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All right. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our virtual community meeting for the City of Port Munin's Economic Development | 00:01:48 | |
Plan. I'm Laura Hernandez from Ariana Associates, part of the outreach team, and I will be one of today's facilitators. | 00:01:55 | |
But before we get started, I do want to go over a few interpretation instructions. Today's meeting will be interpreted | 00:02:03 | |
simultaneously into Spanish for English speakers. If you wish to hear the meeting in English, you will need to click the | 00:02:09 | |
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All right. I will now pass it over to Tony Stewart to provide us some opening remarks. | 00:03:38 | |
Thank you, Tony, and thank you, Laura. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for participating in the City of Port Wyoming Mesa | 00:03:45 | |
First Economic Development Workshop. I'm Tony Stewart, the Community and Economic Development Department Director for the the City | 00:03:51 | |
of Port Hueneme. | 00:03:56 | |
And as you all know, port winding is a very unique place. We're small, but we have a vibrant community. We're home to the Navy | 00:04:02 | |
base of Ventura County as well as the Port of Winemie. We have a fantastic beach and many other assets. | 00:04:07 | |
But as you also know, there are factors that create economic challenges for the city, and they have for years. | 00:04:14 | |
Primarily due to our being built out, we're landlocked by Oxnard. | 00:04:20 | |
We're several miles from the one O 1 freeway, etcetera. | 00:04:24 | |
And so, therefore, last year, the City Council authorized the creation of a new economic development plan. | 00:04:28 | |
That could be used to obtain the community's input and explore economic development ideas, as well as to generate a plan to move | 00:04:33 | |
economic growth forward in the city of Port Hueneme. | 00:04:39 | |
Tonight is one of those key components of this project, and this is where it's going to be valuable for gathering your input. | 00:04:45 | |
The city has hired the PFM Group to lead this project, along with Ariano Associates. | 00:04:52 | |
And they will be discussing a variety of topics and ideas with you this evening, taking you through a poll. So we'll be very | 00:04:57 | |
engaging process and we hope that you look forward and and. | 00:05:02 | |
Get some real valuable experience from this workshop. | 00:05:08 | |
So at this point, I'd like to introduce Alan Romage and Bill Fulton from PFM and turn it over to Bill, who will take you through | 00:05:12 | |
our meeting here. Thank you again for attending. | 00:05:17 | |
Thank you, Tony, and good evening, everybody. I'm Bill Fulton. I'm a Senior advisor to PFM Consulting Group. | 00:05:23 | |
As Tony said, we are specialists in economic issues associated with local governments, like cities. | 00:05:31 | |
And so we are have been hired by the city to prepare the city's first I believe, am I right, Tony economic development plan. | 00:05:39 | |
So it's been pretty exciting for us so far. Let me let me talk a little bit about how we're going to go through this agenda | 00:05:48 | |
tonight. | 00:05:52 | |
We're doing the introductions now and the overview. | 00:05:58 | |
I'm going to discuss what the Economic Development Plan is and what it's supposed to do. | 00:06:04 | |
We're going to talk about goals and actually what we're going to do is I. | 00:06:09 | |
Have a little live polling? We're going to ask you some questions about Port Hueneme and your thoughts and your viewpoint about | 00:06:14 | |
what might be, what should happen and what might be in the plan. | 00:06:20 | |
We'll have a we'll have an open discussion in Q&A segment. | 00:06:28 | |
And I think it's fair to say that at any point during the evening, if you have a question, please put the question in the the Q&A | 00:06:33 | |
box down at the bottom and and we will address that when we get to the Q&A part. First, I'm going to make a little bit of | 00:06:40 | |
introduction about what this economic development plan is. | 00:06:47 | |
And then Laura's going to help me work, walk through these polls, these quest, these poll questions where you all will answer | 00:06:54 | |
answer the questions we have and then we'll have an open discussion Q&A and and and and depending on how many people we have, it | 00:07:03 | |
could be pretty, pretty robust and and fun. Sometimes it's more fun with a smaller group. So if we can go on to the next slide. | 00:07:11 | |
Here. | 00:07:21 | |
Tony mentioned this, and I assume that most of you here tonight know everything I'm about to say. | 00:07:24 | |
Port Oneemia is a beautiful little city. It's as you know, it's right on the coast, you know has a beautiful beachfront as you can | 00:07:29 | |
see here and as I'm sure you know from your daily life, also some wonderful parks. It is a small city, very small. It one of the | 00:07:37 | |
smallest cities in Ventura County both geographically and in population. And of course as Tony said, most of the land in the city | 00:07:45 | |
is taken up by Naval Base, Ventura County and the port of Wanimi. | 00:07:52 | |
So, so we're we're here to understand. | 00:08:01 | |
What some of the issues are? | 00:08:06 | |
In Port Hueneme, how that relates to business and economic growth and actually the revenue for the city and how we can help the | 00:08:08 | |
city, the City Council and Tony and the City Manager shape a plan going forward that will improve the economic health of the | 00:08:17 | |
community while at the same time retaining the high quality of life that you already have. If we can go to the next slide, I. | 00:08:26 | |
As I said. | 00:08:36 | |
The intent is to the of the Economic Development plan, which, for short, we can call the EDP, but I will try to call it the | 00:08:38 | |
Economic Development plan to avoid confusion. | 00:08:43 | |
It aims to ensure community prosperity. As you know, Port Meneme has come out of some difficult Financial Times. | 00:08:48 | |
Thanks in large part to Measure you the, the sales tax and the and the cannabis businesses, but nevertheless, how? A question is | 00:08:57 | |
how can Port Hueneme retain long term community prosperity? Not just the fiscal prosperity for the city government, but the | 00:09:03 | |
prosperity for everyone who lives in the community. | 00:09:10 | |
And this plan is part of the reason we're having this effort is this plan will be a commute collaborative effort involving City | 00:09:17 | |
Council staff, residents. | 00:09:21 | |
Businesses in the public and it will reflect the city's unique culture and character. One of the things that that I like to do and | 00:09:27 | |
I know we like to do when we assist the city, is truly immerse ourselves in the city and understand it and understand what the | 00:09:33 | |
culture and what the character is of that city if we move on to the next slide. | 00:09:40 | |
Just a little bit about what is an economic development plan? | 00:09:47 | |
An economic development plan is for the city government is, as you can see here, we call it, a strategic road map designed to | 00:09:53 | |
stimulate and sustain economic growth and prosperity within the community. And it really is intended to be a road map. | 00:10:01 | |
What the plan will do and and it it's playing to a certain extent off of the of off of the recent general plan. | 00:10:10 | |
The the The Economic Development Plan will outline goals the economic goals of the city, Not just the fiscal goals of the city | 00:10:17 | |
government, but the economic goals of the community as a whole. It will identify strategies that the city can undertake with | 00:10:24 | |
partners like the Navy and the port and the school district in order to and then what specific action steps should be taken over | 00:10:30 | |
the next few years to try to. | 00:10:36 | |
Pursue those strategies and achieve those goals. And the goals will be aimed at retaining existing businesses, attracting new | 00:10:43 | |
businesses, creating jobs, enhancing infrastructure and improving the overall quality of life. | 00:10:50 | |
For the residents. So with that, I think if I'm not mistaken, Laura, we move on. Do we move on to the, oh, I'm sorry, one more | 00:10:58 | |
thing the the the goals we've identified that are most likely. | 00:11:05 | |
To be to be highlighted in the economic development plan at this point will be. | 00:11:13 | |
Revenue enhancement. | 00:11:20 | |
A revenue I mentioned Measure U and the cannabis businesses, but the city will have to continue to to figure out how to make sure | 00:11:21 | |
the city government has enough revenue to maintain operations to provide a high quality of life to the community. | 00:11:29 | |
We'll look at opportunities for infill development. Port Wenemia is built out basically has. | 00:11:37 | |
No vacant land or almost no vacant land. | 00:11:44 | |
And so. | 00:11:48 | |
We will be working with the city and the community to identify where potential development could occur in reusing existing | 00:11:50 | |
properties. That's called infill development. | 00:11:56 | |
We'll talk about the the proposed downtown and the downtown branding. | 00:12:02 | |
There, there is a there. There is a designated area where a downtown might go or might be recreated after having been torn out | 00:12:10 | |
many years ago. | 00:12:15 | |
We'll talk about how it is it might be possible to expand tourism. | 00:12:21 | |
To provide both economic opportunity for the people who live in Port Hueneme and additional revenue for the city without without | 00:12:27 | |
deteriorating and hopefully enhancing the quality of life for the people who live here. And also probably another goal will be to | 00:12:34 | |
create high wage and high tech jobs. There is a lot of high tech activity at the Navy at the naval base with not only by the Navy | 00:12:41 | |
itself but by defense contractors and there's a variety of opportunities where some of those jobs and and some of those high tech | 00:12:48 | |
businesses might be able to. | 00:12:55 | |
Be retained in in port with Nimi or or grown in Port Wanimi. So these are likely the goals that we're going to see in the plan | 00:13:03 | |
these these are subject to discussion and tweaking and so forth but but what? But when we were hired these are pretty much the | 00:13:09 | |
goals the city had in mind. | 00:13:16 | |
And all that is just to say is just to provide some background. | 00:13:23 | |
And now, I think now, am I correct, Laura, now we move on to the polling question. So this is one of the most fun parts of having | 00:13:29 | |
this. So, so again what we're going to try to do is. | 00:13:36 | |
We have a number of questions we'd like to ask you. | 00:13:43 | |
You can. You'll be able to answer those questions in real time on your computer. We'll see the results in real time. We will, of | 00:13:47 | |
course, also record. | 00:13:51 | |
And and. | 00:13:57 | |
And and then after that and partly as a result of what we hear, we will have AQ and A and a broader discretion. So here's polling | 00:14:00 | |
question number one. It's on your screen now in both English and Spanish. And this is a question. This is not a multiple choice | 00:14:07 | |
question or anything, right, Laura, this is a, we can ask the question, what for you, what makes the city of Port Wenimi special? | 00:14:14 | |
We're trying to understand? | 00:14:21 | |
What is unique and special to you about Port Winima that might be able to form the basis for future prosperity? So please, we've | 00:14:28 | |
opened this poll up right Laura? | 00:14:33 | |
And please answer the question. | 00:14:40 | |
And then I think we will let you know when we close this question. | 00:14:42 | |
And I and we might be able to. Am I right? Laura will be able to see the answers in real time on the screen. Is that right? | 00:14:49 | |
We should be able to share the results, yes. Yes. So, so right now if all of you wouldn't mind, if you, if you so desire, to | 00:14:55 | |
answer the question on the screen, in the box, on the screen where it says enter an answer that is less than 200 characters, what | 00:15:02 | |
makes the city of Port Menini special. So we'll just give you a minute to do that. | 00:15:09 | |
I will wait just a second. | 00:15:16 | |
And we'll see what people have to say, right, Laura? | 00:15:18 | |
That's correct. Thank you Bill. And then just you know if anyone's having issues accessing the poll, you can also drop your your | 00:15:21 | |
answers in the Q&A feature and then we'll make sure that we document that right and we are not just gonna show these in real time, | 00:15:27 | |
here we will. | 00:15:33 | |
Record them. | 00:15:40 | |
We will, we will have a record of them and we will take that into account in in. | 00:15:41 | |
In preparing the draft plan that will that we will be submitting to the City Council, I should say, and and that the. | 00:15:47 | |
That we expect that the final plan will be approved by the City Council this summer. We're working on it. This, we worked on it | 00:15:57 | |
through the winter. We're going to work on it through the spring. | 00:16:02 | |
And I believe. | 00:16:09 | |
Meant to go to the City Council for approval in July. | 00:16:11 | |
So again, feel free to answer the poll question. | 00:16:16 | |
And I think Laura is probably best best situated to tell us. | 00:16:20 | |
We're going to close the polling for this particular question, right? | 00:16:25 | |
I'm seeing some questions, some responses coming in, so we'll just give it a few. | 00:16:31 | |
We'll just get, we'll just give it a, we'll give it a few more minutes and again I think there's nine questions here. We'll go | 00:16:38 | |
through the nine questions and then we're happy to have a round table discussion, have AQ and A again if you have A, if you have a | 00:16:43 | |
question yourself. | 00:16:48 | |
Which does not come up. | 00:16:53 | |
As a result of any of these polling questions we're asking you, please just drop that in the Q&A or a comment that if it does not | 00:16:55 | |
pertain to any of the to to any of the questions we come up with. | 00:17:02 | |
So we're just give it I think another minute or two Laura, correct. | 00:17:09 | |
Yeah, we can give it a few seconds, I see. | 00:17:14 | |
You have four out of seven right now, so let's see if we get a little bit more participation. Please feel free. | 00:17:17 | |
I I assume all of you report Wanimi residents. You probably all have. Everyone always has a strong opinion about their hometown. I | 00:17:25 | |
I assume you have probably have a strong opinion about what makes Port Wenimi special and what you hope to protect and enhance and | 00:17:31 | |
add to. | 00:17:37 | |
As part of this, as part, as in in ensuring future prosperity. So again, I'll. | 00:17:45 | |
I'll leave it up to Laura to tell us when that when, when it's a good time to close this polling question. | 00:17:51 | |
But thanks again to all of you. Oh, here we go. | 00:17:56 | |
Alright, so let's share results. | 00:17:59 | |
All right. | 00:18:05 | |
OK, so. | 00:18:07 | |
I see that the. | 00:18:15 | |
Questions have been answered. I'm not sure we see the. | 00:18:17 | |
Answers on the screen, Do we? | 00:18:19 | |
Yeah, if you click on View Details, it'll take you to the answers, but I'm more than happy to verbally provide the answers that we | 00:18:22 | |
received. So one of our first answers is the commercial port and naval base. | 00:18:29 | |
We also have diverse cultures, local feel, economic potential and diversity of housing stock. | 00:18:37 | |
Diversity of housing stock, economic potential. That's great. | 00:18:45 | |
We also have the small town field with a variety of community events in the wonderful beach. | 00:18:50 | |
It is a wonderful beach indeed. That's a great point. | 00:18:56 | |
And lastly, we have the size is Queen. It's easy to feel at home. It's mostly beach and being around water. | 00:19:00 | |
Blue Spaces is very positive. It's a very healthy neighborhood because of its location. It's a family town. | 00:19:07 | |
A family town? That's always very important. | 00:19:14 | |
Well, those are good. So we've captured those. That's a wide, I think Laura, that's quite a wide variety of responses. | 00:19:19 | |
To that first question from a relatively small number of people. And again, we're we're, we're capturing all of these responses, | 00:19:26 | |
right, Laura? And we will have them all and and we will, they're not just going to disappear into the ephemera when the meeting is | 00:19:32 | |
over, but. So why don't we move on to the second question, Laura, can we do that? | 00:19:39 | |
Absolutely. | 00:19:46 | |
So the second question is. | 00:19:49 | |
What is the City of Port Hueneme missing? I mean, there are many wonderful things about Port Wenimi. | 00:19:51 | |
But there are many, but it's a small city. | 00:19:56 | |
And there may be things that you think are important to the future report when Emil are important to your own quality of life or | 00:19:59 | |
to the prosperity of the community and you and your family that are missing. | 00:20:04 | |
So we'd love to hear your thoughts about what is Port Hueneme missing? | 00:20:10 | |
So I'm, I'm. We'll just give you a minute or two. | 00:20:17 | |
To answer that question and again I'll I'll leave it. | 00:20:20 | |
Laura to. | 00:20:24 | |
Tell me when, when is a good time to to close the? | 00:20:27 | |
The to close the poll. I think having these real time polling opportunities is a real game changer for public engagement. | 00:20:32 | |
Certainly over the years I've done many, many public workshops and to have this kind of immediate feedback, feedback even online | 00:20:39 | |
is really quite wonderful. So I want to thank Ariana Associates for for bringing us this technology today. Thank you, Lauren. | 00:20:45 | |
Thank you, Adam. | 00:20:52 | |
Adam, Adam Douglas, also with Ariana. | 00:20:59 | |
So again, I'll leave it to Laura to tell us. | 00:21:04 | |
When we have some answers here. | 00:21:09 | |
Thank you, Bill. We don't have any answers yet, so let's give everyone a few minutes. | 00:21:13 | |
Sometimes it's harder to say what's missing than what's there. | 00:21:19 | |
Sometimes it's harder to say. | 00:21:24 | |
What? What isn't there? What is there like the beach? | 00:21:26 | |
Or the naval base are obvious things that you can think of immediately. | 00:21:31 | |
Port Menemi is a small city. | 00:21:36 | |
Many people travel to Oxnard or other surrounding cities for certain activities. | 00:21:38 | |
And so you might think about what kinds of things do you wish you had and oxen if that far, not that far away. But you might ask | 00:21:45 | |
other people, you might think about what what do you travel across the city line to Oxnard or other cities for? And would you like | 00:21:52 | |
to see those things in in Port Menemei or are there other things missing that would enhance your life or but or again enhance the | 00:22:00 | |
economic potential and the economic benefit to the not just to the city government again. | 00:22:08 | |
But to the people of port we need. | 00:22:17 | |
Thank you, Bill. And just a reminder, if you know there's something that you think of after the fact, you know, feel free to plug | 00:22:20 | |
that in. The Q&A feature even if you already passed the poll, we understand. Yeah, we understand that sometimes when we share the | 00:22:25 | |
answers you. | 00:22:29 | |
Probably that something else comes to mind, so feel free to put it in and we'll make sure to document it. | 00:22:34 | |
Yeah, OK. | 00:22:40 | |
So we'll we'll see what we come up with here. | 00:22:42 | |
On this end. | 00:22:45 | |
All right. We have a few that have come in. So let me just give it a few seconds and then we'll we'll share what what we. | 00:22:47 | |
Well, this is fun to see what people are saying in real time. | 00:22:56 | |
And as I say we can have, we can answer Q&A and and have a discussion about this after the. | 00:23:04 | |
You'll have the opportunity to ask questions in real time once we've done with the 9 polling questions, right, Laura? | 00:23:11 | |
Yes, we'll have AQ and A segment. | 00:23:18 | |
All right, so I'm going to end this pull right now. | 00:23:28 | |
And pull up the results. | 00:23:32 | |
All right. So As for this question, we have. | 00:23:37 | |
What is missing, right. So one answer was grocery stores near beach neighborhoods, Grocery stores near beach neighborhoods, I | 00:23:43 | |
think. I think we may have only one grocery store. | 00:23:48 | |
Actually, uh-huh. | 00:23:53 | |
Also a playground equipment at the beach. | 00:23:55 | |
Oh, right. Good. | 00:23:59 | |
Small business assistance beyond. | 00:24:02 | |
The cannabis businesses. | 00:24:05 | |
Assistance for other small businesses besides the cannabis businesses, OK. | 00:24:07 | |
Art spaces. | 00:24:13 | |
Art. | 00:24:15 | |
Yeah, many cities in Ventura County have been very aggressive about about creating. | 00:24:17 | |
Places and spaces for art, that's true. | 00:24:23 | |
OK. We also have evening entertainment. | 00:24:29 | |
Fine Dining locations, Cafe types. | 00:24:35 | |
Cafe type places together. | 00:24:39 | |
It's funny, I'll be, you know, so often times it's it's not just a venue but a gathering place. | 00:24:42 | |
Around food that people respond to. | 00:24:49 | |
All right. We also have more community activities that are not necessarily for kids, things to draw guests and local together to | 00:24:53 | |
participate together. | 00:24:57 | |
It's not, in my opinion, much to draw people to hear. | 00:25:03 | |
OK. All right. | 00:25:06 | |
So that pretty much all of the answers we got on on this one. | 00:25:09 | |
Yes. And I do see a comment from Julie in the Q&A. She says that she has a lot of ideas to draw people together and she's making a | 00:25:14 | |
list. So Julie, feel free to drop that in the Q&A segment in the Q&A feature and we'll make sure to make a note of that. And | 00:25:20 | |
again, if you'd like to verbally discuss those once we hit, we hit the Q&A segment, You're more than welcome to do so. Yeah, | 00:25:26 | |
please do that. Thank you. Thank you, Julie. | 00:25:32 | |
All right. So are we probably ready to move on to the next question? | 00:25:38 | |
Yes. | 00:25:43 | |
Let's launch that. | 00:25:44 | |
This is a question. | 00:25:46 | |
That we were talking about before. | 00:25:48 | |
Shopping opportunities in Port Winneme can be somewhat limited. | 00:25:53 | |
And so in order to think about how to attract. | 00:25:56 | |
Shopping opportunities, retail stores, Businesses that you can patronize closer to your residence. One of the things we really | 00:26:01 | |
need to understand is is is when you leave the city to go to Oxnard or somewhere else? | 00:26:08 | |
Where do you go? And I guess to shop? And I guess the question could be, the answer could be. | 00:26:16 | |
Either what stores do you go to or it could be what location do you go to. For example if you go to the collection over in Oxnard. | 00:26:22 | |
So that this is, you could answer this question however you want. | 00:26:34 | |
Either either a geographical location, a particular store, or or you can answer it any other way you'd like. | 00:26:37 | |
So again, this is, I think, one of the most important questions for the city. | 00:26:46 | |
Because there's a strong desire on the part of everyone that I've talked to in Port Munini so far, including the city officials, | 00:26:52 | |
to try to strengthen the retail sector. | 00:26:56 | |
So that local folks have more shopping opportunities closer to home. | 00:27:02 | |
So we'll see what people have to say about this one. | 00:27:10 | |
And again. | 00:27:18 | |
I'll leave it to Laura to monitor this and let us know when we're getting close to. | 00:27:20 | |
A time when we can. | 00:27:25 | |
Can provide some provide some answers. | 00:27:30 | |
Absolutely. We have some answers coming in, so I'll just allow a few more minutes for people to answer. I know it takes a little | 00:27:35 | |
while to type, so I'm sure we have a lot of good answers coming in. | 00:27:40 | |
All right. Well, thank you everyone for being patient while we work through this, but this is really an important way. | 00:27:47 | |
For all of for us to connect with you and actually also for you to connect with each other, because like Laura said. | 00:27:53 | |
You might see it, see or hear an answer. | 00:27:59 | |
And that might stimulate further thinking on your part. And as as Laura said, if that does, please just drop anything you want | 00:28:02 | |
into the Q&A, right? | 00:28:06 | |
All right. I think we are ready to share. So give me one second and I'll pull those results up. | 00:28:28 | |
All right, so one of the answers is because of the range of alternatives, Camarillo or Oxnard. | 00:28:40 | |
There's lots of shopping opportunities in Canberra, I can understand why people would. | 00:28:49 | |
Go over there. Uh-huh. | 00:28:53 | |
We have someone else likewise that goes to downtown Oxnard for boutique, vintage and antique stores. | 00:28:55 | |
And there ought to be an opportunity in Port Hueneme for that kind of boutique small scale story. You would think that's a very | 00:29:02 | |
good, that's a very good observation. | 00:29:06 | |
And people go to to Old Camarillo and Main Street Ventura for arts, craft stores and gourmet foods. | 00:29:12 | |
We also have someone who goes to Ventura Harbor and Channel Island Harbor. They consider everything is there. There's shopping, | 00:29:24 | |
recreation, restaurants, excursions, rentals. | 00:29:29 | |
OK, this is really good feedback I think Laura, thank you. | 00:29:36 | |
All right. And I don't see anything additional in the Q&A. So I think we're ready to go to the next poll. So we'll go on to poll | 00:29:43 | |
question #4. | 00:29:47 | |
Somebody mentioned that there that there are not that many nighttime entertainment opportunities. I believe somebody mentioned | 00:29:53 | |
that a while ago. So one of the questions we want to ask is what entertainment options? | 00:29:59 | |
Do you wish? | 00:30:04 | |
We're here in the city of Port Wenimi. What entertainment options may be something that you do elsewhere, or maybe something that | 00:30:06 | |
you? | 00:30:10 | |
Maybe something that you wish you could do but it doesn't exist or it's too far away. | 00:30:16 | |
What entertainment options do you wish? We're here in the city of port when. I mean, I think this too is a very important question | 00:30:23 | |
for the economic development plan because one of our goals, I think to improve the economy and to create more business opportunity | 00:30:30 | |
is to find ways for people who live in Port Hueneme to stay here, to stay in Port Wenimi to do. | 00:30:38 | |
The things that they. | 00:30:47 | |
That they want to do and also to attract people from surrounding communities when that is beneficial to the to to the city so. | 00:30:49 | |
What entertainment options do you wish existed in the city of Port we need? | 00:30:58 | |
So we'll wait a minute or two, I think, to see what, like as Laura says, it takes time to type. | 00:31:05 | |
Depending on whether you're a fast typist or a slow typist, or if you're. | 00:31:11 | |
On your computer or on your phone? | 00:31:15 | |
They can be a take a while to type if you're on your phone, so we will. | 00:31:18 | |
Give it another couple of minutes. I think Laura, right? | 00:31:23 | |
Yes, we have some answers coming in, but let's give you a few seconds. Yeah, great. This is going along nicely. | 00:31:27 | |
Thank you for being such a good sort of technological moderator there, Laura. Thank you. | 00:31:34 | |
So we're probably almost ready to hear what people have to say about this topic. | 00:31:57 | |
Yes, we'll be closing out in a few seconds. | 00:32:03 | |
All right, I'm ending the poll right now. | 00:32:12 | |
And sharing results. | 00:32:16 | |
All right, we have independent movie theaters, late night dining, slash cocktail bars and karaoke. | 00:32:22 | |
And another again they. | 00:32:34 | |
Same thing they would like a movie theater to consider. It would be a great opportunity to. | 00:32:37 | |
To have that type of entertainment. | 00:32:43 | |
OK. | 00:32:47 | |
All right. Well, why don't we move on to? | 00:32:51 | |
Poll Question #5. | 00:32:53 | |
Because we want to keep this moving, we want to get to the discussion. | 00:32:58 | |
What businesses do you think would be the most successful in the city of Port Wenimi? Because I think that's a little bit | 00:33:02 | |
different question than what do you wish was here? | 00:33:07 | |
Because on the one hand, when you say, when you ask yourself what do you wish was here? | 00:33:12 | |
Port when he may or may not have the conditions for that, but but most people who live in a community have a very good sense of | 00:33:18 | |
what that community is about. | 00:33:22 | |
And what it and and? | 00:33:26 | |
And and what it, what it is can best accommodate. So given what you know about Port Menemi, what kinds of businesses do you think | 00:33:29 | |
would be the most successful, more successful than any others? So I think that's the question here so. | 00:33:36 | |
We'll see what people have to say. | 00:33:44 | |
Over the next few minutes and I'm sorry. | 00:33:46 | |
To go to go silent for a minute or two, but we really do need to give everybody a chance to type, like Laura said, right. | 00:33:49 | |
Absolutely. | 00:33:58 | |
So we'll give it a minute. | 00:33:59 | |
And I want to again say thanks to to both Laura and Adam from Ariano Associates. | 00:34:09 | |
For bringing us this technology and for actually putting this whole. | 00:34:14 | |
Session together. | 00:34:18 | |
Umm, we will be having an in person workshop. | 00:34:20 | |
Later in the spring, we'll talk about that at the end. | 00:34:26 | |
Now I do see some answers coming in, so let's just give it a one more minute to allow for some additional answers. | 00:34:33 | |
All right. | 00:34:45 | |
All right. And we'll be ending the poll right now. | 00:35:13 | |
And let's see what we've heard. | 00:35:17 | |
All right. So what businesses do you think would be most successful? | 00:35:22 | |
In the area so we have family friendly restaurants. | 00:35:28 | |
Cocktail bars and we have someone who is not sure. So maybe you know as we hear the different options and hear the conversation, | 00:35:31 | |
there might be a few. | 00:35:36 | |
That might come to mind later. So again, those that happens, you know, place it in the Q&A. | 00:35:41 | |
Feature, and we'll make sure to address it. | 00:35:46 | |
And it's the second time cocktail bars have come up, interestingly enough. | 00:35:49 | |
So but it is happy hour so. | 00:35:53 | |
How about we move on to the next question, number six? | 00:36:00 | |
What amenities do you believe would best ensure business growth if you think about? | 00:36:05 | |
Successful business districts and that could be a retail district. It could be an industrial, an industrial park or a business | 00:36:11 | |
location. | 00:36:15 | |
What amenities would the the city or the community best be best? Best would be best to provide to support. | 00:36:20 | |
Business growth, I mean sometimes I, I, I I'd give you some examples but I don't want to color your your answers. I guess the | 00:36:31 | |
question is what community amenities? | 00:36:36 | |
Should there be? Should should might be created or might exist? | 00:36:41 | |
That that would help to support business growth in the future, so. | 00:36:46 | |
I'll leave it at that for now. | 00:36:50 | |
And we'll see what people have to say. | 00:36:52 | |
And again, I think we have 9 questions all together. So we're. | 00:37:05 | |
Mostly through the questions and then we'll have a. | 00:37:08 | |
Then we'll have a discussion with with those of you who who would like to stay on and and talk with us about. | 00:37:11 | |
Your thoughts and. | 00:37:17 | |
Questions you may have about our work, our work on the plan, and so forth. | 00:37:19 | |
And I see some answers coming in. So thank you everyone for participating. We'll just give it a few more seconds before before we | 00:37:26 | |
end the poll and we'll share the results. | 00:37:30 | |
All right. So I will be ending the poll right now. | 00:38:14 | |
Great. So some of the answers we got are hiring local labor. | 00:38:24 | |
Who knows part when, Amy? | 00:38:30 | |
Also updated retail centers, food halls, thrifting and antique store concentrations. | 00:38:33 | |
Many of the many of the retail centers in Port Meneme have been around for quite a while. I think that's a that's a good point | 00:38:42 | |
that's that's that's worth noting we'll we'll we'll make note of that in particular. | 00:38:47 | |
Were there other answers or should we move on to the next question? Laura, we're ready to move on, all right. | 00:38:53 | |
Number 7 and. | 00:39:01 | |
A little bit. There's a this is a little bit of an overlap, but we'd love to know your take on this. | 00:39:04 | |
What type of employment opportunities would be most beneficial to you and other city residents? We know that the Navy and the Port | 00:39:10 | |
are big employers locally. | 00:39:14 | |
But we also know that a lot of people, many, most people who live in Port Meneme, commute out of the city for work. | 00:39:20 | |
And so depending on what you do or what kind of business you hope to grow, we'd be very interested in knowing, as I say, what | 00:39:27 | |
kinds of job or employment opportunities do you think would be most beneficial to you and to other city residents that that you | 00:39:33 | |
may know or or or be familiar with. | 00:39:39 | |
So we'll give that a couple of minutes and we'll see what you have to say and. | 00:39:47 | |
And when we close the poll, we'll Laura will go over the answers as she has before. | 00:39:53 | |
But we'll just wait for a minute or two. | 00:40:07 | |
Until we until we get some answers coming in. | 00:40:13 | |
And we'll let Laura let us know when it's when she's got a few things to communicate. | 00:40:17 | |
Thank you, Bill. | 00:40:25 | |
I see a few answers coming in, so let's. | 00:40:27 | |
Give it a few minutes and. | 00:40:30 | |
We'll move forward with sharing. | 00:40:32 | |
OK. Maybe just another minute or two and then we'll see what people have to say. | 00:40:34 | |
This is pretty. | 00:40:39 | |
I'm speaking to the PFM team. This is pretty informative, kind of as a Ellen's nodding, as a as kind of a kind of a focus group, | 00:40:41 | |
you might say, of Port Menemi residents. | 00:40:48 | |
It's helping us a lot understand. | 00:40:56 | |
The city better than we've understood it before. There's no there's nothing like actually talking to people and listening to what | 00:40:59 | |
people have to say. | 00:41:02 | |
We'll just wait another minute or two. | 00:41:15 | |
Well, how are we doing this? I think we're ready to share actually so. | 00:41:46 | |
Can share results. | 00:41:51 | |
All right. | 00:41:56 | |
One of the employment opportunities was public works employment that pays. | 00:41:58 | |
Prevailing wages? | 00:42:03 | |
A Co working hub for freelancers, tech types and people working remotely. | 00:42:07 | |
One of the things we're we're, we're, we're still, we're still doing our analysis of all the data and information. But one of the | 00:42:13 | |
things we found in many cities is during COVID the number of remote workers went up a lot. | 00:42:18 | |
And we have opportunities for local artists and craftspeople. | 00:42:28 | |
That seems to be a theme that we're hearing. | 00:42:34 | |
Again and again. Great. | 00:42:37 | |
Yes. And we also have small businesses with good support. | 00:42:40 | |
I would be interested to know. | 00:42:47 | |
The author of that comment, if you could drop in the Q&A what kind of support you think small businesses need, I think that would | 00:42:50 | |
be very beneficial to us in understanding how to shape this plan. So if you feel like dropping more detail about that comment into | 00:42:55 | |
the into the Q&A, please do. | 00:43:01 | |
All right. | 00:43:08 | |
And that's all the the answers we received for that question. So we're ready to move on. | 00:43:10 | |
We're going to #8. | 00:43:16 | |
Should there be more? So this is an important question. | 00:43:23 | |
We've talked to a number of people about this. | 00:43:27 | |
Should there be more business or activity at the beach? | 00:43:30 | |
The beach is beautiful. | 00:43:34 | |
A lot of people use it for walking and recreation and. | 00:43:37 | |
Basically just mental health. | 00:43:41 | |
There is one restaurant there. | 00:43:44 | |
There have been a variety of suggestions over the years about what? | 00:43:47 | |
What else might go there? | 00:43:53 | |
And so a question I think we have is. | 00:43:55 | |
Should there be more businesses or activity at the beach and? | 00:43:58 | |
If your answer is yes or yes, maybe or yes depending on what it is. | 00:44:03 | |
It would be great if you could kind of specify what kind of activity or what kind of businesses you think would be most beneficial | 00:44:08 | |
at the beach. | 00:44:12 | |
So let's wait a few minutes and see what happens there. | 00:44:17 | |
See what we get. | 00:44:21 | |
Again, I'll leave it the beaches. | 00:44:46 | |
An incredibly important part of Port Wenimi. | 00:44:49 | |
It's important to us to understand what the options are. | 00:44:54 | |
And how to forge consensus about what, if anything else should should, should be there and how that plays into the economic. | 00:44:58 | |
Future of the city so. | 00:45:07 | |
I'll I'll let Laura let us know when there's. | 00:45:09 | |
When we're moving along on this one. | 00:45:14 | |
Thank you, Bill. The answers are slowly coming in for this one, so let's give everyone. | 00:45:18 | |
This is a big question, so don't feel hesitant to take a extra minute or two and articulate your answer. | 00:45:24 | |
In a very careful way. | 00:45:32 | |
And if you and again. | 00:45:51 | |
If you have a particular. | 00:45:53 | |
Opinion about this that you either don't want to share here in the poll, or that you want to amplify. Drop something in the chat | 00:45:57 | |
or bring it up in the subsequent Q&A conversation. We'd love to hear more detail. A lot of in fact, for about a lot of these | 00:46:03 | |
answers. If you are interested in in sharing more detail, we would love to. | 00:46:09 | |
We would love to hear it. | 00:46:15 | |
All right, we have some answers coming in. | 00:46:21 | |
So I'll keep it open for about 30 seconds and then I'll end the pulling share results. | 00:46:24 | |
Great. | 00:46:31 | |
All right, I'm doing the pull right now. | 00:46:51 | |
Sharing results. | 00:46:55 | |
All right, so. | 00:47:00 | |
One of the answers is at least the retail store that carries Winnie Beach souvenirs like drinks sunscreens. | 00:47:02 | |
Brand Winimi Beach OK. | 00:47:11 | |
Yes, we also have a coffee, tea, juice stand in places for four to five St. vendors that serve a variety of street food, | 00:47:14 | |
refreshments, bike rentals. | 00:47:19 | |
And our last answer is yes, absolutely this is. | 00:47:27 | |
The draw to Ventura County. We have the largest beach in Ventura County all the way to Santa Monica. I mentioned some ideas in the | 00:47:31 | |
QA. It's a huge, maybe the biggest attraction. | 00:47:36 | |
So I can I have that? | 00:47:42 | |
Open up in the QA right now so we can read from there. | 00:47:44 | |
So it says I think for the beach having a blue handicap ramp on the beach between the fire pits. | 00:47:48 | |
With the leg to each fire pit and down to the water like Harbor Cove Beach. | 00:47:56 | |
They feel like it would draw and make it more all inclusive. | 00:48:03 | |
Also having gym tools like hanging rings, tightrope, climbing rope, pull up bars, etcetera would attract. | 00:48:08 | |
You know, gym users and people would do a lot of. | 00:48:16 | |
Social media in the location. | 00:48:21 | |
Also, volleyball. Volleyball courts get a lot of schools. | 00:48:25 | |
To attend we have. | 00:48:31 | |
Farmers markets. | 00:48:34 | |
Also Dogs on beach. | 00:48:37 | |
There seems to be an understanding that money is used to to keep them off, but dogs are important for mental health and would be | 00:48:39 | |
important to you know. | 00:48:44 | |
Be able to have them on the beach. | 00:48:49 | |
And also maybe just from peer to port, more free parking. | 00:48:53 | |
OK. | 00:48:58 | |
All right. I think we can probably go on to the last question, right? | 00:49:01 | |
Yes, we can do that. I do want to point out that we have someone who agreed that places to buy Port Manini Beach branded merch | 00:49:06 | |
would be great and disabled ramps and exercise stations would be great as well. | 00:49:12 | |
All right. Thanks. | 00:49:20 | |
So the last question. | 00:49:21 | |
Is what events. | 00:49:24 | |
Would be most successful in the city of Port Hueneme. | 00:49:27 | |
One of the things that many that help many cities with economic growth is to have special events of a wide variety of kinds that. | 00:49:30 | |
Allows people in the community to experience things and also frankly, spend money on things that ordinarily are not available in | 00:49:43 | |
the city. They also draw people from other locations. We've seen some. | 00:49:50 | |
We've seen some pretty good examples in port menemia in the last two years. I think at the very beginning when Tony was talking, | 00:49:58 | |
we saw a slide that showed the recent. | 00:50:02 | |
Running race for the benefit of of of of heart issues that might be an example. So what events do you think would be most | 00:50:09 | |
successful in the city of Port Hueneme? A really important question as we try to figure out a. | 00:50:17 | |
How best to shape this economic development plan for the future? | 00:50:26 | |
So again, please take your time to type in your answers and after this we will go to AQ and A and I think we'll be you'll be able. | 00:50:33 | |
Basically, raise your hand after this question. I think I'm going to let Laura Turner turn over to Laura to explain what the | 00:50:44 | |
format for the next part of this workshop is going to be. Right, Laura? | 00:50:50 | |
I think you're muted. | 00:50:58 | |
Yes, we'll go over the instructions once we get to that point. | 00:51:00 | |
All right, but in the meantime, please take your time in answering this question if if you're interested in doing so. | 00:51:04 | |
But so far this feedback's been great. | 00:51:30 | |
It's really helped us understand the community a lot better, as I said, than we've seen in the past then we were able to. | 00:51:32 | |
Ellen and I have been to Port Menemi 2-3 times during the course of this project. | 00:51:39 | |
We've talked to a lot of people, but this is this is really rich feedback that's that's helping us a lot. | 00:51:44 | |
So I'll let Laura let us know when. | 00:51:58 | |
We're getting close to a good time to close the this particular final poll question. | 00:52:04 | |
Yes, let's give it a few seconds, I think. | 00:52:11 | |
30 seconds and we can closeout. I see the answers coming in. | 00:52:14 | |
Good. Great. | 00:52:17 | |
All right. I would be ending the pool right now. | 00:52:58 | |
All right, so. | 00:53:07 | |
They're great answers. By the way. We have expanding Wenimi Beach Festival. | 00:53:09 | |
Adding programs like the 5K run, slash, walk, three on three basketball. | 00:53:15 | |
We also have someone who mentioned I only moved back to Ventura County. | 00:53:24 | |
Last September and my family members enjoyed the Banana Festival, Surf Kite Festival, the Dog Parade. | 00:53:29 | |
We also have all of our outdoor events like the Banana Festival. | 00:53:39 | |
Concerts at the beach. Movie Night at the Beach. Farmers Markets. | 00:53:43 | |
All right, then. That's all we have for pool #9. | 00:53:53 | |
All right. So that was a really great exercise. Thank you, Laura, for walking us through that. | 00:53:56 | |
If you can. | 00:54:02 | |
Guide us to the instructions, Laura of the. | 00:54:05 | |
Section of this next that I see we have some comments in the Q&A but but we're going to. | 00:54:09 | |
Go back to. | 00:54:18 | |
Umm. | 00:54:22 | |
Yes, Thank you, Bill. So now we'll get started with the Q&A segment of the meeting. So if you're interested in participating, you | 00:54:25 | |
can do so by submitting your question through the Q&A function. I've seen that some of you have already been utilizing it, so you | 00:54:30 | |
can continue submitting questions through there. For the folks who have been identified the Q&A function, it's at the bottom part | 00:54:36 | |
of our screen. | 00:54:41 | |
Also, another way to participate is if you'd like to provide a verbal comment or a verbal question. You can also do that by | 00:54:47 | |
raising your hand, and then we'll call on your name and allow you to unmute your microphone. | 00:54:53 | |
You know, Please note that we have will have Will Berry, we have the questions coming in through the Q&A and they raised hands. So | 00:55:00 | |
we'll try to alternate to make sure you know we we cover everyone. | 00:55:05 | |
Alright. | 00:55:11 | |
So, so we'd love to have a conversation with you now now that we've gone through the polling questions which which is as Laura | 00:55:14 | |
said, the answers were really great. | 00:55:18 | |
And very helpful to us. | 00:55:23 | |
All right. Well, people are raising their hand or providing their, their questions in the future. We do have someone in the Q&A | 00:55:29 | |
that has added that they feel like it would be. | 00:55:35 | |
Good to have social media account called Visit Port Hueneme, similar to the ones from Visit Camarillo and visit Oxnard. | 00:55:41 | |
And visit Ventura. | 00:55:50 | |
Yes, I, yes, I think that's a very good point. | 00:55:52 | |
Some of those other larger cities have active visitor bureaus. | 00:55:57 | |
That probably manage those social media accounts. | 00:56:02 | |
Port Renee is much smaller, probably doesn't do that. | 00:56:05 | |
But probably has a harder that'd be a harder time doing that. | 00:56:09 | |
But that's definitely a good. | 00:56:13 | |
A good. | 00:56:16 | |
A good idea, and I'm glad that you brought it up. | 00:56:19 | |
And again. | 00:56:23 | |
Feel free. This is a small group. We would love to have a conversation with you if you are if you're interested in in. | 00:56:25 | |
Just raise your hand. | 00:56:35 | |
Or otherwise let Laura know maybe in the Q&A that you'd like to speak. | 00:56:37 | |
And I would again I would love to have. | 00:56:47 | |
A little more detail if you are. | 00:56:51 | |
For those of you who who made comments in the polling, if there was, if there was something in the. | 00:56:54 | |
Hole that you didn't you wanted to provide us with more detail about, Please do so. | 00:57:00 | |
Either in the Q&A or by raising your hand. | 00:57:07 | |
OK. | 00:57:10 | |
All right. I don't see any raised hands at the moment, ma'am. | 00:57:14 | |
Again, I'll go over the instructions again You there's a click, there's a raise hand button. | 00:57:18 | |
That you can click and that'll show us on our end. | 00:57:25 | |
That you would like to speak. So once we see that pop up on our end, we'll call your name and then allow you to unmute yourself. | 00:57:29 | |
So we'll give that a couple more minutes. | 00:57:38 | |
To see if to see if anybody wants to comment on the Q&A part of the. | 00:57:41 | |
Of the. | 00:57:46 | |
Segment. And then there's a few other things we'll say about the process. | 00:57:48 | |
And other opportunities to participate. | 00:57:52 | |
Once we're once we're done with the rest of the of the of the meeting, right, Right, Laura? | 00:57:56 | |
Yeah. | 00:58:02 | |
We really appreciate all of you taking the time tonight. I know there's a lot of, there's always a lot of competition for your | 00:58:09 | |
time. | 00:58:13 | |
There's a lot going on. | 00:58:17 | |
In the world right now to pay attention to. | 00:58:19 | |
And. | 00:58:22 | |
You can always be hard to carve out the time, so we really appreciate your. | 00:58:25 | |
You're doing this? | 00:58:29 | |
If we I'm thinking Laura, we give it another minute or two. | 00:58:31 | |
And if if if nobody wants to raise their hand, then we can. | 00:58:36 | |
Move on to a couple of other things we want to say about the process and other ways to participate in. | 00:58:41 | |
Sounds like a plan. | 00:58:52 | |
And again, Ariana does a great job of. | 00:58:55 | |
Of putting together these meetings. | 00:58:59 | |
And and I have to say, Laura and Adam, you know, as you know, I have worked. | 00:59:03 | |
Many years with Ariano, but not for a while. | 00:59:08 | |
And this, this, these technological advances that you that you brought to the table are really great. They're they're really quite | 00:59:11 | |
wonderful. So thanks for putting the effort in. | 00:59:16 | |
Thank you and thank you everyone for participating as well. | 00:59:23 | |
You've got some really great answers and I'm glad. | 00:59:28 | |
We got to work it out. Yeah, we were. We got some really great answers. Let's let's give it till 7. Laura, I think it's that's one | 00:59:31 | |
or two minutes from now. | 00:59:36 | |
And then we can. | 00:59:41 | |
Move on to a couple of other comments about the process. | 00:59:46 | |
Going. | 00:59:51 | |
Now to participate. | 00:59:54 | |
OK. | 01:00:03 | |
Laura, did you want to talk about the survey? | 01:00:09 | |
Yes, absolutely. So we do have a survey right now that is live. | 01:00:15 | |
And essentially we just like to know similar to the meeting today on how like what could we do really to improve port winning and | 01:00:21 | |
in terms of tourism, in terms of business. So I will be dropping the link to the survey in the chat. | 01:00:30 | |
Feel free to look at it, participated in it, if you'd like to also share it with your colleagues, your family and friends to | 01:00:41 | |
participate. We really encourage that. We want to make sure that you know, we get. | 01:00:47 | |
A lot of feedback from you all. At the end of the day you know this is your home, this is where you you work and you operate on a | 01:00:53 | |
day-to-day basis. So we want to make sure that we have a good variety and feedback. So I will be dropping that in the chat right | 01:00:57 | |
now. | 01:01:02 | |
All right, there's the survey in the chat. | 01:01:11 | |
If you want just. | 01:01:14 | |
That's her, that grab, that survey that can you get and for those for if somebody wants to tell others about the survey. | 01:01:18 | |
You can get can you get to it through the city website or. | 01:01:28 | |
If you don't have the URL, how do you how do you get to it? | 01:01:33 | |
We will be posting it on the city website. I know there's we will be promoting it via the social media as well. So you'll be | 01:01:38 | |
seeing that coming through. So feel free to stay connected throughout the different communications channels that we have shared. | 01:01:44 | |
On screen we have the city website. | 01:01:49 | |
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. By the way, YouTube will have uploaded the the video of today as well. So if you have any | 01:01:55 | |
colleagues, family and friends that weren't able to join us today, the video of today's meeting will be uploaded there. | 01:02:02 | |
And and really if you or anybody you know has any comments about? | 01:02:10 | |
The future economic direction. | 01:02:16 | |
Use any of these portals, right? Any of these channels on Facebook, Instagram, whatever. | 01:02:20 | |
You know, on Instagram, send us a picture of of the thing that you like the most, That kind of thing. | 01:02:27 | |
So a little bit about the steps going forward. | 01:02:33 | |
We have been doing interviews with economic stakeholders in town. | 01:02:40 | |
We are doing a lot of data analysis to understand the economic conditions in Port Wenimi. | 01:02:46 | |
We are talking to a lot of business owners and others. | 01:02:56 | |
And what we'll be doing over the next few weeks is beginning to shape what the beginnings of what might look like our | 01:02:59 | |
recommendations. | 01:03:03 | |
And in the middle of May we're going to have an in person workshop in Port Munimi and Laura Adam can remind me of the date, it's | 01:03:08 | |
it's mid-May as I recall. | 01:03:13 | |
Or Ellen, do you, if you recall. | 01:03:19 | |
And it will be. | 01:03:22 | |
Do we? Do we remember where it's going to be? | 01:03:24 | |
Or that we haven't figured that out yet. | 01:03:27 | |
It will be Thursday, May 16th. I don't think we have a specific location yet. We're still working on that. | 01:03:30 | |
So stay tuned. So, so we will be talking to more people and running the survey. | 01:03:38 | |
And Lauren, Adam, I believe we're running the survey. | 01:03:45 | |
At least to the end of April, if not beyond right. So that survey will be out there for a month or more. | 01:03:50 | |
In mid-May, May 16th, when we have a work, a workshop which will be at some public venue in port winning. We haven't figured out | 01:03:59 | |
where yet. | 01:04:02 | |
Probably at that point we will have, we will have some preliminary recommendations we're going to want to bounce off of you and | 01:04:06 | |
others. | 01:04:10 | |
Who? | 01:04:15 | |
Who are active in the Port Munimi community and then after that we will craft our final draft. | 01:04:18 | |
Economic development plan, which I believe we are going to be scheduled to bring to the City Council in July so that they can, as | 01:04:25 | |
you probably know the City Council goes dark in August. So it we're hoping that we will bring the final product to the City | 01:04:31 | |
Council in July so they can adopt it then and then the city can move forward to try to improve both quality of life and economic | 01:04:37 | |
conditions in in Port Winima in a way that really has they've been unable to do before. So I think that's probably about all we | 01:04:43 | |
have for tonight, Laura. | 01:04:50 | |
Right. | 01:04:56 | |
That's correct, Bill. And again, I want to thank you for coming out tonight. I know it's it's very difficult to break away. | 01:04:58 | |
I want to thank Aria. I want to thank Ariana for setting all this up. | 01:05:06 | |
And again. | 01:05:10 | |
Please feel free to contact us in through any of these channels if you have a question. If you have a comment, if you want to talk | 01:05:12 | |
to us, just please let us know. So thanks again for joining us tonight and and as Laura said, this video will be up on YouTube | 01:05:17 | |
soon. | 01:05:22 | |
And so. So if if any of your friends or family want to think about those polling questions, you can't quite remember them all, I | 01:05:28 | |
would just watch the video, right? | 01:05:32 | |
So again, thanks very much for being with us tonight and we look forward to continuing to have this conversation with you and | 01:05:39 | |
everyone else in port menemia over the next few months about the economic future of the city. | 01:05:44 | |
Thanks. | 01:05:51 |
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All right. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our virtual community meeting for the City of Port Munin's Economic Development | 00:01:48 | |
Plan. I'm Laura Hernandez from Ariana Associates, part of the outreach team, and I will be one of today's facilitators. | 00:01:55 | |
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All right. I will now pass it over to Tony Stewart to provide us some opening remarks. | 00:03:38 | |
Thank you, Tony, and thank you, Laura. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for participating in the City of Port Wyoming Mesa | 00:03:45 | |
First Economic Development Workshop. I'm Tony Stewart, the Community and Economic Development Department Director for the the City | 00:03:51 | |
of Port Hueneme. | 00:03:56 | |
And as you all know, port winding is a very unique place. We're small, but we have a vibrant community. We're home to the Navy | 00:04:02 | |
base of Ventura County as well as the Port of Winemie. We have a fantastic beach and many other assets. | 00:04:07 | |
But as you also know, there are factors that create economic challenges for the city, and they have for years. | 00:04:14 | |
Primarily due to our being built out, we're landlocked by Oxnard. | 00:04:20 | |
We're several miles from the one O 1 freeway, etcetera. | 00:04:24 | |
And so, therefore, last year, the City Council authorized the creation of a new economic development plan. | 00:04:28 | |
That could be used to obtain the community's input and explore economic development ideas, as well as to generate a plan to move | 00:04:33 | |
economic growth forward in the city of Port Hueneme. | 00:04:39 | |
Tonight is one of those key components of this project, and this is where it's going to be valuable for gathering your input. | 00:04:45 | |
The city has hired the PFM Group to lead this project, along with Ariano Associates. | 00:04:52 | |
And they will be discussing a variety of topics and ideas with you this evening, taking you through a poll. So we'll be very | 00:04:57 | |
engaging process and we hope that you look forward and and. | 00:05:02 | |
Get some real valuable experience from this workshop. | 00:05:08 | |
So at this point, I'd like to introduce Alan Romage and Bill Fulton from PFM and turn it over to Bill, who will take you through | 00:05:12 | |
our meeting here. Thank you again for attending. | 00:05:17 | |
Thank you, Tony, and good evening, everybody. I'm Bill Fulton. I'm a Senior advisor to PFM Consulting Group. | 00:05:23 | |
As Tony said, we are specialists in economic issues associated with local governments, like cities. | 00:05:31 | |
And so we are have been hired by the city to prepare the city's first I believe, am I right, Tony economic development plan. | 00:05:39 | |
So it's been pretty exciting for us so far. Let me let me talk a little bit about how we're going to go through this agenda | 00:05:48 | |
tonight. | 00:05:52 | |
We're doing the introductions now and the overview. | 00:05:58 | |
I'm going to discuss what the Economic Development Plan is and what it's supposed to do. | 00:06:04 | |
We're going to talk about goals and actually what we're going to do is I. | 00:06:09 | |
Have a little live polling? We're going to ask you some questions about Port Hueneme and your thoughts and your viewpoint about | 00:06:14 | |
what might be, what should happen and what might be in the plan. | 00:06:20 | |
We'll have a we'll have an open discussion in Q&A segment. | 00:06:28 | |
And I think it's fair to say that at any point during the evening, if you have a question, please put the question in the the Q&A | 00:06:33 | |
box down at the bottom and and we will address that when we get to the Q&A part. First, I'm going to make a little bit of | 00:06:40 | |
introduction about what this economic development plan is. | 00:06:47 | |
And then Laura's going to help me work, walk through these polls, these quest, these poll questions where you all will answer | 00:06:54 | |
answer the questions we have and then we'll have an open discussion Q&A and and and and depending on how many people we have, it | 00:07:03 | |
could be pretty, pretty robust and and fun. Sometimes it's more fun with a smaller group. So if we can go on to the next slide. | 00:07:11 | |
Here. | 00:07:21 | |
Tony mentioned this, and I assume that most of you here tonight know everything I'm about to say. | 00:07:24 | |
Port Oneemia is a beautiful little city. It's as you know, it's right on the coast, you know has a beautiful beachfront as you can | 00:07:29 | |
see here and as I'm sure you know from your daily life, also some wonderful parks. It is a small city, very small. It one of the | 00:07:37 | |
smallest cities in Ventura County both geographically and in population. And of course as Tony said, most of the land in the city | 00:07:45 | |
is taken up by Naval Base, Ventura County and the port of Wanimi. | 00:07:52 | |
So, so we're we're here to understand. | 00:08:01 | |
What some of the issues are? | 00:08:06 | |
In Port Hueneme, how that relates to business and economic growth and actually the revenue for the city and how we can help the | 00:08:08 | |
city, the City Council and Tony and the City Manager shape a plan going forward that will improve the economic health of the | 00:08:17 | |
community while at the same time retaining the high quality of life that you already have. If we can go to the next slide, I. | 00:08:26 | |
As I said. | 00:08:36 | |
The intent is to the of the Economic Development plan, which, for short, we can call the EDP, but I will try to call it the | 00:08:38 | |
Economic Development plan to avoid confusion. | 00:08:43 | |
It aims to ensure community prosperity. As you know, Port Meneme has come out of some difficult Financial Times. | 00:08:48 | |
Thanks in large part to Measure you the, the sales tax and the and the cannabis businesses, but nevertheless, how? A question is | 00:08:57 | |
how can Port Hueneme retain long term community prosperity? Not just the fiscal prosperity for the city government, but the | 00:09:03 | |
prosperity for everyone who lives in the community. | 00:09:10 | |
And this plan is part of the reason we're having this effort is this plan will be a commute collaborative effort involving City | 00:09:17 | |
Council staff, residents. | 00:09:21 | |
Businesses in the public and it will reflect the city's unique culture and character. One of the things that that I like to do and | 00:09:27 | |
I know we like to do when we assist the city, is truly immerse ourselves in the city and understand it and understand what the | 00:09:33 | |
culture and what the character is of that city if we move on to the next slide. | 00:09:40 | |
Just a little bit about what is an economic development plan? | 00:09:47 | |
An economic development plan is for the city government is, as you can see here, we call it, a strategic road map designed to | 00:09:53 | |
stimulate and sustain economic growth and prosperity within the community. And it really is intended to be a road map. | 00:10:01 | |
What the plan will do and and it it's playing to a certain extent off of the of off of the recent general plan. | 00:10:10 | |
The the The Economic Development Plan will outline goals the economic goals of the city, Not just the fiscal goals of the city | 00:10:17 | |
government, but the economic goals of the community as a whole. It will identify strategies that the city can undertake with | 00:10:24 | |
partners like the Navy and the port and the school district in order to and then what specific action steps should be taken over | 00:10:30 | |
the next few years to try to. | 00:10:36 | |
Pursue those strategies and achieve those goals. And the goals will be aimed at retaining existing businesses, attracting new | 00:10:43 | |
businesses, creating jobs, enhancing infrastructure and improving the overall quality of life. | 00:10:50 | |
For the residents. So with that, I think if I'm not mistaken, Laura, we move on. Do we move on to the, oh, I'm sorry, one more | 00:10:58 | |
thing the the the goals we've identified that are most likely. | 00:11:05 | |
To be to be highlighted in the economic development plan at this point will be. | 00:11:13 | |
Revenue enhancement. | 00:11:20 | |
A revenue I mentioned Measure U and the cannabis businesses, but the city will have to continue to to figure out how to make sure | 00:11:21 | |
the city government has enough revenue to maintain operations to provide a high quality of life to the community. | 00:11:29 | |
We'll look at opportunities for infill development. Port Wenemia is built out basically has. | 00:11:37 | |
No vacant land or almost no vacant land. | 00:11:44 | |
And so. | 00:11:48 | |
We will be working with the city and the community to identify where potential development could occur in reusing existing | 00:11:50 | |
properties. That's called infill development. | 00:11:56 | |
We'll talk about the the proposed downtown and the downtown branding. | 00:12:02 | |
There, there is a there. There is a designated area where a downtown might go or might be recreated after having been torn out | 00:12:10 | |
many years ago. | 00:12:15 | |
We'll talk about how it is it might be possible to expand tourism. | 00:12:21 | |
To provide both economic opportunity for the people who live in Port Hueneme and additional revenue for the city without without | 00:12:27 | |
deteriorating and hopefully enhancing the quality of life for the people who live here. And also probably another goal will be to | 00:12:34 | |
create high wage and high tech jobs. There is a lot of high tech activity at the Navy at the naval base with not only by the Navy | 00:12:41 | |
itself but by defense contractors and there's a variety of opportunities where some of those jobs and and some of those high tech | 00:12:48 | |
businesses might be able to. | 00:12:55 | |
Be retained in in port with Nimi or or grown in Port Wanimi. So these are likely the goals that we're going to see in the plan | 00:13:03 | |
these these are subject to discussion and tweaking and so forth but but what? But when we were hired these are pretty much the | 00:13:09 | |
goals the city had in mind. | 00:13:16 | |
And all that is just to say is just to provide some background. | 00:13:23 | |
And now, I think now, am I correct, Laura, now we move on to the polling question. So this is one of the most fun parts of having | 00:13:29 | |
this. So, so again what we're going to try to do is. | 00:13:36 | |
We have a number of questions we'd like to ask you. | 00:13:43 | |
You can. You'll be able to answer those questions in real time on your computer. We'll see the results in real time. We will, of | 00:13:47 | |
course, also record. | 00:13:51 | |
And and. | 00:13:57 | |
And and then after that and partly as a result of what we hear, we will have AQ and A and a broader discretion. So here's polling | 00:14:00 | |
question number one. It's on your screen now in both English and Spanish. And this is a question. This is not a multiple choice | 00:14:07 | |
question or anything, right, Laura, this is a, we can ask the question, what for you, what makes the city of Port Wenimi special? | 00:14:14 | |
We're trying to understand? | 00:14:21 | |
What is unique and special to you about Port Winima that might be able to form the basis for future prosperity? So please, we've | 00:14:28 | |
opened this poll up right Laura? | 00:14:33 | |
And please answer the question. | 00:14:40 | |
And then I think we will let you know when we close this question. | 00:14:42 | |
And I and we might be able to. Am I right? Laura will be able to see the answers in real time on the screen. Is that right? | 00:14:49 | |
We should be able to share the results, yes. Yes. So, so right now if all of you wouldn't mind, if you, if you so desire, to | 00:14:55 | |
answer the question on the screen, in the box, on the screen where it says enter an answer that is less than 200 characters, what | 00:15:02 | |
makes the city of Port Menini special. So we'll just give you a minute to do that. | 00:15:09 | |
I will wait just a second. | 00:15:16 | |
And we'll see what people have to say, right, Laura? | 00:15:18 | |
That's correct. Thank you Bill. And then just you know if anyone's having issues accessing the poll, you can also drop your your | 00:15:21 | |
answers in the Q&A feature and then we'll make sure that we document that right and we are not just gonna show these in real time, | 00:15:27 | |
here we will. | 00:15:33 | |
Record them. | 00:15:40 | |
We will, we will have a record of them and we will take that into account in in. | 00:15:41 | |
In preparing the draft plan that will that we will be submitting to the City Council, I should say, and and that the. | 00:15:47 | |
That we expect that the final plan will be approved by the City Council this summer. We're working on it. This, we worked on it | 00:15:57 | |
through the winter. We're going to work on it through the spring. | 00:16:02 | |
And I believe. | 00:16:09 | |
Meant to go to the City Council for approval in July. | 00:16:11 | |
So again, feel free to answer the poll question. | 00:16:16 | |
And I think Laura is probably best best situated to tell us. | 00:16:20 | |
We're going to close the polling for this particular question, right? | 00:16:25 | |
I'm seeing some questions, some responses coming in, so we'll just give it a few. | 00:16:31 | |
We'll just get, we'll just give it a, we'll give it a few more minutes and again I think there's nine questions here. We'll go | 00:16:38 | |
through the nine questions and then we're happy to have a round table discussion, have AQ and A again if you have A, if you have a | 00:16:43 | |
question yourself. | 00:16:48 | |
Which does not come up. | 00:16:53 | |
As a result of any of these polling questions we're asking you, please just drop that in the Q&A or a comment that if it does not | 00:16:55 | |
pertain to any of the to to any of the questions we come up with. | 00:17:02 | |
So we're just give it I think another minute or two Laura, correct. | 00:17:09 | |
Yeah, we can give it a few seconds, I see. | 00:17:14 | |
You have four out of seven right now, so let's see if we get a little bit more participation. Please feel free. | 00:17:17 | |
I I assume all of you report Wanimi residents. You probably all have. Everyone always has a strong opinion about their hometown. I | 00:17:25 | |
I assume you have probably have a strong opinion about what makes Port Wenimi special and what you hope to protect and enhance and | 00:17:31 | |
add to. | 00:17:37 | |
As part of this, as part, as in in ensuring future prosperity. So again, I'll. | 00:17:45 | |
I'll leave it up to Laura to tell us when that when, when it's a good time to close this polling question. | 00:17:51 | |
But thanks again to all of you. Oh, here we go. | 00:17:56 | |
Alright, so let's share results. | 00:17:59 | |
All right. | 00:18:05 | |
OK, so. | 00:18:07 | |
I see that the. | 00:18:15 | |
Questions have been answered. I'm not sure we see the. | 00:18:17 | |
Answers on the screen, Do we? | 00:18:19 | |
Yeah, if you click on View Details, it'll take you to the answers, but I'm more than happy to verbally provide the answers that we | 00:18:22 | |
received. So one of our first answers is the commercial port and naval base. | 00:18:29 | |
We also have diverse cultures, local feel, economic potential and diversity of housing stock. | 00:18:37 | |
Diversity of housing stock, economic potential. That's great. | 00:18:45 | |
We also have the small town field with a variety of community events in the wonderful beach. | 00:18:50 | |
It is a wonderful beach indeed. That's a great point. | 00:18:56 | |
And lastly, we have the size is Queen. It's easy to feel at home. It's mostly beach and being around water. | 00:19:00 | |
Blue Spaces is very positive. It's a very healthy neighborhood because of its location. It's a family town. | 00:19:07 | |
A family town? That's always very important. | 00:19:14 | |
Well, those are good. So we've captured those. That's a wide, I think Laura, that's quite a wide variety of responses. | 00:19:19 | |
To that first question from a relatively small number of people. And again, we're we're, we're capturing all of these responses, | 00:19:26 | |
right, Laura? And we will have them all and and we will, they're not just going to disappear into the ephemera when the meeting is | 00:19:32 | |
over, but. So why don't we move on to the second question, Laura, can we do that? | 00:19:39 | |
Absolutely. | 00:19:46 | |
So the second question is. | 00:19:49 | |
What is the City of Port Hueneme missing? I mean, there are many wonderful things about Port Wenimi. | 00:19:51 | |
But there are many, but it's a small city. | 00:19:56 | |
And there may be things that you think are important to the future report when Emil are important to your own quality of life or | 00:19:59 | |
to the prosperity of the community and you and your family that are missing. | 00:20:04 | |
So we'd love to hear your thoughts about what is Port Hueneme missing? | 00:20:10 | |
So I'm, I'm. We'll just give you a minute or two. | 00:20:17 | |
To answer that question and again I'll I'll leave it. | 00:20:20 | |
Laura to. | 00:20:24 | |
Tell me when, when is a good time to to close the? | 00:20:27 | |
The to close the poll. I think having these real time polling opportunities is a real game changer for public engagement. | 00:20:32 | |
Certainly over the years I've done many, many public workshops and to have this kind of immediate feedback, feedback even online | 00:20:39 | |
is really quite wonderful. So I want to thank Ariana Associates for for bringing us this technology today. Thank you, Lauren. | 00:20:45 | |
Thank you, Adam. | 00:20:52 | |
Adam, Adam Douglas, also with Ariana. | 00:20:59 | |
So again, I'll leave it to Laura to tell us. | 00:21:04 | |
When we have some answers here. | 00:21:09 | |
Thank you, Bill. We don't have any answers yet, so let's give everyone a few minutes. | 00:21:13 | |
Sometimes it's harder to say what's missing than what's there. | 00:21:19 | |
Sometimes it's harder to say. | 00:21:24 | |
What? What isn't there? What is there like the beach? | 00:21:26 | |
Or the naval base are obvious things that you can think of immediately. | 00:21:31 | |
Port Menemi is a small city. | 00:21:36 | |
Many people travel to Oxnard or other surrounding cities for certain activities. | 00:21:38 | |
And so you might think about what kinds of things do you wish you had and oxen if that far, not that far away. But you might ask | 00:21:45 | |
other people, you might think about what what do you travel across the city line to Oxnard or other cities for? And would you like | 00:21:52 | |
to see those things in in Port Menemei or are there other things missing that would enhance your life or but or again enhance the | 00:22:00 | |
economic potential and the economic benefit to the not just to the city government again. | 00:22:08 | |
But to the people of port we need. | 00:22:17 | |
Thank you, Bill. And just a reminder, if you know there's something that you think of after the fact, you know, feel free to plug | 00:22:20 | |
that in. The Q&A feature even if you already passed the poll, we understand. Yeah, we understand that sometimes when we share the | 00:22:25 | |
answers you. | 00:22:29 | |
Probably that something else comes to mind, so feel free to put it in and we'll make sure to document it. | 00:22:34 | |
Yeah, OK. | 00:22:40 | |
So we'll we'll see what we come up with here. | 00:22:42 | |
On this end. | 00:22:45 | |
All right. We have a few that have come in. So let me just give it a few seconds and then we'll we'll share what what we. | 00:22:47 | |
Well, this is fun to see what people are saying in real time. | 00:22:56 | |
And as I say we can have, we can answer Q&A and and have a discussion about this after the. | 00:23:04 | |
You'll have the opportunity to ask questions in real time once we've done with the 9 polling questions, right, Laura? | 00:23:11 | |
Yes, we'll have AQ and A segment. | 00:23:18 | |
All right, so I'm going to end this pull right now. | 00:23:28 | |
And pull up the results. | 00:23:32 | |
All right. So As for this question, we have. | 00:23:37 | |
What is missing, right. So one answer was grocery stores near beach neighborhoods, Grocery stores near beach neighborhoods, I | 00:23:43 | |
think. I think we may have only one grocery store. | 00:23:48 | |
Actually, uh-huh. | 00:23:53 | |
Also a playground equipment at the beach. | 00:23:55 | |
Oh, right. Good. | 00:23:59 | |
Small business assistance beyond. | 00:24:02 | |
The cannabis businesses. | 00:24:05 | |
Assistance for other small businesses besides the cannabis businesses, OK. | 00:24:07 | |
Art spaces. | 00:24:13 | |
Art. | 00:24:15 | |
Yeah, many cities in Ventura County have been very aggressive about about creating. | 00:24:17 | |
Places and spaces for art, that's true. | 00:24:23 | |
OK. We also have evening entertainment. | 00:24:29 | |
Fine Dining locations, Cafe types. | 00:24:35 | |
Cafe type places together. | 00:24:39 | |
It's funny, I'll be, you know, so often times it's it's not just a venue but a gathering place. | 00:24:42 | |
Around food that people respond to. | 00:24:49 | |
All right. We also have more community activities that are not necessarily for kids, things to draw guests and local together to | 00:24:53 | |
participate together. | 00:24:57 | |
It's not, in my opinion, much to draw people to hear. | 00:25:03 | |
OK. All right. | 00:25:06 | |
So that pretty much all of the answers we got on on this one. | 00:25:09 | |
Yes. And I do see a comment from Julie in the Q&A. She says that she has a lot of ideas to draw people together and she's making a | 00:25:14 | |
list. So Julie, feel free to drop that in the Q&A segment in the Q&A feature and we'll make sure to make a note of that. And | 00:25:20 | |
again, if you'd like to verbally discuss those once we hit, we hit the Q&A segment, You're more than welcome to do so. Yeah, | 00:25:26 | |
please do that. Thank you. Thank you, Julie. | 00:25:32 | |
All right. So are we probably ready to move on to the next question? | 00:25:38 | |
Yes. | 00:25:43 | |
Let's launch that. | 00:25:44 | |
This is a question. | 00:25:46 | |
That we were talking about before. | 00:25:48 | |
Shopping opportunities in Port Winneme can be somewhat limited. | 00:25:53 | |
And so in order to think about how to attract. | 00:25:56 | |
Shopping opportunities, retail stores, Businesses that you can patronize closer to your residence. One of the things we really | 00:26:01 | |
need to understand is is is when you leave the city to go to Oxnard or somewhere else? | 00:26:08 | |
Where do you go? And I guess to shop? And I guess the question could be, the answer could be. | 00:26:16 | |
Either what stores do you go to or it could be what location do you go to. For example if you go to the collection over in Oxnard. | 00:26:22 | |
So that this is, you could answer this question however you want. | 00:26:34 | |
Either either a geographical location, a particular store, or or you can answer it any other way you'd like. | 00:26:37 | |
So again, this is, I think, one of the most important questions for the city. | 00:26:46 | |
Because there's a strong desire on the part of everyone that I've talked to in Port Munini so far, including the city officials, | 00:26:52 | |
to try to strengthen the retail sector. | 00:26:56 | |
So that local folks have more shopping opportunities closer to home. | 00:27:02 | |
So we'll see what people have to say about this one. | 00:27:10 | |
And again. | 00:27:18 | |
I'll leave it to Laura to monitor this and let us know when we're getting close to. | 00:27:20 | |
A time when we can. | 00:27:25 | |
Can provide some provide some answers. | 00:27:30 | |
Absolutely. We have some answers coming in, so I'll just allow a few more minutes for people to answer. I know it takes a little | 00:27:35 | |
while to type, so I'm sure we have a lot of good answers coming in. | 00:27:40 | |
All right. Well, thank you everyone for being patient while we work through this, but this is really an important way. | 00:27:47 | |
For all of for us to connect with you and actually also for you to connect with each other, because like Laura said. | 00:27:53 | |
You might see it, see or hear an answer. | 00:27:59 | |
And that might stimulate further thinking on your part. And as as Laura said, if that does, please just drop anything you want | 00:28:02 | |
into the Q&A, right? | 00:28:06 | |
All right. I think we are ready to share. So give me one second and I'll pull those results up. | 00:28:28 | |
All right, so one of the answers is because of the range of alternatives, Camarillo or Oxnard. | 00:28:40 | |
There's lots of shopping opportunities in Canberra, I can understand why people would. | 00:28:49 | |
Go over there. Uh-huh. | 00:28:53 | |
We have someone else likewise that goes to downtown Oxnard for boutique, vintage and antique stores. | 00:28:55 | |
And there ought to be an opportunity in Port Hueneme for that kind of boutique small scale story. You would think that's a very | 00:29:02 | |
good, that's a very good observation. | 00:29:06 | |
And people go to to Old Camarillo and Main Street Ventura for arts, craft stores and gourmet foods. | 00:29:12 | |
We also have someone who goes to Ventura Harbor and Channel Island Harbor. They consider everything is there. There's shopping, | 00:29:24 | |
recreation, restaurants, excursions, rentals. | 00:29:29 | |
OK, this is really good feedback I think Laura, thank you. | 00:29:36 | |
All right. And I don't see anything additional in the Q&A. So I think we're ready to go to the next poll. So we'll go on to poll | 00:29:43 | |
question #4. | 00:29:47 | |
Somebody mentioned that there that there are not that many nighttime entertainment opportunities. I believe somebody mentioned | 00:29:53 | |
that a while ago. So one of the questions we want to ask is what entertainment options? | 00:29:59 | |
Do you wish? | 00:30:04 | |
We're here in the city of Port Wenimi. What entertainment options may be something that you do elsewhere, or maybe something that | 00:30:06 | |
you? | 00:30:10 | |
Maybe something that you wish you could do but it doesn't exist or it's too far away. | 00:30:16 | |
What entertainment options do you wish? We're here in the city of port when. I mean, I think this too is a very important question | 00:30:23 | |
for the economic development plan because one of our goals, I think to improve the economy and to create more business opportunity | 00:30:30 | |
is to find ways for people who live in Port Hueneme to stay here, to stay in Port Wenimi to do. | 00:30:38 | |
The things that they. | 00:30:47 | |
That they want to do and also to attract people from surrounding communities when that is beneficial to the to to the city so. | 00:30:49 | |
What entertainment options do you wish existed in the city of Port we need? | 00:30:58 | |
So we'll wait a minute or two, I think, to see what, like as Laura says, it takes time to type. | 00:31:05 | |
Depending on whether you're a fast typist or a slow typist, or if you're. | 00:31:11 | |
On your computer or on your phone? | 00:31:15 | |
They can be a take a while to type if you're on your phone, so we will. | 00:31:18 | |
Give it another couple of minutes. I think Laura, right? | 00:31:23 | |
Yes, we have some answers coming in, but let's give you a few seconds. Yeah, great. This is going along nicely. | 00:31:27 | |
Thank you for being such a good sort of technological moderator there, Laura. Thank you. | 00:31:34 | |
So we're probably almost ready to hear what people have to say about this topic. | 00:31:57 | |
Yes, we'll be closing out in a few seconds. | 00:32:03 | |
All right, I'm ending the poll right now. | 00:32:12 | |
And sharing results. | 00:32:16 | |
All right, we have independent movie theaters, late night dining, slash cocktail bars and karaoke. | 00:32:22 | |
And another again they. | 00:32:34 | |
Same thing they would like a movie theater to consider. It would be a great opportunity to. | 00:32:37 | |
To have that type of entertainment. | 00:32:43 | |
OK. | 00:32:47 | |
All right. Well, why don't we move on to? | 00:32:51 | |
Poll Question #5. | 00:32:53 | |
Because we want to keep this moving, we want to get to the discussion. | 00:32:58 | |
What businesses do you think would be the most successful in the city of Port Wenimi? Because I think that's a little bit | 00:33:02 | |
different question than what do you wish was here? | 00:33:07 | |
Because on the one hand, when you say, when you ask yourself what do you wish was here? | 00:33:12 | |
Port when he may or may not have the conditions for that, but but most people who live in a community have a very good sense of | 00:33:18 | |
what that community is about. | 00:33:22 | |
And what it and and? | 00:33:26 | |
And and what it, what it is can best accommodate. So given what you know about Port Menemi, what kinds of businesses do you think | 00:33:29 | |
would be the most successful, more successful than any others? So I think that's the question here so. | 00:33:36 | |
We'll see what people have to say. | 00:33:44 | |
Over the next few minutes and I'm sorry. | 00:33:46 | |
To go to go silent for a minute or two, but we really do need to give everybody a chance to type, like Laura said, right. | 00:33:49 | |
Absolutely. | 00:33:58 | |
So we'll give it a minute. | 00:33:59 | |
And I want to again say thanks to to both Laura and Adam from Ariano Associates. | 00:34:09 | |
For bringing us this technology and for actually putting this whole. | 00:34:14 | |
Session together. | 00:34:18 | |
Umm, we will be having an in person workshop. | 00:34:20 | |
Later in the spring, we'll talk about that at the end. | 00:34:26 | |
Now I do see some answers coming in, so let's just give it a one more minute to allow for some additional answers. | 00:34:33 | |
All right. | 00:34:45 | |
All right. And we'll be ending the poll right now. | 00:35:13 | |
And let's see what we've heard. | 00:35:17 | |
All right. So what businesses do you think would be most successful? | 00:35:22 | |
In the area so we have family friendly restaurants. | 00:35:28 | |
Cocktail bars and we have someone who is not sure. So maybe you know as we hear the different options and hear the conversation, | 00:35:31 | |
there might be a few. | 00:35:36 | |
That might come to mind later. So again, those that happens, you know, place it in the Q&A. | 00:35:41 | |
Feature, and we'll make sure to address it. | 00:35:46 | |
And it's the second time cocktail bars have come up, interestingly enough. | 00:35:49 | |
So but it is happy hour so. | 00:35:53 | |
How about we move on to the next question, number six? | 00:36:00 | |
What amenities do you believe would best ensure business growth if you think about? | 00:36:05 | |
Successful business districts and that could be a retail district. It could be an industrial, an industrial park or a business | 00:36:11 | |
location. | 00:36:15 | |
What amenities would the the city or the community best be best? Best would be best to provide to support. | 00:36:20 | |
Business growth, I mean sometimes I, I, I I'd give you some examples but I don't want to color your your answers. I guess the | 00:36:31 | |
question is what community amenities? | 00:36:36 | |
Should there be? Should should might be created or might exist? | 00:36:41 | |
That that would help to support business growth in the future, so. | 00:36:46 | |
I'll leave it at that for now. | 00:36:50 | |
And we'll see what people have to say. | 00:36:52 | |
And again, I think we have 9 questions all together. So we're. | 00:37:05 | |
Mostly through the questions and then we'll have a. | 00:37:08 | |
Then we'll have a discussion with with those of you who who would like to stay on and and talk with us about. | 00:37:11 | |
Your thoughts and. | 00:37:17 | |
Questions you may have about our work, our work on the plan, and so forth. | 00:37:19 | |
And I see some answers coming in. So thank you everyone for participating. We'll just give it a few more seconds before before we | 00:37:26 | |
end the poll and we'll share the results. | 00:37:30 | |
All right. So I will be ending the poll right now. | 00:38:14 | |
Great. So some of the answers we got are hiring local labor. | 00:38:24 | |
Who knows part when, Amy? | 00:38:30 | |
Also updated retail centers, food halls, thrifting and antique store concentrations. | 00:38:33 | |
Many of the many of the retail centers in Port Meneme have been around for quite a while. I think that's a that's a good point | 00:38:42 | |
that's that's that's worth noting we'll we'll we'll make note of that in particular. | 00:38:47 | |
Were there other answers or should we move on to the next question? Laura, we're ready to move on, all right. | 00:38:53 | |
Number 7 and. | 00:39:01 | |
A little bit. There's a this is a little bit of an overlap, but we'd love to know your take on this. | 00:39:04 | |
What type of employment opportunities would be most beneficial to you and other city residents? We know that the Navy and the Port | 00:39:10 | |
are big employers locally. | 00:39:14 | |
But we also know that a lot of people, many, most people who live in Port Meneme, commute out of the city for work. | 00:39:20 | |
And so depending on what you do or what kind of business you hope to grow, we'd be very interested in knowing, as I say, what | 00:39:27 | |
kinds of job or employment opportunities do you think would be most beneficial to you and to other city residents that that you | 00:39:33 | |
may know or or or be familiar with. | 00:39:39 | |
So we'll give that a couple of minutes and we'll see what you have to say and. | 00:39:47 | |
And when we close the poll, we'll Laura will go over the answers as she has before. | 00:39:53 | |
But we'll just wait for a minute or two. | 00:40:07 | |
Until we until we get some answers coming in. | 00:40:13 | |
And we'll let Laura let us know when it's when she's got a few things to communicate. | 00:40:17 | |
Thank you, Bill. | 00:40:25 | |
I see a few answers coming in, so let's. | 00:40:27 | |
Give it a few minutes and. | 00:40:30 | |
We'll move forward with sharing. | 00:40:32 | |
OK. Maybe just another minute or two and then we'll see what people have to say. | 00:40:34 | |
This is pretty. | 00:40:39 | |
I'm speaking to the PFM team. This is pretty informative, kind of as a Ellen's nodding, as a as kind of a kind of a focus group, | 00:40:41 | |
you might say, of Port Menemi residents. | 00:40:48 | |
It's helping us a lot understand. | 00:40:56 | |
The city better than we've understood it before. There's no there's nothing like actually talking to people and listening to what | 00:40:59 | |
people have to say. | 00:41:02 | |
We'll just wait another minute or two. | 00:41:15 | |
Well, how are we doing this? I think we're ready to share actually so. | 00:41:46 | |
Can share results. | 00:41:51 | |
All right. | 00:41:56 | |
One of the employment opportunities was public works employment that pays. | 00:41:58 | |
Prevailing wages? | 00:42:03 | |
A Co working hub for freelancers, tech types and people working remotely. | 00:42:07 | |
One of the things we're we're, we're, we're still, we're still doing our analysis of all the data and information. But one of the | 00:42:13 | |
things we found in many cities is during COVID the number of remote workers went up a lot. | 00:42:18 | |
And we have opportunities for local artists and craftspeople. | 00:42:28 | |
That seems to be a theme that we're hearing. | 00:42:34 | |
Again and again. Great. | 00:42:37 | |
Yes. And we also have small businesses with good support. | 00:42:40 | |
I would be interested to know. | 00:42:47 | |
The author of that comment, if you could drop in the Q&A what kind of support you think small businesses need, I think that would | 00:42:50 | |
be very beneficial to us in understanding how to shape this plan. So if you feel like dropping more detail about that comment into | 00:42:55 | |
the into the Q&A, please do. | 00:43:01 | |
All right. | 00:43:08 | |
And that's all the the answers we received for that question. So we're ready to move on. | 00:43:10 | |
We're going to #8. | 00:43:16 | |
Should there be more? So this is an important question. | 00:43:23 | |
We've talked to a number of people about this. | 00:43:27 | |
Should there be more business or activity at the beach? | 00:43:30 | |
The beach is beautiful. | 00:43:34 | |
A lot of people use it for walking and recreation and. | 00:43:37 | |
Basically just mental health. | 00:43:41 | |
There is one restaurant there. | 00:43:44 | |
There have been a variety of suggestions over the years about what? | 00:43:47 | |
What else might go there? | 00:43:53 | |
And so a question I think we have is. | 00:43:55 | |
Should there be more businesses or activity at the beach and? | 00:43:58 | |
If your answer is yes or yes, maybe or yes depending on what it is. | 00:44:03 | |
It would be great if you could kind of specify what kind of activity or what kind of businesses you think would be most beneficial | 00:44:08 | |
at the beach. | 00:44:12 | |
So let's wait a few minutes and see what happens there. | 00:44:17 | |
See what we get. | 00:44:21 | |
Again, I'll leave it the beaches. | 00:44:46 | |
An incredibly important part of Port Wenimi. | 00:44:49 | |
It's important to us to understand what the options are. | 00:44:54 | |
And how to forge consensus about what, if anything else should should, should be there and how that plays into the economic. | 00:44:58 | |
Future of the city so. | 00:45:07 | |
I'll I'll let Laura let us know when there's. | 00:45:09 | |
When we're moving along on this one. | 00:45:14 | |
Thank you, Bill. The answers are slowly coming in for this one, so let's give everyone. | 00:45:18 | |
This is a big question, so don't feel hesitant to take a extra minute or two and articulate your answer. | 00:45:24 | |
In a very careful way. | 00:45:32 | |
And if you and again. | 00:45:51 | |
If you have a particular. | 00:45:53 | |
Opinion about this that you either don't want to share here in the poll, or that you want to amplify. Drop something in the chat | 00:45:57 | |
or bring it up in the subsequent Q&A conversation. We'd love to hear more detail. A lot of in fact, for about a lot of these | 00:46:03 | |
answers. If you are interested in in sharing more detail, we would love to. | 00:46:09 | |
We would love to hear it. | 00:46:15 | |
All right, we have some answers coming in. | 00:46:21 | |
So I'll keep it open for about 30 seconds and then I'll end the pulling share results. | 00:46:24 | |
Great. | 00:46:31 | |
All right, I'm doing the pull right now. | 00:46:51 | |
Sharing results. | 00:46:55 | |
All right, so. | 00:47:00 | |
One of the answers is at least the retail store that carries Winnie Beach souvenirs like drinks sunscreens. | 00:47:02 | |
Brand Winimi Beach OK. | 00:47:11 | |
Yes, we also have a coffee, tea, juice stand in places for four to five St. vendors that serve a variety of street food, | 00:47:14 | |
refreshments, bike rentals. | 00:47:19 | |
And our last answer is yes, absolutely this is. | 00:47:27 | |
The draw to Ventura County. We have the largest beach in Ventura County all the way to Santa Monica. I mentioned some ideas in the | 00:47:31 | |
QA. It's a huge, maybe the biggest attraction. | 00:47:36 | |
So I can I have that? | 00:47:42 | |
Open up in the QA right now so we can read from there. | 00:47:44 | |
So it says I think for the beach having a blue handicap ramp on the beach between the fire pits. | 00:47:48 | |
With the leg to each fire pit and down to the water like Harbor Cove Beach. | 00:47:56 | |
They feel like it would draw and make it more all inclusive. | 00:48:03 | |
Also having gym tools like hanging rings, tightrope, climbing rope, pull up bars, etcetera would attract. | 00:48:08 | |
You know, gym users and people would do a lot of. | 00:48:16 | |
Social media in the location. | 00:48:21 | |
Also, volleyball. Volleyball courts get a lot of schools. | 00:48:25 | |
To attend we have. | 00:48:31 | |
Farmers markets. | 00:48:34 | |
Also Dogs on beach. | 00:48:37 | |
There seems to be an understanding that money is used to to keep them off, but dogs are important for mental health and would be | 00:48:39 | |
important to you know. | 00:48:44 | |
Be able to have them on the beach. | 00:48:49 | |
And also maybe just from peer to port, more free parking. | 00:48:53 | |
OK. | 00:48:58 | |
All right. I think we can probably go on to the last question, right? | 00:49:01 | |
Yes, we can do that. I do want to point out that we have someone who agreed that places to buy Port Manini Beach branded merch | 00:49:06 | |
would be great and disabled ramps and exercise stations would be great as well. | 00:49:12 | |
All right. Thanks. | 00:49:20 | |
So the last question. | 00:49:21 | |
Is what events. | 00:49:24 | |
Would be most successful in the city of Port Hueneme. | 00:49:27 | |
One of the things that many that help many cities with economic growth is to have special events of a wide variety of kinds that. | 00:49:30 | |
Allows people in the community to experience things and also frankly, spend money on things that ordinarily are not available in | 00:49:43 | |
the city. They also draw people from other locations. We've seen some. | 00:49:50 | |
We've seen some pretty good examples in port menemia in the last two years. I think at the very beginning when Tony was talking, | 00:49:58 | |
we saw a slide that showed the recent. | 00:50:02 | |
Running race for the benefit of of of of heart issues that might be an example. So what events do you think would be most | 00:50:09 | |
successful in the city of Port Hueneme? A really important question as we try to figure out a. | 00:50:17 | |
How best to shape this economic development plan for the future? | 00:50:26 | |
So again, please take your time to type in your answers and after this we will go to AQ and A and I think we'll be you'll be able. | 00:50:33 | |
Basically, raise your hand after this question. I think I'm going to let Laura Turner turn over to Laura to explain what the | 00:50:44 | |
format for the next part of this workshop is going to be. Right, Laura? | 00:50:50 | |
I think you're muted. | 00:50:58 | |
Yes, we'll go over the instructions once we get to that point. | 00:51:00 | |
All right, but in the meantime, please take your time in answering this question if if you're interested in doing so. | 00:51:04 | |
But so far this feedback's been great. | 00:51:30 | |
It's really helped us understand the community a lot better, as I said, than we've seen in the past then we were able to. | 00:51:32 | |
Ellen and I have been to Port Menemi 2-3 times during the course of this project. | 00:51:39 | |
We've talked to a lot of people, but this is this is really rich feedback that's that's helping us a lot. | 00:51:44 | |
So I'll let Laura let us know when. | 00:51:58 | |
We're getting close to a good time to close the this particular final poll question. | 00:52:04 | |
Yes, let's give it a few seconds, I think. | 00:52:11 | |
30 seconds and we can closeout. I see the answers coming in. | 00:52:14 | |
Good. Great. | 00:52:17 | |
All right. I would be ending the pool right now. | 00:52:58 | |
All right, so. | 00:53:07 | |
They're great answers. By the way. We have expanding Wenimi Beach Festival. | 00:53:09 | |
Adding programs like the 5K run, slash, walk, three on three basketball. | 00:53:15 | |
We also have someone who mentioned I only moved back to Ventura County. | 00:53:24 | |
Last September and my family members enjoyed the Banana Festival, Surf Kite Festival, the Dog Parade. | 00:53:29 | |
We also have all of our outdoor events like the Banana Festival. | 00:53:39 | |
Concerts at the beach. Movie Night at the Beach. Farmers Markets. | 00:53:43 | |
All right, then. That's all we have for pool #9. | 00:53:53 | |
All right. So that was a really great exercise. Thank you, Laura, for walking us through that. | 00:53:56 | |
If you can. | 00:54:02 | |
Guide us to the instructions, Laura of the. | 00:54:05 | |
Section of this next that I see we have some comments in the Q&A but but we're going to. | 00:54:09 | |
Go back to. | 00:54:18 | |
Umm. | 00:54:22 | |
Yes, Thank you, Bill. So now we'll get started with the Q&A segment of the meeting. So if you're interested in participating, you | 00:54:25 | |
can do so by submitting your question through the Q&A function. I've seen that some of you have already been utilizing it, so you | 00:54:30 | |
can continue submitting questions through there. For the folks who have been identified the Q&A function, it's at the bottom part | 00:54:36 | |
of our screen. | 00:54:41 | |
Also, another way to participate is if you'd like to provide a verbal comment or a verbal question. You can also do that by | 00:54:47 | |
raising your hand, and then we'll call on your name and allow you to unmute your microphone. | 00:54:53 | |
You know, Please note that we have will have Will Berry, we have the questions coming in through the Q&A and they raised hands. So | 00:55:00 | |
we'll try to alternate to make sure you know we we cover everyone. | 00:55:05 | |
Alright. | 00:55:11 | |
So, so we'd love to have a conversation with you now now that we've gone through the polling questions which which is as Laura | 00:55:14 | |
said, the answers were really great. | 00:55:18 | |
And very helpful to us. | 00:55:23 | |
All right. Well, people are raising their hand or providing their, their questions in the future. We do have someone in the Q&A | 00:55:29 | |
that has added that they feel like it would be. | 00:55:35 | |
Good to have social media account called Visit Port Hueneme, similar to the ones from Visit Camarillo and visit Oxnard. | 00:55:41 | |
And visit Ventura. | 00:55:50 | |
Yes, I, yes, I think that's a very good point. | 00:55:52 | |
Some of those other larger cities have active visitor bureaus. | 00:55:57 | |
That probably manage those social media accounts. | 00:56:02 | |
Port Renee is much smaller, probably doesn't do that. | 00:56:05 | |
But probably has a harder that'd be a harder time doing that. | 00:56:09 | |
But that's definitely a good. | 00:56:13 | |
A good. | 00:56:16 | |
A good idea, and I'm glad that you brought it up. | 00:56:19 | |
And again. | 00:56:23 | |
Feel free. This is a small group. We would love to have a conversation with you if you are if you're interested in in. | 00:56:25 | |
Just raise your hand. | 00:56:35 | |
Or otherwise let Laura know maybe in the Q&A that you'd like to speak. | 00:56:37 | |
And I would again I would love to have. | 00:56:47 | |
A little more detail if you are. | 00:56:51 | |
For those of you who who made comments in the polling, if there was, if there was something in the. | 00:56:54 | |
Hole that you didn't you wanted to provide us with more detail about, Please do so. | 00:57:00 | |
Either in the Q&A or by raising your hand. | 00:57:07 | |
OK. | 00:57:10 | |
All right. I don't see any raised hands at the moment, ma'am. | 00:57:14 | |
Again, I'll go over the instructions again You there's a click, there's a raise hand button. | 00:57:18 | |
That you can click and that'll show us on our end. | 00:57:25 | |
That you would like to speak. So once we see that pop up on our end, we'll call your name and then allow you to unmute yourself. | 00:57:29 | |
So we'll give that a couple more minutes. | 00:57:38 | |
To see if to see if anybody wants to comment on the Q&A part of the. | 00:57:41 | |
Of the. | 00:57:46 | |
Segment. And then there's a few other things we'll say about the process. | 00:57:48 | |
And other opportunities to participate. | 00:57:52 | |
Once we're once we're done with the rest of the of the of the meeting, right, Right, Laura? | 00:57:56 | |
Yeah. | 00:58:02 | |
We really appreciate all of you taking the time tonight. I know there's a lot of, there's always a lot of competition for your | 00:58:09 | |
time. | 00:58:13 | |
There's a lot going on. | 00:58:17 | |
In the world right now to pay attention to. | 00:58:19 | |
And. | 00:58:22 | |
You can always be hard to carve out the time, so we really appreciate your. | 00:58:25 | |
You're doing this? | 00:58:29 | |
If we I'm thinking Laura, we give it another minute or two. | 00:58:31 | |
And if if if nobody wants to raise their hand, then we can. | 00:58:36 | |
Move on to a couple of other things we want to say about the process and other ways to participate in. | 00:58:41 | |
Sounds like a plan. | 00:58:52 | |
And again, Ariana does a great job of. | 00:58:55 | |
Of putting together these meetings. | 00:58:59 | |
And and I have to say, Laura and Adam, you know, as you know, I have worked. | 00:59:03 | |
Many years with Ariano, but not for a while. | 00:59:08 | |
And this, this, these technological advances that you that you brought to the table are really great. They're they're really quite | 00:59:11 | |
wonderful. So thanks for putting the effort in. | 00:59:16 | |
Thank you and thank you everyone for participating as well. | 00:59:23 | |
You've got some really great answers and I'm glad. | 00:59:28 | |
We got to work it out. Yeah, we were. We got some really great answers. Let's let's give it till 7. Laura, I think it's that's one | 00:59:31 | |
or two minutes from now. | 00:59:36 | |
And then we can. | 00:59:41 | |
Move on to a couple of other comments about the process. | 00:59:46 | |
Going. | 00:59:51 | |
Now to participate. | 00:59:54 | |
OK. | 01:00:03 | |
Laura, did you want to talk about the survey? | 01:00:09 | |
Yes, absolutely. So we do have a survey right now that is live. | 01:00:15 | |
And essentially we just like to know similar to the meeting today on how like what could we do really to improve port winning and | 01:00:21 | |
in terms of tourism, in terms of business. So I will be dropping the link to the survey in the chat. | 01:00:30 | |
Feel free to look at it, participated in it, if you'd like to also share it with your colleagues, your family and friends to | 01:00:41 | |
participate. We really encourage that. We want to make sure that you know, we get. | 01:00:47 | |
A lot of feedback from you all. At the end of the day you know this is your home, this is where you you work and you operate on a | 01:00:53 | |
day-to-day basis. So we want to make sure that we have a good variety and feedback. So I will be dropping that in the chat right | 01:00:57 | |
now. | 01:01:02 | |
All right, there's the survey in the chat. | 01:01:11 | |
If you want just. | 01:01:14 | |
That's her, that grab, that survey that can you get and for those for if somebody wants to tell others about the survey. | 01:01:18 | |
You can get can you get to it through the city website or. | 01:01:28 | |
If you don't have the URL, how do you how do you get to it? | 01:01:33 | |
We will be posting it on the city website. I know there's we will be promoting it via the social media as well. So you'll be | 01:01:38 | |
seeing that coming through. So feel free to stay connected throughout the different communications channels that we have shared. | 01:01:44 | |
On screen we have the city website. | 01:01:49 | |
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. By the way, YouTube will have uploaded the the video of today as well. So if you have any | 01:01:55 | |
colleagues, family and friends that weren't able to join us today, the video of today's meeting will be uploaded there. | 01:02:02 | |
And and really if you or anybody you know has any comments about? | 01:02:10 | |
The future economic direction. | 01:02:16 | |
Use any of these portals, right? Any of these channels on Facebook, Instagram, whatever. | 01:02:20 | |
You know, on Instagram, send us a picture of of the thing that you like the most, That kind of thing. | 01:02:27 | |
So a little bit about the steps going forward. | 01:02:33 | |
We have been doing interviews with economic stakeholders in town. | 01:02:40 | |
We are doing a lot of data analysis to understand the economic conditions in Port Wenimi. | 01:02:46 | |
We are talking to a lot of business owners and others. | 01:02:56 | |
And what we'll be doing over the next few weeks is beginning to shape what the beginnings of what might look like our | 01:02:59 | |
recommendations. | 01:03:03 | |
And in the middle of May we're going to have an in person workshop in Port Munimi and Laura Adam can remind me of the date, it's | 01:03:08 | |
it's mid-May as I recall. | 01:03:13 | |
Or Ellen, do you, if you recall. | 01:03:19 | |
And it will be. | 01:03:22 | |
Do we? Do we remember where it's going to be? | 01:03:24 | |
Or that we haven't figured that out yet. | 01:03:27 | |
It will be Thursday, May 16th. I don't think we have a specific location yet. We're still working on that. | 01:03:30 | |
So stay tuned. So, so we will be talking to more people and running the survey. | 01:03:38 | |
And Lauren, Adam, I believe we're running the survey. | 01:03:45 | |
At least to the end of April, if not beyond right. So that survey will be out there for a month or more. | 01:03:50 | |
In mid-May, May 16th, when we have a work, a workshop which will be at some public venue in port winning. We haven't figured out | 01:03:59 | |
where yet. | 01:04:02 | |
Probably at that point we will have, we will have some preliminary recommendations we're going to want to bounce off of you and | 01:04:06 | |
others. | 01:04:10 | |
Who? | 01:04:15 | |
Who are active in the Port Munimi community and then after that we will craft our final draft. | 01:04:18 | |
Economic development plan, which I believe we are going to be scheduled to bring to the City Council in July so that they can, as | 01:04:25 | |
you probably know the City Council goes dark in August. So it we're hoping that we will bring the final product to the City | 01:04:31 | |
Council in July so they can adopt it then and then the city can move forward to try to improve both quality of life and economic | 01:04:37 | |
conditions in in Port Winima in a way that really has they've been unable to do before. So I think that's probably about all we | 01:04:43 | |
have for tonight, Laura. | 01:04:50 | |
Right. | 01:04:56 | |
That's correct, Bill. And again, I want to thank you for coming out tonight. I know it's it's very difficult to break away. | 01:04:58 | |
I want to thank Aria. I want to thank Ariana for setting all this up. | 01:05:06 | |
And again. | 01:05:10 | |
Please feel free to contact us in through any of these channels if you have a question. If you have a comment, if you want to talk | 01:05:12 | |
to us, just please let us know. So thanks again for joining us tonight and and as Laura said, this video will be up on YouTube | 01:05:17 | |
soon. | 01:05:22 | |
And so. So if if any of your friends or family want to think about those polling questions, you can't quite remember them all, I | 01:05:28 | |
would just watch the video, right? | 01:05:32 | |
So again, thanks very much for being with us tonight and we look forward to continuing to have this conversation with you and | 01:05:39 | |
everyone else in port menemia over the next few months about the economic future of the city. | 01:05:44 | |
Thanks. | 01:05:51 |