Economic Development Authority Meeting   6/18/2024

Kornkopf pipe, and the Nutting News.

All right.

I guess we have a quorum, don't we?

All right.

Is that good, Richie?

So now he's admitted.

Anyone signed up?

If there are, I'll come back to it.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

I motion to approve the minutes.

Is there a second?

Second.

So, Richie, you want to talk about the remote participation box.

And I certainly will entertain any questions.

Any questions?

I don't know.

All right.

Chairman, if I could add for the record, there were no shoulder comments.

Is that right?

Did I get the title right?

Close enough.

Close enough.

She's participating in a program, the name, I don't know.

Roadmap Scholars.

Roadmap Scholar, which is a two-year summer program that prepares her for law school.

And is your job to dissuade her?

You're welcome.

All right, so Emily, you want to start us off?

I think heading into that joint meeting, we're not expecting to have a red line document for you all to be looking at, but really to sort of build consensus between the two bodies on what are the topics to work through to build a red line version that you all sort of after August 14th would work through at your meetings to get to a final resolved and adopted document.

Anyone else have anything they want to bring up?

So I can toggle back and forth between these.

Those are all things that we have the ability to do and maybe use it in a way that avoids suffering.

really helped lift all boats.

I've heard that concept referred to as cluster development, where you have the supporting organizations and businesses that are all intertwined, maybe not exactly the same thing.

Someone kind of sort of lead the discussion?

and then probably take it kind of bullet by bullet and see, let the board have a reaction and sort of talk through anything that they, any concerns or support that they have and then sort of let that dialogue flow from there.

So that I think we have a better discussion reacting off a specific set of points than a certain, hey, let's just talk about this.

And then again, we could sort of use the time in the meeting to allow you all to kind of represent your thoughts on any of these and then, you know, let the board then have their dialogue as well.

So we know.

And so where should we be focusing our efforts is really helpful guidance for us as well.

Do we have any feedback from the Board of Supervisors yet from their team about what they'd like us thinking about, or is that still a conflict?

That's great feedback for us so that we can, again, make sure that the board's aware of that and they can sort of come in with their thoughts sort of aligned.

All right, staff report.

Anything you guys want to add?

But it's always fun to show up and support those small businesses and see what's going on in the community.

Burn yourself.

The lawyer in me said, yeah, that seems like a really good idea that people have been drinking wine.

With a lot of coaching and supervision, it was not unsupervised glass blower.

J.T.

and Emily and many of the board attended the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council, GALA, depending on where you're from.

Tom, would you like to talk about the event?

It was a

So I don't know if there's anything to highlight from you.

And yeah, it may come forward in the future.

So I'm gonna let him.

There's a lot more packed into the study and I look forward to sharing it with everybody when it comes out.

That's our report.

Mr. Vice Chair, do you want to read the motion?

Any discussion in that closed session?

And we'll do a roll call.

Director McNaughton.

Aye.

Director Johnson?

Aye.

Yeah, that's good.

I had a total calendar, snafus.

I mean, it was sort of lucky that we could do it on such short notice and everyone would be able to make it happen.

I think if we'd been planning for months, it might not have worked.

Congratulations.