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Meeting Minutes: 3/5/2018

Updates:

• Next meeting: April 9th 9:30 am

• Housing

  • Housing Needs Assessment – approved

  • Housing group do kick-off meeting with housing champions – April

    • who wants to be a part of it

  • Housing Authority looking to make Housing Board through County Board

    • forming Housing advisory board

    • final decision making goes to board, but advisory group has more freedom

    • strategic planning

    • Megan Lavine Grant Foundation: Freeport McMoRan

      • housing bridging gap funding grant - $45,000, matched=$90,000

      • need representatives from municipalities on committee

      • through Grand Foundation?

• Tourism Diversification

  • Create Here business contest – focused on Granby first

  • Developing a Local Products Catalogue

• Wood Products

  • relationship between the industry businesses and the NF

  • IFA – Colorado Timber association

    • meetings for Medicine Bow and Route County

    • roads and accessibility

  • Businesses have a hard time connecting with the people who make decisions

  • Labor: if had enough labor (housing an issue) could have second shift now

    • paid well, but hard to get employees, cannot attract because of cost of living

  • Sell Products: locally is good but 90% of products go out of county

  • Zoning: County has changed some rules to make it easier to work

  • Loggers are aging – need to attract young people into the industry

    • Program in Maine: partner with high schools and community colleges to train young loggers – Need partners

• Higher education

  • Professional development training at Devil's Thumb and at Snow Mountain Ranch

  • Grand County Builders Association – looking at future workforce needs, certifications, degrees, etc.

  • Career Fair tomorrow in Granby and Kremling this week

    • Career Exploration – how to get there, education and experience is needed

    • Surveys with kids to see what they are interested in for future careers

    • Reach out to businesses – provide internship possibilities

• Anchor Businesses/Human Resources:

  • Career and Job Fair 4:30-7:00 pm at Snow Mountain Ranch

    • Spring and Fall

    • Remain consistent with 

  • Website: Sept. goal, resources required

    • Housing

    • Positions available

    • summer work 

  • Shoulder season work

• Hirshue:

  • Employment data by month:

    • months April to August opportunity to share employees

    • opportunity to partner morning shift and evening shift to combine for a full-time position 

    • DiAnn: small businesses are requesting to be involved now

      • Request for trainings on Workman's Comp., etc.

Governance:

• Challenges: Do you have any?  How are you working together?

  • HR group: met once for two hours between the last EDA meeting; important to add smaller work group was very helpful

    • will continue to meet every 2-3 weeks – website main goal 

    • Athena: informal chair

    • Data platform was complicated, are using a more simple form

    • how to bring in more organizations? 

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      • Add Safeway, City Market, plus other employers

  • Housing:

    • focused on study underway will then give direction

    • will then have more committee meetings

    • meeting in large groups very helpful for bridging gaps: housing met with YMCA for land potentials for building, Scott with higher ed

    • Zoning: Changing code to allow for accessory dwellings and cottage home program to have pre-approved architecture plans for long-term housing

  • Lumber/Timber:

    • meeting on accessibility of timber to create front to talk directly to forest service to move forward (national and district level)

    • create workforce housing: McCall housing program to 

    • DiAnn: Denise to meet with 5 forest service members 

  • Tourism:

    • Challenge: available resources in the towns to have county-wide projects

    • met with sub-committee, no game plan

  • General Governance:

    • how to have flexibility yet keep the group moving forward

  • Report back to DiAnn to inform the county commissioners, etc.

Breakout Meetings:

• General:

  • What are goals for 2018, 3 years, 5 years

  • Google groups and database for project management, or Asana will also be set-up

• Wood Products:

  • Diversified products:

    • Products: CSU/State forest service have already done some work – partner with them and existing channels (High Country Forest Collaborative-HCFC)

    • Chipping operation – model after Summit County collaboration (NWCOG)

  • Stewards of the forests: FS says to be careful with verbiage.  

    • Private land and public land stewards – education

  • Accessibility to forests – roads for logging trucks, feds have cut funding for accessibility – can counties fund?

  • Goals:

    • Core Team for committee with meeting before April 9 with existing

    • Tour chipping in Summit, connect with HCFC, CSU Ext.,BLM, 

    • Succession and education for future loggers, woodworkers

Marketing/Web Portal: Ryan Wilson

• Goals:

  • themes:

    • collaboration: workforce development/housing/lifestyle/local products

    • measuring success 

    • “Grand” Brand

  • Vehicles: advertising, press release, newsletters, GFB Website, FB, Radio, Anchor Vehicles

  • Challenges:

    • Giving Businesses a voice: provide timely response

    • No advertising budget: everyone provide one ad a year?

    • What is the Grand Story? Live/Work/Play? Elevate yourself?

  • Thoughts:

    • One idea to feature

    • What makes us different? - hard workers/opportunities available

    • What is our story in one word?

• Web Portal

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  • Target market: employees, manufacturing, 

  • General needs:

    • how do we send people to this portal?

    • Posting standards, content and images, approval management

  • Job Postings:

  • Job Forum – Discussion forum

  • Housing Postings 

  • Product catalogue

  • Tasks:

    • wireframe and outline functionality

    • promote the use of web portal

    • create functional requirements for housing and job searching

    • develop analytic tools – measure progress

    • build toolkits that are available for different targets

    • Similar web portals:

      • https://westerncoloradoliving.com Delta 

      • Montrose http://www.montrose.org 

      • Talent FOUND for Colorado

End meeting at 12:00