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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - Economic Development Committee - 07/11/2023South Burlington Economic Development Committee Room #301 at 180 Market St South Burlington, VT 05403 AGENDA Participation Options In Person: Room #301 – 3rd Floor – 180 Market St Assistive Listening Service Devices Available upon request Electronically: https://meet.goto.com/SouthBurlingtonVT/economic-development-committee07-11-2023 You can also dial in using your phone. (408) 650-3123 Access Code: 205-365-485 Tuesday July 11, 2023 5:30 PM 1.Welcome, agenda review and approval 2.Elect a Chair, Vice Chair, and Clerk (current Chair will preside until this point) 3.Public comments on items not on the agenda 4.***Approve June 12, 2023 minutes 5.***Finalize feedback to the Planning Commission on the full draft of the City Plan 2024. This document will be available here on July 7th: https://www.southburlingtonvt.gov/government/comprehensive_plan/index.php 6.Childcare ARPA funding discussion 7.Adjourn (approx. 7:00 pm) ***Attachments included SOUTH BURLINGTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES of the Committee meeting on June 13, 2023 in Room 301 of City Hall, 180 Market Street, South Burlington, in person and remotely. Members present: Tom Bailey, Michael Biama, John Burton, Ken Linge and Charles Johnson attended all in person. Members absent: Sriram “Srini” Srinivasan Others in attendance: Jessie Baker, City Manager, Ilona Blanchard, City Development Director and Tim Barrett, City Council member and liaison attended in person. John Burton called the meeting to order at 5:30 PM and proceeded to address the items on the agenda. 1.Welcome, agenda review and approval: The agenda was approved. 2. Public Comments on items not on the agenda: There were no public comments. 3. Approval of minutes of May 16, 2023 meeting: Michael moved to approve the minutes of the May 16, 2023 meeting. Charles seconded the motion which was approved unanimously. 4. Discussion and report out of the FY 23 and Approve FY24 Policy Priorities and Strategies: Using the “FY22 Policy Priorities & Strategies – Report # 3” as a starting point, the Committee discussed each of the line items recalling prior discussions and developing a draft work plan for the next year. Wide ranging discussions were held in which all members of the Committee participated. Some topics discussed included: •The City’s possible role in supporting childcare resources. The members acknowledged that the final results of Vermont legislature’s childcare bill, concluding shortly, would be a good foundation for the Committee’s continuing conversation in the next meeting in July. •How and what data should be collected that would be useful to the City and the local business community in attracting clean energy businesses. •Polling businesses, including as guests at Committee meetings, for local business needs and best City policies. •Suggesting best ways to implement the climate action plans and design local transportation. •Determining regional future energy needs and how they would be met as when there is more demand for electricity and clean energy. •Engage with future University Mall planning. •Note: Jessie informed the Committee that, as a result of staff reorganization, she would no longer staff the Committee. Rather, Ilona will serve as the Committee’s staff person going forward. 5. Childcare ARPA funding discussion. Since childcare had already been discussed, no further discussion nor action was taken. 6. Adjournment: No other agenda items were considered. The meeting adjourned at 6:54 PM. 1 Jessie Baker From:Kelsey Peterson Sent:Tuesday, June 27, 2023 2:56 PM To:Jessie Baker; Ilona Blanchard; Dave Wheeler; Erica Quallen; Holly Rees Subject:City Plan 2024: Full Draft Feedback from Committees Follow Up Flag:Follow up Flag Status:Flagged Dear CommiƩee Liaisons, We’re moving into a new phase of feedback and outreach for City Plan 2024. The CommiƩees have another opportunity now to submit addiƟonal feedback. I have incorporated commiƩee feedback from previous rounds in the draŌ, but some has been modiﬁed to reﬂect Planning Commission edits and to be at the Plan level (as opposed to operaƟons or implementaƟon details). A full draŌ has been circulated to the Planning Commission in their packet for this week. They have a meeƟng tonight (Tuesday) and another as‐needed (but will very likely be needed) to ﬁnish tonight’s agenda on Thursday. The intenƟon is that the Commission will be happy enough with the working draŌ aŌer Thursday’s meeƟng (and any changes from this week’s meeƟngs) to have it become a staƟc draŌ that will not change through July unƟl mid‐August for public review. It will be published to the public by Friday, July 7. We have proposed to the Commission that they hold their full meeƟng on July 25 at 7pm as a public comment listening session where any member of the public is welcome to provide any feedback they have. We are working on hopefully scheduling 2‐4 addiƟonal public listening sessions at other Ɵmes (like weekday business hours, weekend, etc.) to be available to more members of the public. That is somewhat up to the Commissioners and would have to between approximately July 21 and 30. The public is also welcome to submit wriƩen comments to planning@southburlingtonvt.gov or to me at kpeterson@southburlingtonvt.gov. All of this will be adverƟsed in the Other Paper, City News, our website, and on paper posters. The goal is to have public comments discussed and incorporated by the Planning Commission and moved to public hearing at the August 22 meeƟng. The Public Hearing would then be held around October 1. If your commiƩee wants to discuss the draŌ and provide feedback, the deadline is Thursday, August 3. For most commiƩees, it would have to be on the July meeƟng agenda (for NRCC, the meeƟng in August (I’m assuming it’s 8/2?) would also be ﬁne). I will send you the updated draŌ as soon as I can next week for you to circulate to your commiƩees for their July meeƟngs. Thanks, Kelsey 2 Kelsey Peterson (she/her) City Planner City of South Burlington 180 Market Street South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 846‐4106 www.sbvt.gov Notice ‐ Under Vermont’s Public Records Act, all e‐mail, e‐mail attachments as well as paper copies of documents received or prepared for use in matters concerning City business, concerning a City official or staff, or containing information relating to City business are likely to be regarded as public records which may be inspected by any person upon request, unless otherwise made confidential by law. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return email. Thank you for your cooperation.