HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Economic Development Committee - 08/09/2022August 9, 2022 - SOUTH BURLINGTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE APPROVED MINUTES
Members present: Linda Norris, Sriram Srinivasan, Michael Biama, Charles Johnson, John
Burton and Ken Linge.
Members absent: Tom Bailey
Others in attendance: Jessie Baker, City Manager, Ilona Blanchard, City Development Director,
Isabelle Menard City Intern, Dan Albrecht from DRB and CCRPC for a portion of the meeting.
John Burton welcomed all and called the meeting to order at 5:30 PM.
1. Welcome and introduction of new members: The new members on the Committee, Michael
Biama, Charles Johnson and Ken Linge, introduced themselves and provided short personal
backgrounds. Then the other members introduced themselves to the new members.
2. Agenda items 1-3 reviewed and approval: The agenda was reviewed and approved. There were
no public comments and hence proceeded to approval of July 12, 2022 meeting minutes. So
moved by Linda Norris and seconded by Srini.S
3. Manager's Update by Jessie B: At latest CC session, all committees work plan and priorities
were discussed. The Council will take up approval on 8/15.
A reminder that Annual Training and Orientation for volunteers serving on City Boards and
Committees is available and she sent a link to all on Aug.5. CC considering a resolution for new
construction per the CATF work that includes minimizing fossil fuel impact for new construction
(Burlington has already approved this type of resolution).
Also, 6 RFPs have been received by the city for the $1M available for affordable housing. CC will
review at Sept 6 meeting.
Big news for City Center forthcoming! Watch for announcement.
4. Summer Intern Data presentation: Isabelle Menard--City summer intern presentation on SB
data collection. She used UVM Tableau tool and some manual data collection from past
budgets and assisted Ilona Blanchard's staff with revenue, tax, employment, etc. data from
2012-2021/22 in most cases. Data is now a baseline to use for future analysis with the city's
license for MS BI. Ilona looking for volunteer(s) to assist with further presentation and
organization of the data.
5. Review of Climate Action Plan and committee work by Srini: Much discussion ensued and Dan
Albrecht had input on focus on transportation priority. There are numerous pathways to
promoting planning for greatest SB impact for climate change. Much discussion ensued on this
topic, equity being one subject of concern. Srini asked for input and has sent link to all
committee members. Mike questioned "economic" impact and the EDC's role in making
recommendations in that regard. More discussion or subcommittee TBD.
6. ARPA Survey review: Meeting had gone over an hour and time was running out so it was
decided to have all EDC members individually EMAIL John Burton with to rank their TOP 3 from
question #7 of city ARPA survey.
7. Next mtg is Sept 13: Discussion on community engagement and plan will be discussed.
8. Meeting adjourned at 8:05pm.