 | |
extra things this year for that program. So it felt like a natural. | 00:02:31 | |
Please put those those monies. | 00:02:39 | |
So this is just open discussion. Anybody have any questions about? | 00:02:42 | |
How this is typically laid out. I'm using a pretty similar template from what you've used for the VIP for probably over a decade, | 00:02:48 | |
so I'm not changing much in here. I am just putting a little bit more detail so you can see advertising broken down a little bit. | 00:02:55 | |
Again, the budget typically is around 34,000 for the full fiscal year. It looks like we will be right there this year as well. | 00:03:03 | |
It's not a ton, but it's enough to do some projects and makes me. | 00:03:08 | |
Any questions? | 00:03:17 | |
I can go out to public comment as well. On this item, there's one who wants to. | 00:03:20 | |
Nobody in the room, what should we put should guide to PG. So this is a 2 page spread of anyone who's so the guide VG is something | 00:03:29 | |
with the Chamber of Commerce says one here If the benefit our membership and we give those things out we're going to run through | 00:03:36 | |
all of them this year, which we haven't done in a while. It's been a few years so it's very exciting. We have a two page spread | 00:03:43 | |
that lists any person who is in the downtown Business Improvement District that isn't already in the guide and the listing is. | 00:03:50 | |
That spread, that said, downtown business group, district number. So those are all the businesses that are in the BID are listed | 00:03:57 | |
in our guide a little bit differently from our members. Our members get that full listing of address, emails and what phone | 00:04:03 | |
numbers this is just ohh Christy help me, I believe it's there. | 00:04:08 | |
Their storefront address, correct? | 00:04:14 | |
Sorry, I'm going out to my staff member. | 00:04:17 | |
Maybe I'll answer here. | 00:04:21 | |
Yes, she is. | 00:04:23 | |
I will bring it next time so you guys can see it. I have examples, but it's it's listed a little bit differently and it is | 00:04:25 | |
specific to to the bid, but everybody is in the back. So we the bid helps with the cost of the back. | 00:04:31 | |
So that's. | 00:04:40 | |
Any questions? You everybody feel like it's pretty basic? | 00:04:44 | |
Seen it? Yeah, it works. And you know, maybe it's a question to put out there for the future is. | 00:04:49 | |
Yeah. Do we have any? | 00:04:57 | |
You know regulations would like to make it. We wanted evaluate things a little bit at some point in the future and. | 00:04:59 | |
And I would suggest that actually when I go to put the the annual report together in March, I know it sounds like a strange time, | 00:05:05 | |
but I think maybe that's a time when we can have the bid look at. | 00:05:11 | |
Look at the the document and see you know is there anything that you'd like to add to it or any just make so maybe we back that up | 00:05:17 | |
and talk start talking about that in February, January, February. | 00:05:22 | |
And it would be interested in maybe having some outreach. You know, just in the course of my day, I often talk to other business | 00:05:28 | |
owners and say, like, hey, you know, how come to the big, like, that's great. I would love to, but 830 doesn't suit. | 00:05:34 | |
So, you know, I don't know a lot of. | 00:05:42 | |
Sit in. | 00:05:46 | |
Participating in some way, but you know they need just something. | 00:05:48 | |
Thanks. | 00:05:51 | |
All right. | 00:05:55 | |
The next item is the logo update discussion, so I'm going to turn it over to. | 00:05:58 | |
We don't have Steve Thomas on, do we? | 00:06:04 | |
No, but I know that you and Steve were working on this, right? I did it. I ended up doing it before. | 00:06:07 | |
Comment. | 00:06:13 | |
Sorry, sorry everybody. And we're in a different room and there's different audio here. | 00:06:17 | |
I'm having a horrible time understanding a lot of the dialogue. Is this being run by an external mic or? | 00:06:21 | |
Is is it being picked up by the internal mic and the camera using? If there's an external mic, it might be better to bring it | 00:06:28 | |
closer to the group. | 00:06:32 | |
Actually, I think it's external. I don't know how far those regions you know. | 00:06:37 | |
No. | 00:06:43 | |
But I can bring it a little bit closer. | 00:06:44 | |
Alright, let's see if that helps. My apologies. Thank you. | 00:06:47 | |
And so we just have a meeting next March to brainstorm about budget and. | 00:06:52 | |
Maybe we'll talk about recruitment subreddit sometime. | 00:07:00 | |
Actually, that's the perfect time. And also talk about the terming out members and serving it. | 00:07:04 | |
So perfect. | 00:07:10 | |
OK. | 00:07:13 | |
So the logo I printed out kind of a guideline for you of kind of what? | 00:07:15 | |
We're thinking if we decide to take it to a contest rather than. | 00:07:21 | |
You know, give it to a graphic designer. I just came up with some kind of brand identity ideas of. | 00:07:28 | |
Kind of which direction we want them to go, as well as technical specifics for file format, how we're going to use it. | 00:07:36 | |
As well as a intellectual property statement and a judging statement just saying that, you know, the Downtown Business Improvement | 00:07:46 | |
District Board would be the judges and we're not responsible for any loss. | 00:07:52 | |
Entry. I just really tried to cover all of our bases in terms of, you know. | 00:07:59 | |
Well, I didn't get it. And you know, why wasn't I? | 00:08:04 | |
The main thing I think is that kind of what I was thinking. I don't know if there is a graphic design class at PG high. | 00:08:10 | |
But it might be interesting to reach out to that instructor because I remember I was at Carmel High in Graphic design and we were | 00:08:20 | |
given an assignment that was a logo contest for a local business or something. I can't remember who it was, but the the instructor | 00:08:27 | |
actually incorporated that into the the class and it was really good because. | 00:08:34 | |
You know, there's some really talented kids at the school, and it might be nice to open that up to them as well, just to make them | 00:08:42 | |
aware, because they're. | 00:08:46 | |
Excited about, you know? | 00:08:50 | |
Those kind of things. I don't know what we would give in terms of a prize. We had talked about, you know, maybe a cash prize. | 00:08:53 | |
Umm. | 00:09:00 | |
But that's kind of open to discussion, but. | 00:09:01 | |
I don't know, you know, in terms of. | 00:09:04 | |
And you can take it. I can e-mail it to you, Jason. | 00:09:07 | |
Umm. | 00:09:11 | |
If there are other descriptive words or other technical things that we want to give to them. | 00:09:12 | |
In terms of what we're looking for, but I made it pretty specific so we should get. | 00:09:18 | |
You know. | 00:09:23 | |
Maybe coffee did a scholarship. | 00:09:25 | |
Like if you win, you get a like $1000 scholarship towards college or something. That might be cool. | 00:09:28 | |
But that would only be if they were high school, high school students. And this is going to be a mix, right? Yeah, we were | 00:09:33 | |
thinking cool. | 00:09:37 | |
Component though, yeah. | 00:09:41 | |
Umm. | 00:09:43 | |
But. | 00:09:44 | |
You know and I put in there that we have the right to change it if we need to tweak it to fit our needs and. | 00:09:46 | |
I don't know so. | 00:09:55 | |
Looks good to me. | 00:09:57 | |
I love that idea of having. | 00:09:58 | |
A younger perspective because it's hard to move ourselves out of the. | 00:10:00 | |
The Leeward amounts. | 00:10:06 | |
Nice to see. Yeah, I do need to open it up to public comment and then we'll come back. Is there anyone in the public that is | 00:10:08 | |
interested in? | 00:10:13 | |
Speaking on this item and then we'll bring it back for further discussion. It doesn't look like anyone's. | 00:10:19 | |
OK. | 00:10:24 | |
Well, I think we should go ahead and do it. | 00:10:27 | |
That's a contest, so we want to vote on that or yeah, it's. | 00:10:29 | |
We can. It's not specifically agendas, but we can vote on moving forward with. | 00:10:34 | |
This contest, I think potentially we need to ask the city. | 00:10:41 | |
If there's anything that they need to look at because we are through the city, so I don't think so. But I think we should be able | 00:10:45 | |
to do this. And I mean I think we need to make obviously this is just an outline to make it. | 00:10:51 | |
Pretty, yeah. For, you know, However, we're going to present it if it's. | 00:10:57 | |
I don't know. On the website on, yeah, you know. | 00:11:02 | |
However, we need to go out to the public. Social media, yeah. | 00:11:06 | |
Right. | 00:11:11 | |
And now it's a good time if you're going to take it up to the high school, because they're just starting. | 00:11:12 | |
Yeah. | 00:11:16 | |
Jason and Christy, I know you guys are online. Is, is the sound any better? Is it still pretty muffled? | 00:11:20 | |
It's a little bit better. It's a. | 00:11:27 | |
I might donate a microphone to you guys, but yeah, yeah, it's it's a little better. | 00:11:30 | |
You need to. | 00:11:35 | |
OK, so next steps then, Yeah. | 00:11:37 | |
Would you be able to talk to the city? | 00:11:40 | |
Yeah, I'll, yeah, I'll, I'll send it to where I can send it and see if I can just get an answer. The only thing I worry or worry | 00:11:43 | |
about, I would think it would be the city attorney. | 00:11:48 | |
My guess? | 00:11:54 | |
If there's anything. | 00:11:55 | |
And the. | 00:11:57 | |
For some reason they feel like they would be held liable for something so just because it it's the the sort of drag on our. | 00:11:58 | |
Because we meet some frequently, would it be possible to send an e-mail out and say? | 00:12:07 | |
And have a go ahead or if you want to put it in place now or going away to the next meeting. | 00:12:12 | |
Well, I think that the commit committee, it's UNC. If so, can we can give them the go ahead to just keep moving with it up to the | 00:12:19 | |
point of actually launching it. OK. So whatever needs to be done between now and then and then launching, we'll just get the OK | 00:12:24 | |
for the next meeting we'll have the. | 00:12:30 | |
The campaign ready to launch this, does that work for you? Yeah. And I think maybe, I don't know if Steve's team can put together | 00:12:38 | |
a flyer, whatever it is, and the the social media component to that, I can contact him about that and just say we, you know, | 00:12:44 | |
agreed to get this going and we're just. | 00:12:49 | |
Checking with the city attorney, but let's, you know, get moving. Would we like to have a? | 00:12:55 | |
Page on the city website where it says something like if you own a business in downtown Pacific Rd. we welcome you. | 00:13:01 | |
There. | 00:13:07 | |
It mentions the BID on the city website. Yeah, so the the BD has their description page on the city website. | 00:13:09 | |
We could ask if they could put this contest on there as a as a button for people to download. | 00:13:18 | |
Well, I was just thinking like this is part of our future, like you know now that we're doing a logo, we like to make that page a | 00:13:25 | |
little bit more meaningful in terms of like inviting people to come to the. | 00:13:31 | |
Once, maybe you could kill that bird with. | 00:13:38 | |
But the same stone, Yes. Well, you could talk to. Yeah, that'll be two different people, but that's OK. | 00:13:41 | |
It's alright, but I will talk about it. | 00:13:49 | |
Yeah. | 00:13:53 | |
That's a logical place to. | 00:13:55 | |
So part of the same kind of. | 00:13:57 | |
Umm. | 00:13:59 | |
Upgrade, yeah. | 00:14:01 | |
OK. | 00:14:04 | |
That has excellent statement. | 00:14:06 | |
I mean. | 00:14:12 | |
Ohh no no, go for it because this is all actually these are all yours so. | 00:14:14 | |
Steve was actually going to be looking at Steve, but OK, well, I'll move on then to. | 00:14:18 | |
Agenda item 6A All are welcome business signage so. | 00:14:27 | |
As you probably aware, last month during Pride Month, some legislation was passed Supreme Court saying that businesses don't have | 00:14:32 | |
to serve people that if it offends their religion and so. | 00:14:40 | |
And that's kind of a big thing and it's not about education, it's not about, it's about businesses and we are businesses and and. | 00:14:48 | |
I spoke to the local pride. | 00:14:56 | |
Nonprofit and. | 00:15:00 | |
Of. | 00:15:02 | |
Their board member that I spoke to and said, you know, honestly they're not expecting, you know, a huge backlash in our community, | 00:15:03 | |
but we do have a large LGBTQ community and they said. | 00:15:10 | |
What's? | 00:15:19 | |
Ideally they would like to know if any business did not want to serve them. | 00:15:20 | |
But I don't think people are going to put that on the board. | 00:15:25 | |
So they're saying, you know what would be positive and kind of it's just an umbrella thing anyway, is there are the signs that say | 00:15:28 | |
all are welcome? | 00:15:33 | |
And so just as a statement that you know, in these times we are. | 00:15:39 | |
Inclusive and we. | 00:15:46 | |
You know the value of community members, it's they were just saying, you know, it would be a nice thing for businesses to do. | 00:15:48 | |
So I thought that was something was mentioning with the ID. | 00:15:57 | |
Meeting and there's different ways that you could go forward with this. One is just. | 00:16:00 | |
You know, we don't do anything collectively, just individually. People will put signs up or we could make a statement as a BID | 00:16:07 | |
group saying. | 00:16:11 | |
We welcome all people in our community. | 00:16:16 | |
And you know then that statement is kind of on record as us having a position on this topic, we could even reach out to the ID | 00:16:21 | |
numbers and say hey you know this is. | 00:16:27 | |
Suggestion. Would you know if you feel that you would like to? | 00:16:35 | |
Make a statement about inclusivity. I've been seeing a lot of major business, I mean like huge corporation businesses with like | 00:16:42 | |
window claims. That's what I was just thinking about something which, you know, I have vendors that can print that kind of thing. | 00:16:49 | |
So, you know, if we came up with a design for one, you know, 4 Pacific growth, it might be neat that, you know, we could. | 00:16:56 | |
Give them to anybody, any businesses who are. | 00:17:03 | |
You know, I'd be willing to donate those to any businesses who would want them, just so it's very visible. And yeah, I think the | 00:17:06 | |
window plan is approved as well. | 00:17:10 | |
First thing that popped into my, you know, saying my business alone. I mean, I get people who come in and say, do you do wedding | 00:17:15 | |
invitations for same sex couples? And I'm like, of course I do, you know, I'm like, you know, I'll you know, but for them to have | 00:17:20 | |
to come to me and ask me. | 00:17:25 | |
You know, that could be uncomfortable, but it's like if it's on my window. | 00:17:30 | |
You know, we we get a lot too. But there's like you said a small community. So they go like sharing. Larry, you don't care, right? | 00:17:34 | |
Yeah. You know if you need anything go see that because they welcome us kind of thing and I know that we get a lot of positive | 00:17:39 | |
feedback because we. | 00:17:44 | |
Two lesbian daughters. Yeah, yeah, right. But but I know we do get a lot of business because we, you know, are inclusive. | 00:17:51 | |
Well, I was told that we've been told. | 00:18:00 | |
They we have been considered a safe restaurant, right? I mean it is it is a big deal. It is business too. I was wondering if. | 00:18:03 | |
Potentially we could do like a cost proposal maybe and get kind of a. | 00:18:11 | |
How much would it cost us to do that if the bid where to buy a certain number of them and then our members could anybody who wants | 00:18:16 | |
them, you know contact, they can contact the chamber, we can have them there and then we we would either deliver them or they can. | 00:18:23 | |
Pick them up. As far as doing making some sort of a statement from the actual bid itself, I think it would be a good idea to | 00:18:29 | |
survey the members if you were to say we were going to come out with a joint statement, so you can absolutely survey the members | 00:18:36 | |
on that and do these simultaneously if you'd like, but definitely getting. | 00:18:43 | |
We could tell them it's available, you know, Yeah, survey the members and if you want one. | 00:18:51 | |
Here's what we've come up with. Those are two separate paths. One, we'll go ahead and make available some details for shops and | 00:18:56 | |
people who want to, and secondly, we'll. | 00:19:01 | |
I just do a survey. Could you help me do that? | 00:19:08 | |
Yeah, absolutely. The wording is really important. | 00:19:13 | |
What? You know how much? | 00:19:18 | |
Coverage it means for the group and all that kind of thing. So yeah, that would be great. | 00:19:21 | |
OK. That is a plan then. Thank you. | 00:19:25 | |
So that's what I'm wondering is if if we had imprinted once we have the logo, just so it's kind of. | 00:19:30 | |
A branded, you know it doesn't have to be big but just that it's hey, this is the downtown improvement if this if the members | 00:19:37 | |
agree that. | 00:19:41 | |
That's a that's something they want to support. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, that's a good. | 00:19:46 | |
Yeah, for sure. | 00:19:53 | |
But also, I think all of these can be happening, yeah? | 00:19:54 | |
Yeah. | 00:20:00 | |
Umm. | 00:20:01 | |
Override. | 00:20:02 | |
Design or Philosophy? | 00:20:03 | |
That you have for we reserve the right to refuse service. | 00:20:06 | |
To anyone because sometimes you get an obnoxious. | 00:20:10 | |
Oh yeah, yeah. | 00:20:14 | |
No, I think it's all are welcome and we have the right to reserve. | 00:20:16 | |
Because that means it's it's on the vape, on your character and your behavior. Like, they're totally different. Like, you're | 00:20:21 | |
welcome, but you know, if you don't, if you're a ******** we get to kick you out. | 00:20:27 | |
The rainbow thing, then you know that. | 00:20:34 | |
Right. | 00:20:38 | |
And if you go? | 00:20:40 | |
Yes, that's the. That's because I don't have anything on my businesses. I have the right to refuse, but I've got people to leave | 00:20:42 | |
before. I haven't seen the all our welcome signage window cleanings yet. I'd love to see what they look like. The one that I saw | 00:20:48 | |
recently, I think it was at. | 00:20:53 | |
Yeah, the other day was a rainbow, like the colors. I think it also included Rams. | 00:20:59 | |
You know, like all the colors and it just have simple type and white over it looks all over welcome. OK. | 00:21:07 | |
But I mean it could be whatever you know you want it to be. But I we probably, I can probably Google. | 00:21:14 | |
40 examples of what they look like you know, but. | 00:21:20 | |
You know. | 00:21:24 | |
Just It's very visible when it's removed because it's just like, oh, there it is, yeah. | 00:21:25 | |
And I think I mean it may not seem like a lot. | 00:21:31 | |
To you. But it means ohh absolutely some people in our community. | 00:21:34 | |
With all this time. | 00:21:41 | |
Supportive so, OK. | 00:21:44 | |
Great. Then we have that plan for that as well, so. | 00:21:47 | |
Any company public comments or? | 00:21:51 | |
For further discussion from the boards, No. See nothing. Let's move on to the next. | 00:21:56 | |
So the. | 00:22:05 | |
Alzheimer's Association, as you may know, is a very huge national nonprofit and they do a huge event every year. The major | 00:22:08 | |
fundraiser is a walk to raise money. | 00:22:14 | |
And they haven't had in Monterey. | 00:22:20 | |
And it's. | 00:22:26 | |
After earlier delivery. | 00:22:27 | |
So the they had approached Eric Upman at the Cannery Row Company. Just ask them if Cannery Row would do in a like a a promotion | 00:22:29 | |
for them. | 00:22:34 | |
And. | 00:22:41 | |
He just said being Cannery Row, with all the heavy tourist stuff, you didn't think that it would fly very well. But then he asked | 00:22:41 | |
me if specific group would be interested in doing something to support their walk. So basically it's an event called. | 00:22:49 | |
Paint the town purple and for a week you have local businesses. | 00:22:56 | |
Like put purple balloons or purple. | 00:23:02 | |
Something anything on their business and give out literature like leaflets from they will supply all this about the Alzheimer's | 00:23:04 | |
Association and and just like have your staff and have everybody tell the passers by hey please sign up for the walk in Monterey. | 00:23:11 | |
So really that's all it is is promoting their walk because they want to get as many people walking as possible have a huge event | 00:23:18 | |
so. | 00:23:24 | |
There's a few strands to it. You can give a prize for the. | 00:23:34 | |
The the most beautiful shop front. And that's all purple. | 00:23:41 | |
You know you can. | 00:23:45 | |
I didn't know that. I think that was the main. | 00:23:48 | |
That was the main initiative. The other things that I read weren't snaps appropriate for us, but it's it's got Wear purple | 00:23:53 | |
clothing. Use purple balloons and purple streamers. Put a purple flower arrangement in your office reception area. Place the paint | 00:24:00 | |
the town purple. Cling in the business window or door. Serve purple food or create a purple dream. Give out purple candies and | 00:24:07 | |
cover it purple into your brand outfit, your crew, and purple uniforms or shirts. | 00:24:13 | |
We're purple wristbands, purple lapel ribbons and campaign so that people ask you like, oh, what's that for? You say Ohh. | 00:24:21 | |
Fundraiser so and. | 00:24:29 | |
It's. | 00:24:31 | |
It's a constant. I personally care a lot about having had family members that have. | 00:24:32 | |
Yeah. | 00:24:40 | |
Suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's. | 00:24:41 | |
And yeah, anything. I mean, there are some amazing breakthroughs that have you seen in the news. There's some like really, really | 00:24:46 | |
promising treatments. And that's all thanks to this kind of thing. | 00:24:51 | |
Being just, you know, steadily to their cars, so. | 00:24:57 | |
And. | 00:25:00 | |
It's. | 00:25:02 | |
You know, I I don't know. The bandwidth of business owners is always stretched and I don't know if. | 00:25:03 | |
We feel that there would be uptake. I wouldn't wanna do it unless we felt like people would give it a a good effort. | 00:25:10 | |
But should I just throw it out for discussion? It's kind of a minimal effort. It's the decorating, you know and and spreading the | 00:25:19 | |
word. | 00:25:23 | |
Is Monterey. | 00:25:28 | |
Downtown Monterey doing anything for it. So it's it's going to be in Monterey. That's a good question. OK. Is it that it starts at | 00:25:31 | |
the board? Yeah. It's all moderates and it's yes, it is somewhere in the world. | 00:25:37 | |
Yeah. | 00:25:43 | |
But I think they use our bike trail, don't they walk all the way down to leverage point? | 00:25:44 | |
Yes, they do. Yeah. I think they walked from Monterey to Supergirl. Come back. Right. Because I know people who walk into the | 00:25:48 | |
exact route. Yeah. But I I believe that's. | 00:25:53 | |
That's what early, yeah, on the bike? | 00:25:58 | |
Responsible So. | 00:26:02 | |
Right. Well, even more. | 00:26:04 | |
Immediate then that's something you actually walking through town. That's that's cool. | 00:26:08 | |
Early October is actually a really, I would think, a good time because it's just before the holidays, so it's not on top of any. | 00:26:14 | |
Other thing that's happening in the in the community believe that pink and breast cancer. | 00:26:22 | |
I mean it's it's the Alzheimer's Association does provide you with like some things, right? | 00:26:30 | |
So it's seems really window they'll give you this then. So it's just us getting the word out to the businesses, OK. | 00:26:39 | |
And, you know, they have a lot of volunteers. They might need to do some of the leg work, right? That would be great, yeah, | 00:26:50 | |
because a lot of times you can send an e-mail, but it's. | 00:26:55 | |
It's different. | 00:27:00 | |
Filipinos are just, I mean, I, you know, it's I think the personal. | 00:27:03 | |
So shall I say to this woman, Allison, who is the local organizer. | 00:27:09 | |
Should I tell her that? | 00:27:14 | |
We're happy to participate. And could she organize it? Yeah, if she, if she's on her end organizing it and we say, you know, | 00:27:17 | |
Pacific Grove, downtown Pacific Grove just wants to participate, then I can give her all of it. Sorry, all of my communication. | 00:27:24 | |
Contacts from the bid and then she can start doing the legwork of of letting people know we'll do it on our end as well. But I | 00:27:33 | |
think if it doesn't cost anybody, yeah, you know, I would say it's unless you wanna be, right, Right. | 00:27:39 | |
And and she did the national press coverage. | 00:27:47 | |
You know, that's that's amazing. And he doesn't know who best coverage too. | 00:27:52 | |
Show that we're offering Community. | 00:27:57 | |
All of these are carrying items. I love it. It's nice. | 00:28:00 | |
I said that's true. | 00:28:06 | |
So. | 00:28:09 | |
Was it something I said? | 00:28:11 | |
No. All right. Well, then any. | 00:28:14 | |
Any comments? | 00:28:18 | |
Let us move on to the next item, which really was what Steve Thomas. | 00:28:24 | |
Introduced last week, which I thought was a kind of an interesting, well, really positive idea actually and. | 00:28:31 | |
I yes, I did. | 00:28:38 | |
Sure. And I'm going to try to remember all the things he said to me. I was having lunch and I was on the phone at the same time. | 00:28:41 | |
So there used to be a group. It was totally informal. It was just that one designee from all of these different groups that | 00:28:48 | |
already exist. | 00:28:55 | |
They would meet once a month and just go over things that may overlap between the different groups. HD, the BID, the chamber, the | 00:29:02 | |
EDC. I don't know about the AC. That's the one question mark I had. I had to ask. And then. | 00:29:09 | |
Could be the arts district. It could be you know any of these groups anyway, but the the point of the meeting was to see if there | 00:29:17 | |
was any overlap or if one group is looking for support from other groups that that's the way to kind of take the. | 00:29:25 | |
The micro and maybe macro and let people understand and all of these different groups, what's going on with maybe 1 industry | 00:29:34 | |
sector in particular. So Steve said this used to exist. So it's not outside of the character of what PG has done in the past. He | 00:29:41 | |
does have notes about how it was loosely organized because it wasn't, it was just. | 00:29:48 | |
A meeting, like I said informally, but he has all of that documentation from when it existed prior, way prior to COVID, I believe, | 00:29:56 | |
from when we spoke. | 00:30:01 | |
So that's also why I was hoping Steve Thomas was here because he has all of that detail for us. | 00:30:07 | |
And perhaps what we can do is I can ask Steve to do a presentation on our next meeting to let us know how it was loosely | 00:30:13 | |
organized. | 00:30:17 | |
And how we can maybe not have to work harder, but work smarter and use use a template that's been used before so. | 00:30:23 | |
I think that's a really good idea, he said specifically. | 00:30:31 | |
You know it's. | 00:30:35 | |
You know in terms of community, if local businesses work together and that they're organized together that we do have a stronger | 00:30:37 | |
voice and it's just it's just a way also like not just our. | 00:30:43 | |
Organizing amongst ourselves to being more effective with other business You know in our network it's it's also it has a public | 00:30:50 | |
facing side as well to one is does this we have a we have a district meeting every month where all the different clubs from the | 00:30:58 | |
area get together and we tell the other what we're doing and then if we need like Monterey Club was running the food or the wine | 00:31:06 | |
bar at the US Open and they obviously. | 00:31:13 | |
That members to support everything. So they come and say, hey this is what we're doing, we're gonna have a tent and everybody | 00:31:21 | |
wants to come volunteer, will give the club dollars or whatever, you know, but but that's how we work as an organization, so we do | 00:31:26 | |
our own thing and then we. | 00:31:31 | |
Have a. | 00:31:37 | |
Everybody gets together and just says this is what we're doing. | 00:31:39 | |
Well, I mean, for instance, the Arts District map is nearly done and so that would be really useful for the HID right now about, | 00:31:42 | |
you know, and. | 00:31:46 | |
So yeah, there's a lot of areas where we can. | 00:31:51 | |
Share strengthen our interests and. | 00:31:54 | |
Help each other. | 00:31:57 | |
Possible so. | 00:31:59 | |
I think it is too. | 00:32:01 | |
Yes. | 00:32:03 | |
And especially the way that they've explained it to me, it was easy for me to understand fairly quickly what the purpose of it was | 00:32:06 | |
and why you. | 00:32:10 | |
Why you would want to do this? Because it doesn't benefit everybody knowing what's happening and I worry about burnout. That's | 00:32:14 | |
only thing I worry about because this is always certain amount of people. Do you know 8020 rule? I don't apologize for stepping | 00:32:19 | |
out but I don't know if it was mentioned but. | 00:32:25 | |
Would this help with? | 00:32:31 | |
Like when things come up like the parklets. | 00:32:33 | |
For making a group statement. | 00:32:37 | |
You know so that it rather than. | 00:32:39 | |
City Council and the mayor getting. | 00:32:42 | |
This many things they get one giant thing saying. | 00:32:45 | |
This group, this group, this group, we're all together and we're all like a coalition. | 00:32:49 | |
Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 00:32:54 | |
Yeah. | 00:32:57 | |
From another morning. | 00:32:59 | |
That's OK. No, absolutely. I think that was the whole purpose and that's why you had the discussion last time. Yeah, And it does. | 00:33:02 | |
So there's there's half 1/2 The other, you know there's sometimes volume is good and sometimes being concise as good as well. So | 00:33:07 | |
depending on what it is, you know. | 00:33:12 | |
Having. | 00:33:18 | |
Having them work work separately as well as together, you know, would be great. | 00:33:20 | |
Anyway, there's a lot of overlap. Yeah, obviously. But it's. Yeah, yeah, it is. And that's that's something that I think is really | 00:33:24 | |
important that each one of these advisory groups and boards has their own identity. And we're we're really the chamber for the BID | 00:33:32 | |
and HD, we're the administrator. You know, we're just the ones kind of making it happen, but it's the advisory boards and the | 00:33:39 | |
groups that actually push the direction of what's happening. So I like them having their own voices in their own. | 00:33:47 | |
Identity. I think that's a good thing. | 00:33:55 | |
Yeah, absolutely. | 00:33:58 | |
But then that takes us through all the agency agenda item six. Could I just ask if there's any comments? | 00:34:00 | |
I made my comment. Thank you. | 00:34:11 | |
Thank you, Jason. We love you. | 00:34:13 | |
I'll be back. | 00:34:16 | |
Board members. | 00:34:21 | |
That's usually you're really ohh, sure, I'll go around the room. Why don't we start online because we haven't heard a lot from | 00:34:23 | |
you. Jason, what's going on in your world? | 00:34:28 | |
In the world of the BID, not much. Do you wanna hear beyond that? Because I got a lot to say on a personal note. | 00:34:36 | |
This is this is the time to talk about business updates. So if you have any business updates. | 00:34:43 | |
Yeah, I could just talk about, I mean things we have scheduled. | 00:34:51 | |
For me, me personally, would be. | 00:34:56 | |
We have several events lined up. The big, big one, which I want everybody in Pacific Grove to come to, is a large party. In fact, | 00:34:59 | |
the Chamber is helping to organize music for it. Now is on September 9th. We have new exhibits coming up. | 00:35:07 | |
And we'll have live music they'll be served and and wine served and so everybody is invited to that. We do have a movie night | 00:35:16 | |
coming on August 25th. There's a local guy named Craig Lovell who's a photographer who did a documentary film on. Don't know if | 00:35:21 | |
anybody's ever heard of Jerry Osman. | 00:35:27 | |
But he's a very well known photographer, kind of from the Ansel Ansel Adams era. | 00:35:34 | |
And we'll be screening a documentary at the gallery on that. And then, you know, some other things. But those are the two big ones | 00:35:41 | |
that I wanted to tell everybody about. | 00:35:45 | |
Ohh, thank you. | 00:35:51 | |
Moving down the table, Miss Loftus. | 00:35:53 | |
Kind of. | 00:35:56 | |
Same I think sentiment as everybody else. It's this year's just kind of been flat I think, but we did. | 00:35:57 | |
We have seen a little bit of pickup with summer traffic. | 00:36:05 | |
But I'm, you know, I just finished doing all of my holiday ordering and I'm just proceeding as normal because my. | 00:36:10 | |
Theory is is if you don't have it to sell, you can't sell it so. | 00:36:18 | |
You know, the shop is going to be very full of merchandise and it's like, you know, sometimes my. | 00:36:23 | |
My Angel mom sitting on my shoulder going but but you know. | 00:36:30 | |
My employees are all happy. | 00:36:36 | |
Everybody's employed, everybody's working. | 00:36:38 | |
So. | 00:36:41 | |
Nothing to complain about, really. | 00:36:42 | |
That's good insights, yeah. | 00:36:45 | |
Well, my employees are unhappy too, and that makes us very yes, we can be. | 00:36:48 | |
So we're business, but everybody's happy we're good. | 00:36:54 | |
But yeah, it's pretty much the same we're. | 00:36:58 | |
Really from the period of the year until about. | 00:37:03 | |
Business has been. | 00:37:05 | |
Suppressed. | 00:37:06 | |
But it's just picked up recently. | 00:37:08 | |
And I think for us it's picked up because. | 00:37:10 | |
The Conference Center seems to be busier. And where there's that compression? | 00:37:13 | |
We start to feel the bump in in business. | 00:37:18 | |
Not because we're getting groups. | 00:37:22 | |
But because other places are full and they're looking elsewhere. | 00:37:23 | |
But the monetary conference? | 00:37:32 | |
Yeah, I'm not sure about the I see the moderate Conference Center because they walk by it every day. | 00:37:35 | |
And there's a lot of buzz and bodies coming out and getting a big. | 00:37:40 | |
Buses and it's that kind of activity and they do feed people, yeah. | 00:37:46 | |
They've been really, you know, waiting for this. | 00:37:51 | |
For the command center that bump up, Yeah, but. | 00:37:54 | |
Yeah, everything is going according to plan, as busy as. | 00:37:58 | |
As we are, and it's good, but you know, we are used to going up incrementally year by year. And of course that's not happening | 00:38:04 | |
now. But yeah, but it's not happening for anyone. So yeah, yeah, I know that's that's a sad thing that I say often is that you're | 00:38:10 | |
not alone. But it doesn't make it feel any better. | 00:38:17 | |
I think that's that's true, that's true. And my best friend works, he does bookings at Bernardis and they've been down. But August | 00:38:25 | |
is phenomenal car week. I think it's going to be very strong just based on his comments alone, but. | 00:38:33 | |
They do, you know. | 00:38:41 | |
Just want seeing lot more. | 00:38:43 | |
Treatment field. | 00:38:46 | |
Five night minimum for car week? Yeah, so. | 00:38:50 | |
At their prices, yeah, it's like it's but. But people are desperate. They're calling hotels and they're not finding availability. | 00:38:55 | |
Peninsula wide So. | 00:39:04 | |
That's a good thing. | 00:39:06 | |
No. | 00:39:08 | |
Yeah. | 00:39:08 | |
Liz. | 00:39:10 | |
Yeah, You talk about the business. I'll just mention a few things about like events. | 00:39:12 | |
There's for the Arts District for anyone who's interested, or, you know, people who are interested. Our next community meeting is | 00:39:19 | |
on September the 28th. | 00:39:23 | |
And. | 00:39:27 | |
Currently some. | 00:39:29 | |
Projects are ongoing. | 00:39:31 | |
The 12 grading got started, but you had. | 00:39:33 | |
No. | 00:39:38 | |
Yeah, we can't find a sunny day to. | 00:39:40 | |
Make something that you'll see some of that but. | 00:39:45 | |
Yeah, it hasn't. | 00:39:49 | |
OK, that's that. | 00:39:51 | |
We probably be interested to know the economic development Commission is proposing that meeting on Thursday, that to do a kind of | 00:39:55 | |
a 10 year plan and economic plan because there isn't one for the city and you know even a bad plan is better than no plan. So but | 00:40:05 | |
we have, we found a really great resource which like an idiot could do it. It actually is like really easy to come up with the. | 00:40:15 | |
So here we plan. With that, we're excited. | 00:40:25 | |
Will be you know is this gets started we'll be asking a lot of the local businesses to be on the. | 00:40:28 | |
To come in and out of the subcommittees because it's a major project. We're gonna try and do rotating subcommittees so because you | 00:40:36 | |
can only have three members on it and that's not enough, so. | 00:40:41 | |
So we'll be rotating numbers and we'll be inviting. | 00:40:47 | |
People in SO. | 00:40:50 | |
It's super interesting and so if you'd like to be involved with us now, it's. | 00:40:52 | |
That's exciting. | 00:40:58 | |
And so we're going to have a fundraiser dinner for the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust in October. | 00:41:00 | |
Looking for match funding for it because you only make a few $100.00 with these things and you know it's a really important PR. | 00:41:08 | |
Events. | 00:41:15 | |
But also it would be nice if they could. They have such good things going on. | 00:41:16 | |
We're trying. | 00:41:21 | |
I'll say very quickly, and there's a lot of forage fish in our Bay. In forage fish are the teeny tiny fish like smelt and | 00:41:24 | |
anchovies and sardines and. | 00:41:28 | |
Mackerel. And they're super sustainable, really healthy for you and very delicious. And it needs to be fished widely. As you know, | 00:41:34 | |
Monthly became famous because of sardines, but the old timers never taught the young fisherman how to fish for it because the | 00:41:41 | |
sardines anyway. So we do have great regulation to these fish, and there's only one guy in Santa Cruz who knows how to fish these. | 00:41:49 | |
It's a Vietnamese guy. And so we're hoping to get a grant to teach young fishermen how to do this, because this is. | 00:41:56 | |
Net. | 00:42:04 | |
The prisoners that. | 00:42:06 | |
It's well, it's a it's different it's you have a lamp and a net and but you have to have all the knowledge of how the fish behave | 00:42:07 | |
and wind, what times and how you read the conditions and all that and it's a it's a big deal. | 00:42:14 | |
So there's really, when you think about it, we have, you know. | 00:42:20 | |
My card on the table all the time, right? You've got a little bit on the table all the time, but you never see in any restaurant | 00:42:25 | |
these fish. | 00:42:29 | |
How many tables? And you don't really see them for sale from cooks either, so. | 00:42:33 | |
That's. | 00:42:37 | |
Christina. | 00:42:39 | |
Help with that. | 00:42:40 | |
Part of that and it's always fun when he gets fisherman and get huge amazing and competition silly games and we want to drink the | 00:42:42 | |
wine actually. | 00:42:46 | |
You know, it's fun the whole time these days, so it's fun the whole time. | 00:42:52 | |
Walked over. | 00:42:57 | |
Thursday. | 00:42:58 | |
And Liz talked about this the other day and the thing that I love about this grant and this program they're doing is that it | 00:43:01 | |
brings identity back to the Bay. And we have been known for these types of fish. It is part of the identity. So it's kind of I | 00:43:06 | |
like it. I think they're. | 00:43:12 | |
I think people will rally around it. | 00:43:18 | |
Ohh, maybe this would be time to stay at. The Arts District is planning to build up incrementally over the years. | 00:43:21 | |
A summer festival called the Kelp Festival, and that's going to be an arts and Science Festival because we want to be different | 00:43:28 | |
from all the other festivals, right? So And it's very much our PG identity of. | 00:43:34 | |
Because of the marine sanctuary and all the many marine scientists that we have in the area and also a really thriving art | 00:43:40 | |
community and bringing the two together because our science actually go together very. | 00:43:45 | |
Very well. There's amazing ideas. Jason is the brains behind this. Actually, this. Ted talks this. | 00:43:51 | |
You know St. festival, there's a sustainable fish festival or something like that to be part of the food component of it. | 00:44:00 | |
You know, this dance all kinds of things. | 00:44:08 | |
Exciting. It'll start off with just a few events and these small. | 00:44:12 | |
But. | 00:44:16 | |
This is a when you talk about giving identity to the towns, playing on your strengths and doing things that yeah, anyway. | 00:44:17 | |
Has business been? | 00:44:26 | |
It's been slow. It's starting up. | 00:44:28 | |
Groups would be better. | 00:44:34 | |
And it's been so excited about it and. | 00:44:36 | |
I see the. | 00:44:40 | |
To be resilient. | 00:44:43 | |
Please. | 00:44:45 | |
I suppose after. | 00:44:46 | |
35 years and run the school business. | 00:44:48 | |
Which is some ups and downs since the. | 00:44:52 | |
It's just one of those things, right? You just keep doing it. | 00:44:54 | |
The. | 00:45:00 | |
I have the opposite problem. | 00:45:05 | |
So we are partnering with a work room that makes our drivers in Santa Cruz, and they will be. | 00:45:09 | |
Becoming polls during brief second location, so we are extending the process of. | 00:45:18 | |
Pseudo expanding into Santa Cruz because the. | 00:45:24 | |
Gather store that is like what we are up there. | 00:45:28 | |
She's not doing well and she's sick, so she's going to be closing. So we're going to be taking that market share. We've also | 00:45:31 | |
expanded into the Hollister area, so we've been doing a lot more. | 00:45:37 | |
Hollister. | 00:45:42 | |
As you told you before, we've hired 2 new installers. So we have a group of wonderful women, Angel, Deanna. They go around and do | 00:45:45 | |
all their installations and repairs all day. And then Larry. | 00:45:52 | |
As for the last three months, only measured. So he measures and helps them and then they install, and lucky for us, Shay Home. | 00:45:59 | |
Whoever is building all those lovely homes out at the links and everything, whoever they're using for their window coverings is | 00:46:06 | |
horrible. | 00:46:12 | |
Good morning. | 00:46:20 | |
So we are we are the top dealer in Northern California right now, which is really weird. | 00:46:22 | |
Yeah, yeah, I. | 00:46:34 | |
So all three pieces doing well and I think I shovel room. So we're getting a new showroom. Hunter Douglas approached us to put in | 00:46:37 | |
all the new fancy showroom and they are actually giving us. | 00:46:44 | |
$10,000 towards it, which I've been dealing with Hunter Douglas since the 80s. They have never ever ever offered me money before | 00:46:51 | |
so everybody taking off so we're going to we've moved all the shipping receiving out of our little building into my. | 00:47:00 | |
Garage at home. So now all the dogs get the ordinary throat and we're gonna. | 00:47:10 | |
Tear out everything re sheetrock, put in new flooring and paint. | 00:47:15 | |
We will have a giant display cable in the back room where we can like it's about this big where you can put out samples and stuff. | 00:47:21 | |
And then we will also have all the music plays in front room. So false draperies by the end of the year will look completely | 00:47:27 | |
different again. So that's kind of what we're doing. So I have a very high stress level right now. | 00:47:34 | |
But yeah, that's so I can't complain about business. So great. Yeah, I know it's a great success, very positive in this time of | 00:47:42 | |
uncertainty. Yeah, so. | 00:47:47 | |
I love talking about cherries, but. | 00:47:55 | |
A couple of things that are coming up the chamber, we have our flavors of it in September. So obviously we'll be coming to all of | 00:48:00 | |
our restaurant partners, but we also set up wine and beer and cider in particular. | 00:48:08 | |
In other places as well, not just restaurants. So you know, Coldwell Banker, we used their room, Bradley Photographic, we used his | 00:48:18 | |
room so that you're using other businesses to bring people in as well. | 00:48:25 | |
We're gonna do the shuttles like we did last year, which was really helpful and fun for people to be on Red Engine rides and | 00:48:34 | |
whatnot. So it's just gonna get better and better. We Christie's already working on bands for certain areas. Certain districts | 00:48:40 | |
we're adding in Forest Hill this year because they weren't on it last year. There's tons of restaurants there, so it's exciting. | 00:48:46 | |
It's looking looking good for end of September. Our first ever Rock in the Jewel happened last Thursday. Now it will be the last | 00:48:53 | |
Friday of every month. | 00:48:59 | |
That we're now we have a first Friday event and the last Friday events. | 00:49:05 | |
And those will go through October and it was really fun. And what else am I leaving out? I feel ohh well car week obviously. So | 00:49:09 | |
there are four car week events in Pacific Grove starting on Tuesday as the classic Motorsports. | 00:49:16 | |
Um, these all happen. I believe plastic is like. | 00:49:23 | |
Two to six is the show but things get shut down and and you know cars are being parked during the day. That's on Tuesday. | 00:49:26 | |
Wednesday is the little car show on Lighthouse Ave. These are both lighthouse. | 00:49:32 | |
Same kind of time frame and footprint. Thursday is a break on Lighthouse, which is nice. You could have break on one day because | 00:49:39 | |
that event happens out at the golf course. That's Legends of the Autobahn and that is from morning until. | 00:49:46 | |
Early afternoon I believe they start at 9 and and at 3 ish. Judging and whatnot happens right after that. And then the final event | 00:49:54 | |
which is amazing, it's the PG wrote a Rotary is auto rally back on lighthouse on Friday. They do the auto rally on lighthouse and | 00:50:01 | |
then they do a drive as well at the very end. | 00:50:07 | |
All of these bring people to town, which is nice, And the Bubbly Benz contracts. They did do their first cleaning, but they didn't | 00:50:15 | |
do the tops and so I had a conversation. The tops will be cleaned. They're going to do that next round right before car week so | 00:50:23 | |
that we can look nice and shiny for all the guests that come into town. And I have told businesses before, you might not be a car | 00:50:30 | |
business, but if you even have a card with a picture of a car on it, put it in your front window. | 00:50:37 | |
A piece of art that is correlated. Anything to draw the people who are here into your storefront. And it doesn't have to have | 00:50:45 | |
anything to do with your business at all. It could literally be, you know, a painting or a toy car. I've seen one little toy car | 00:50:52 | |
in front of a realtor's office and it just shows. You're kind of part of it. I don't like what you're talking about looking down | 00:51:00 | |
purple. So think about if you can clean your storefront areas outside, pick the weeds out. | 00:51:07 | |
Maybe we're we are in the window of people arriving already for this event that happens in two weeks. So now is the time to do | 00:51:15 | |
some sprucing up on the outside if you can. Yeah. Is there any poster or for Car Week? Yeah, we actually do have one. We can. | 00:51:23 | |
Come to the chamber office. We'll print a few of them. We have one that we do and it's inside Carbon Magazine. And then we also | 00:51:33 | |
put it in the. | 00:51:36 | |
The areas. | 00:51:40 | |
Marketing as well once we get closer. So that's now. So yeah, we'll bring one. | 00:51:43 | |
Anything else That's all happening within a few weeks. Just everything. | 00:51:49 | |
Yeah. | 00:51:54 | |
Alright ohh. | 00:51:55 | |
Yes, Can I ask what's happening with the? | 00:51:57 | |
So that St. building which so 520, yes, the one that's. | 00:52:00 | |
Was having issues with getting their electricity. That was their transformer was the delay and that was months and months of delay | 00:52:07 | |
is now fixed. So they do have their transformer and their units are now hooked up, which is nice. | 00:52:14 | |
And they still have a few of the. | 00:52:22 | |
Top apartments or condos to sell the bottom floor. They've got most of it filled. Muse Gallery is coming over and opening another | 00:52:26 | |
location. Simon Bowles painting, if you know him, is filling one of the spaces. Builder supplies in one and then one is a Realtors | 00:52:33 | |
office. But there is also a belief that. | 00:52:40 | |
Huge spot in the front that hasn't been filled yet, so slowly but surely taking way longer than what it was proposed. But that is | 00:52:47 | |
kind of normal these days. Sidewalks are open, doors are open, lights are on kind of thing, but no grand opening yet. They were | 00:52:55 | |
hoping to do a grand opening sometime at the end of this year where they invite the public and hey, we're open now, so. | 00:53:02 | |
Movie theaters, old and strong. The suggestion that was made, the proposal that was going to be made for that area was pulled off | 00:53:12 | |
the council agenda. | 00:53:17 | |
Table to no date certain so I don't know what's happening with it because it's. | 00:53:23 | |
Just in no man's land right now. | 00:53:29 | |
And it's not on the agenda for this Wednesday either. | 00:53:32 | |
America, Bank of America. They have started renovations on the inside, on the interior. Some of these taking it. No, not. Well, | 00:53:35 | |
somebody bought the building. Yeah, so they still have at least. | 00:53:41 | |
I think they've at least one of the two properties, so they're starting to do stuff, but it's all internal, you can't see much. | 00:53:47 | |
And then they started the demo on. | 00:53:54 | |
Which one? Ohh PG hotel so that is. | 00:53:57 | |
That is supposed to actually start the end of August. There's, there's sign. I know the guy that owns Ohh. Yeah. Yeah. There's | 00:54:02 | |
signs up that say like demo is imminent. So within this month. Yeah, yeah, they're already in there like. | 00:54:09 | |
Chase fell out of escrow. | 00:54:18 | |
Yeah, so there was someone who bought Chase and then they the escrow fell out. So they're now looking for. | 00:54:20 | |
Someone else? Yeah, Another buyer. And that's just the buyer of the building, not tenants. | 00:54:29 | |
Which isn't bad at this. It's going to need them. I know you did. | 00:54:34 | |
Building downtown. | 00:54:39 | |
It's pretty big. I was trying to think of a square footage. Do you remember it was like 9000 something? | 00:54:44 | |
So, yeah, and there are the proposal for the the one prior who was was in escrow was housing on top, you know retail and kind of | 00:54:51 | |
similar to what it's been there for. | 00:54:57 | |
The Chase Bank. One thing, yeah. The the one who fell out of escrow that they were going to do with it. | 00:55:05 | |
Still waiting for Coastal Commission hearing currently. | 00:55:13 | |
Not a whole lot of news coming out of that, unfortunately, right now. | 00:55:18 | |
Is there a long holdings, very long haul? Well, I know that that one in particular is it is that one piece that they have to have | 00:55:24 | |
the hearing to move forward. There was some interest of having a meeting from I think a couple of the. | 00:55:32 | |
The commissioners that that meeting didn't happen. I think it was scheduled for last week that didn't happen. So it's just sort of | 00:55:41 | |
you know, waiting game and a lot of. | 00:55:46 | |
Pushing things down the road, which is unfortunate because we all lose when things keep getting. | 00:55:51 | |
Getting pushed and pushed. So is there anything that? | 00:55:56 | |
With the Council. | 00:56:00 | |
That we should be aware of anything that. | 00:56:02 | |
It's coming up that needs support. | 00:56:05 | |
As far as business related there? | 00:56:08 | |
Well, OK. On the Parklands right now, yeah, that's The thing is there were quite a few business items on the agenda that they all | 00:56:14 | |
got pulled off because they had other things and they had to go back to. | 00:56:20 | |
Possession. So. | 00:56:26 | |
The majority of those things were pulled off and they were business related, but none of them have been rescheduled to a desert, | 00:56:28 | |
so. | 00:56:33 | |
We're OK for now. We put it to years and strong. | 00:56:40 | |
In. | 00:56:46 | |
Right, so. | 00:56:48 | |
Done. | 00:56:50 | |
June the 30th, so this is. | 00:56:51 | |
Amongst all, very quickly. | 00:56:55 | |
We're almost already around to start Spring. | 00:56:57 | |
And then we'll go into Maine. And if they want to take it down, we have to take it down. And well, I think, yeah, I actually wrote | 00:57:02 | |
to ask some information on this because it would be sheer lunacy to start demolition and construction in our high schools, right. | 00:57:09 | |
So once the permit. | 00:57:17 | |
Finishes on 30th of June. It's. | 00:57:24 | |
You know, it would be very considerate if the Council would. | 00:57:28 | |
Postpone any kind of work until after the high school in September and October are beautiful months. They're also very busy, so | 00:57:33 | |
it's like, you know, just the wrong time of year. So November could be a start date for any work. That would be awesome, I know. | 00:57:40 | |
I feel that. | 00:57:50 | |
Our outgoing city manager was very pro economic vitality and. | 00:57:52 | |
You know, I think maybe our support for getting a new city manager who also feels that businesses are. | 00:57:57 | |
I don't know. Once we get our group together, you know? | 00:58:07 | |
Typically typically on new hires, they have a community panel along with a professional panel so. | 00:58:12 | |
And you know, hopefully. | 00:58:18 | |
You know there is business. | 00:58:20 | |
In that room as well, you know, as part of part of the pieces of the community, so. | 00:58:23 | |
That's going to be voted on tomorrow. No, no interim. Just acting. No interim. Ohh shoot. | 00:58:30 | |
Hold on. It is, yeah. The finance director, Cortana, is on it. Hold on. | 00:58:37 | |
Exactly. | 00:58:42 | |
2 seconds, 2 seconds. | 00:58:44 | |
First item. | 00:58:46 | |
City manager Pro Tem. | 00:58:50 | |
With hiring authority effective immediately and that would be Tora Hannah, that's the one that's along, yeah. She's the finance | 00:58:52 | |
director currently. And then also this is the recommended action motion to direct the city attorney to prepare the ordinance to | 00:58:59 | |
amend the salary schedule motion to create City manager recruitment subcommittee. | 00:59:05 | |
And then or alternately discuss and take other actions. So those are all the different. | 00:59:13 | |
Pieces that are on the agenda and it is the first thing on the City Council agenda on Wednesday at 6:00 PM. | 00:59:18 | |
And you can attend either in person at City Hall or online. And if you don't have that log in, every single Monday, the chamber | 00:59:24 | |
sends out an e-mail, our e-news called the Spotlight. And I always put the links in for you to just click on. So just look for the | 00:59:32 | |
Spotlight and it'll be right there. And then we also post the videos of the prior meeting as well in that e-mail so that you can | 00:59:39 | |
look back as well at at what what happens. Well, so we're just trying to. | 00:59:46 | |
You know, communicate everything as as best we can. | 00:59:54 | |
All right. | 00:59:59 | |
We are at 9:31, so we do need to adjourn exactly. | 01:00:01 | |
They're coming and we'll see you next month. | 01:00:07 | |
Yeah. Thank you, guys. | 01:00:12 | |
I'm excited about the logo. | 01:00:14 |