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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-05-20 Prei~ ~e E IDIAN CITY OF MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL PRE-COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. City Council Chambers 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho `Although the City of Meridian no longer requires sworn testimony, all presentations before the Mayor and City Council are expected to be truthful and honest to best of the ability of the presenter." 1. Roll-call Attendance: David Zaremba Joe Borton Charlie Rountree Keith Bird Mayor Tammy de Weerd 2. Adoption of the Agenda: 3. Economic Excellence from Phil Stiffler with AspireOn: Meridian City Council Pre-Council Meeting Agenda -May 20, 2008 Page 1 of 1 All materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian. Anyone desiring accommodation for disabilities related to documents and/or hearing, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 888-4433 at least 48 hours prior to the public meeting. 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' ~ ~ rr ~, ' ~ ~ f ~', t i ~ t i j i r i ~ ~ ~ ~ e I J ~ 1 y ~1 , k -I ~ ~ 1~ ~ k i ~ ~ ; ~ ;~}- ~, ~ `I ~ ~ ~ ti ~ ~ l ~ .' i t~ i'I ~I ~ .~ 1 ~' ~~ ~ ~ 1 c F ! ~ ~ r ~ f i ~ ;~ s { t 3 . , gr i t l , ~ ; ,. . , . x r ~ :i ,~ i :~ x 5 r ~ l ~ 3 ~ 7 F • • Meridian City Pre-Council Meeting May 20, 2008 A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2008, by President Charlie Rountree. Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Charlie Rountree, Keith Bird, Joe Borton, and David Zaremba. Others Present: Ted Baird, Jaycee Holman, Anna Canning. Item 1: Roll-call Attendance: Roll call. X David Zaremba X Joe Borton X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird X Mayor Tammy de Weerd Rountree: All right. I will open the Meridian Pre-Council meeting, Tuesday May 20th, at 6:30. Roll call attendance, please. Item 2: Adoption of the Agenda; Rountree: Next item on the agenda is to adopt the agenda. Bird: Mr. President? Rountree: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we adopt the agenda as published. Borton: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda. All those in favor? Motion passes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 3: Economic Excellence from Phil Stiffler with AspireOn: Rountree: Next item on the agenda is Economic Excellent report from Phil Stiffler. Phil, welcome. StifFler: Thank you. Rountree: As always. ~, ,. 1 ' ~~ t y 3 ~ ~ h 1 ~; ~ , ! , -f~ ~ ~ ~ j 7 ~ ; ~ 1 ~ ~ ~ ~t 'i ~ ~' f ` ~ d i ~~i ~ '~ t f ~ ' f .'t Y'. ~, _ ~ : f j 1 ~ p i ve i II ~ .i 7~ 4r N ` ,~ s ~~ 1 I ~~~~~ 5 ~4 t( ~ I t~t= ;i t { ~ 1 1 1i _ `L1 i I I ~ ~ ~ 1 / ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ 5 } ( i ~ ~I ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a + i ~ ~ . ~ i ' ~ ~ ,j~ ;~ ~ r F ~. ~ ~ ~ f ~' t i ~i ` ~f("~ (f to ~~ ~ j~ ~ 'k~i #` ~:~ i } ~~} ~ ~ , Meridian City Council -Pre-Council Mee'i9'ng May 20, 2008 Page 2 of 11 Stiffler: President Rountree. Rountree: Bearer of good news I hope. StifFler: Yes. Rountree: All right. StifFler: President Rountree and Madam Mayor and Councilmen, I will say that Josh is with me, too, so I'm not just here alone. Though I recognize that it is a team and it's -- some of the members of the team are not here, but it also has to do with understanding I guess our opportunity to be able to tell you a little bit of the story which you're such an instrumental part of, but to understand a little bit of kind of the update of where we are today and I guess a little bit where we are at, where we are going and what do we need to do get there. And I have to tell you in the last few weeks I have gotten a lot of input from a lot of the citizen stake holders about what we need to do to get there. So, I will get a chance to share that with you. In your packets I will mention to you that there is -- on the right-hand side of the packet I gave you there a copy, which I'm not going to go through in detail, I will answer any questions, which is actually kind of our overall work plan that actually goes from -- goes from present all the way through to October. You will see in that work plan -- you see the five strategic focus areas that we have identified for economic excellence, which you saw in the past. But you will also see in each one of those you're going to see the strategies and the objectives, plus the milestones and the deadlines, which have actually been worked out through the Mayor's ofFice in cooperation with looking at where we want to get to achieve those things for the city. So, I did give you a copy of the complete work plan, which I will be glad to answer questions on after I have kind of finished the presentation. What I would say is is that you're well aware of -- I want to, actually, identify what we think to be your -- our collaborative team approach to Economic Excellence for the city. I think the challenges of the present economic times are part of those things that why we get a lot of the input that I think I do get on a routine basis. Sometimes on a daily basis. And I will say that's very constructive and very helpful and it's an opportunity for me to share that with you. So, first of all, as we see it there, the Built For Business, Designed For Living, is -- I would say that what I wanted to do is I wanted to outline -- and I have picked just ten kind of what I call milestones or objectives. In your packet you will find Economic Excellence milestones from 2007 through a 2008 update. I have only picked ten of those and you will see those are kind of highlighted in blue, but I wanted to speak to those to you as examples. In the first challenge it was said how do we look at branding the identity for the Meridian and I will say that was part of really branding the identity of truly meaning what it is, Built For Business and Designed For Living. And I think that our citizens and the stake holders that we continue to see want to understand that this is a place to actually live, work, and play. I would note that if you probably went out and you saw the new signs which are at Bridgetower, as an example, you will see that our, quote, branding identity is now being used by a lot of our developments. If you go to Gramercy you're going to see live, work, and play. You're going to see them part of the new marketing things that are going to come out of the health sciences corridor, you're Meridian City Council -Pre-Council MeeTing • May 20, 2008 Page 3 of 11 going to start seeing a centralized theme that the people want to maintain and be part of as a partners with us. I think that branding identity is something we need to continue to built on, but I guess it is also a reflection of Council, it's a reflection of leadership, and I say leadership throughout the city, because that branding identity is supported by the services that the staff and that you as Council as -- provide that leadership and I think that's having to do with the identity, too, that we do -- Anna's sitting over there and she knows by participation that we actually do -- we do actually walk the talk with regard to the actions we take when we look at entities coming here and whether it's for development or businesses and what happens and being able to respond. to that. So, the branding identity is one that actually we have now had the opportunity to actually share in that in the context of at one point in time Boise valley has related to it, I guess what I would say is I was asked and challenged to say how do I leverage our relationships on a regional basis, whether it's with BVEP, how do I still get the identity and how do my -- who do we as a team representing the city make sure that -- that Meridian is not lost in that Boise valley, but, instead, that we want to show we are the leadership of it. And I feel very comfortable in the fact. that we now have -- and you're going to see -- we continue to see where we have those opportunities for existing Meridian businesses to be recognized and to understand, actually, how they play such an important part of the overall economy. The next one I picked was the collaborative partnership with stake holders for the health sciences tech corridor. I think about -- of the last time that we talked at any major session we were still talking about what was going to happen with ISU and I think that one of the components of being able to identify that corridor and looking at it saying what does that really represent as an infrastructure asset that we have to build off of, which gets back to the major target of creating value added jobs and the kind of economic sustainability that we need for those valued jobs. That comdor, with the core pieces that we have there -- and we know some of those core players right now. We have the hospitals. We have the Blue Cross. And when I say hospitals, I mean an advanced health care in addition to St. Luke's. I look at the fact that we have major -- major stake holders there still within the technology side, whether it's Crucial Technology -- obviously, as you know, we now have DMB over Dennis Baker's new corporate headquarters there sitting in the center of that piece of property that's part of that whole corridor. What we want to have is that synergistic type of ability to say here is that complimentary consistency that can be there, but we have all the players wanting to be part of that and it is a context that they want to say their success is our success. Your success is our success. And to the point that now we have them wanting to look at that kind of joint marketing effort every time we go to the table. And, in essence, that will be I guess a primary focus on why I have it there, because I think it's one of our primary focuses to those value added jobs. The third piece I did just is just the positive reinforcement of new and expanding businesses. I think that what we understand is -- and we use examples that -- that the contacts and the important part is that we recognize not only the new businesses that are coming into our area -- and I would mention is that we have -- and I think it's a relationship of the -- we are centrally located, but we have arecognition -- it's almost to the point -- sometimes I have taken people out of Boise on a tour of Meridian -- and I know this may sound ridiculous, but they have not really seen Meridian. It's kind of like I take them -- I mean I took one of the BVEP representatives, took them on a drive and Meridian City Council -Pre-Council Mee~"ing May 20, 2008 Page 4 of 11 they kind of said, wow, I didn't know that. It's not just somebody that's in the area, out of the area. The last Economic Excellence breakfast that was sponsored -- Charlie -- the president -- President Rountree was there -- is that it was interesting that was sponsored -- sponsored by Thornton Oliver Keller and Dennis Baker on the Pinebridge development. Within three days after that breakfast they had four -- four actual showings of Dennis' building and they have leased up two of the spaces to people that didn't even know that it was going to be there or was around. And so it's the -- the identity is not only that we are looking outward, but we are looking at what would actually could happen within that. We are continuing to see -- and some of you are aware of those -- we are still seeing that movement, whether it's ESI moving its corporate headquarters to Portico, whether it bodybuilding.com coming in to Silverstone. Power Engineers is a new one that's going to be coming. And there is an announcement that will be out about another acquisition that they are making that's a technology company that we are not -- I am not free to actually speak to right now. But we are going to continue to look at that and the expanding business side -- I still think one of the ones and one of the greatest spokesmen that we have had -- and he's had a chance to get national press -- is in the Blackhawk Manufacturing one. I think I've related this to some of you. You know, when they started back they had five jobs. They now have 80. They have now established that as a western regional distribution center and they are going to grow to 200 jobs and those are manufacturing jobs, they are not nine dollars an hour, it averages 14 to 15 dollars an hour, plus benefits. They have a potential of making anywhere from 18 to 20 dollars an hour. And they are a great example of some of the things that we would like to see for that kind of exposure. We have somebody who is a spokesman in that regard. The Economic Excellence series with the chamber, for those of the Council that have had an opportunity to participate, that was -- that was a task that was looked at how we could work effectively with the chamber to really say let's set the stage what we really mean by Economic Excellence to the business community. And it means it isn't -- and I have always steered away from that economic development word just in itself, because the version our of Economic Excellence is sustaining and helping the businesses here to grow and go forward. It isn't just chasing big rainbows someplace, that's looking at the core businesses that we really want. As you're aware, the first Economic Excellence series, to give you an idea, I think we had 120 people. The last one we had 160. This next week on the 29th -- or, excuse me, on the 30th is the next Economic Excellence breakfast. That is going to be centered around the whole thing of, you know, Meridian why. Why is Meridian. What is it all about. The speakers that we are going to have there -- one of the key speakers is going to be the real estate expert for Porter Novelli out of Califomia at no cost to us, who is coming up here. I have already taken him around Meridian. He's the gentleman that will help push -- push marketing, looking at the idea of what kind of infrastructure and value we have. When I show him the Ten Mile plan and I take him to the developments that are here, he goes wow. You know, it's just amazing. And here is a guy that's written stuff on Califomia in the San Diego area to Arizona or whatever of looking at being able to demonstrate and show those are infrastructure assets that the City of Meridian has. Those -- also events I would say that I think has done a great job of getting collaborative kind of discussions. For those of you who have been about at it, usually it seems like they -- the people are there 20 Meridian City Council -Pre-Council Mee~Fig May 20, 2008 Page 5 of 11 minutes ahead and they are there for 45 minutes afterwards. And in this next one we are going to have we are offering to all the various developments -- they are going to have displays. It's like a little mini trade show. You're going to see Gramercy, you're going to see all those developments that are going to be there as part of that Economic Excellence series, in addition to businesses giving testimonials about why they are here. The Meridian businesses in the news. I guess I'm proud to say -- and you will see a list in there and it relates to it. We continue to be able to push those articles, which helps our -- I'm going to use Blackhawk as an example. They couldn't believe it when we got that national article. It was just more from persistence and follow up. Well, how does that relate? It relates back to jobs to us and it relates back to telling other companies that here is a place where somebody is prospering in what they are actually succeeding in doing. I think that the collaborative advertising efforts in Hemispheres was the first step, which, you know, as I think most of you know, basically, we raised 30,000 dollars from the combined businesses to run that ad. And I guess what I say is that that's part of support and the buzz and the communication and the commitment. I see more collaborative relationships coming on all the time where people say, Phil, what can we look at as far as joint marketing, whether it's in the health sciences technology corridor or whether it's related to looking at promoting Meridian in those areas, to the point we are now looking at getting invitations to say can we be part of a trade show with that businesses. That's someplace that can also lead us to the networking and the other businesses that they can see as potential growth here or expansion here that makes good sense. The developer relationship engagements -- as we are well aware, one of the things that has been very, very informative to me, beyond the fact that in the cases where, obviously, the developments are not just new developments that are coming in, but existing developments of being able to talk with those people about issues or concerns and those issues or concerns both related to what's actually happening today. I would have to tell you in the last two weeks I have talked to probably four or five of the major developers and the message that they are sending to me is one that you will see later on in my talk, they are saying, Phil, we got to go get value added jobs. We need jobs. We need jobs here in Meridian. They are very pleased to see some of the movement, but they are saying let's not chase the big ones, let's look at those businesses and let's look at finding every way and they want to be part of that. And they know that's how they actually look at their investment and the stake holder side of what they are doing. The other one is -- I felt it was very important to bring up Project Data. And as you know -- and I won't make references to the name as to confidentiality, but, actually, the Mayor has a copy of the Project data package that we have the opportunity to rush through and participate in. The reason I bring that up is somebody might say, geez, Phil, why did you bring that up. Some of the news said we didn't get it. Well, I can tell you I'm not -- I guess am I disappointed? Yeah, I was disappointed when I was on the telephone call that day. The Mayor didn't want to talk to me, you know, because Iwas -- I was not a real happy camper. However, I will say this to you. If there is anything that reinforced -- and I would sit here and say this, is that it reinforced a couple things. One, when a team of people come together -- and the compliment that we received, which was not meant in jest or anything else, we were told that the actual presentation that the City of Meridian and their representatives and the representative Anna sitting here, as well as Tom Bany and the people here -- I mean all Meridian City Council -Pre-Council MeeTing May 20, 2008 Page 6 of 11 the staff, in addition to the fact that we got Idaho Power to come to the table, we got the county commissioners to come to the table. We got the Tel-Com people to come to the table. And they were all a part of that package and we were told that -- from that entity that it was actually the best presentation they had seen in over five years on any city related to looking at why they wanted us. But I must tell you the thing that enticed them -- and the Council should be very proud of this -- was the Ten Mile plan. And I think it's very important to understand when we think about the growth, that Ten Mile plan, when you look at it on a national, regional basis, people look at that and they go, wow, couldn't -- you know, can we believe that that's really there. I can still remember when Anna went -- and she actually gave kind of the presentation and laid out with the people -- that they -- they understood it. They get it. They connect to it. And I only think that that represents kind of one of those other growth areas that we will see as that opportunity that that's asset that can be marketed to get the objectives that we want to get done as far as Economic Excellence long term to the citizens and the stake holders. The workforce development efforts, you have heard me talk a lot and some of you were at the last workshop. We talked a lot about work force development and the Economic Excellence breakfast. We had on the various -- various institutions there from ISU, to NNU, to the school district. The education and development of the workforce is going to be a key to the economic engine. It has to be. And we have a great school district and it goes on related to how does that pass on forward and we start talking about programs. If we have a health sciences education corridor without ISU, we don't have a big piece of stake in the ground that really relates to that. It's very difficult. The other institutions that are here and the continuing idea being able to provide that education component, is very significant to that workforce development. The advisory council to the Mayor that actually is being formed related to that professional development and looking at workforce, every site visit that the Mayor and I make with businesses I can tell you we hear topics, we hear transportation, but the other one we hear is related to workforce development, that connectivity of understanding their needs and being able to communicate and be there with them to talk about those challenges and looking at other alternatives that makes sense and those people want to be involved in it. When the Mayor and I were at bodybuilders.com they brought their whole management team into us and they sat down and talked about part of their challenges or what is going on and how can we connect and where can we connect that to them. They are an entity that an example -- they were looking at being able to attract and connect as to other entities because of the investment that Liberty Media put in there to 150 million dollars and now Ryan DeLuca is going to be one of our primary speakers at our Economic Excellence breakfast next week. And he wants to tell the story of why Meridian. So, with that I would tell you there are more details and I would be glad to answer any questions. I just wanted to pick out ten kind of -- ten of those components that speak a little bit to this sheet kind of on the update. Josh, go ahead. The rest of this presentation I'm going to give you here -- the reason I wanted to kind of use this and, then, come up with a summary of what I think are action items and the focus that needs to be there and to get your input on, is I would tell you I have had the opportunity to give this presentation from this point on. I gave it at Rotary the other day. I gave it at the BVEP quarterly meeting. I'm giving it at Key Bank senior management team -- or, excuse me -- Key Bank senior management team tomorrow. I'm giving it to the Department of Commerce Meridian City Council -Pre-Council Mee~i"ng May 20, 2008 Page 7 of 11 tomorrow. This is a presentation that I have been -- and I have to admit to you that some of it I got -- I'm getting asked to do it. And part of the thing that I really think -- and I will say this is -- Tammy was there and I will say this when I gave this at the BVEP quarterly meeting with all the investors, it's not an ego thing, I was proud -- they kind of applauded because it was the only -- I wasn't talking negative, I was talking about what we need to take action to do and was talking about that Meridian is taking more of an approach to saying let's be proactive. So, I have actually explained what we are doing to the business community and in a way they put a business model and say, okay, let's talk about that. What's that really mean. And they connect with this. They connect with it and they see how we are taking an asset and how we are looking at marketing that asset and what it represents to the value to the community with regard to what's going on. So, you will see on there -- I didn't just name ISU, I put education research campus. Well, the reality is you say, well, wait a minute, Phil, we haven't got a lot of research there today, but I can tell you that right now as of two weeks ago at the advisory board for the president of ISU, which I sit on and I headed their strategic planning meeting, is right now already to (unintelligible) Foundation and Skaggs after their 5.2 million dollars that they put up in the state -- state capital fund matched that other 5.2 for the pharmacy school there, they are now talking about what's the potential for up to 20 million dollars in other investment with regard to research. Now, is that going to come overnight? No. But, guess what, same package that I'm presenting, ISU and the president of ISU is also taking that same package about the commitment that the City of Meridian has done that helps to secure where we want to talk about with the identifying those related research companies. So, as you will see, the key to this to me -- it isn't just the City of Meridian selling this -- as you will probably note, I could actually bring into you the pamphlets, you will now see the health sciences court, the health sciences technology corridor referenced in ISU's new marketing materials. You're going to see it in Portico as marketing materials. You're going to see it in Pinebridge's marketing materials and what it is -- it is the idea of keeping that centralized theme and telling our story that's consistent and they are excited about that. Also, with part of the marketing side of that I now attend the meetings. We have joint marketing meetings with either the realtors or the developers looking at -- saying, okay, let's make sure we are on the same consistent page and looking at doing that marketing. Scott Perrin and Associates has actually donated to ISU to write part of their strategic marketing plan that links exactly into our overall plan. Go ahead, Josh. The next one that I -- actually that Iwanted -- I want to make sure that this is my point I have said earlier about where people -- sometimes we think they understand about the Ten Mile plan, well, it's kind of this is just a summary page, it allows me to talk about it and, obviously, with the Ten Mile interchange and the future of what goes on and after seeing some of the -- after being able to expose this, is that I get a chance to talk about Ten Mile. The Ten Mile -- and in being able to talk about what that really represents and I think the excitement is not just on the localized level, but, again, that starts to tell the story, because in a way that person starts to think about somebody else they network with, whether it's a supplier or whether it a related entity, that they start to understand the infrastructure that we have there. So, when I talk about the Economic Excellence team, I would have to say to you it starts right at the group I'm facing, it's the Mayor, the Council, and the city leadership, which -- which the idea is when we really look at it, we have got to be consistent and aligned as a team. Meridian Ciry Council -Pre-Council Meeting • May 20, 2008 Page 8 of 11 Right now that alliance of that team is the people who are also the developers and the stake holders that own the dirt and are trying to look at it and, guess what, they want to push in the excitement of saying I guess the complimentary side that we are making the effort to try to coordinate that effort and be aligned to where we want to go. The businesses and the chambers, the same thing. I think the contacts and what we are doing with each one of the businesses, I believe that -- I have feel very comfortable that I think -- I think our relationship with the chamber, both from the economic development committee, as well as the activities there, I think the communication and the coordination of that communication is enhanced and it has continued to be enhanced and that was one of the challenges that Iwas -- I was charged with and I feel that we have actually got that on a very cooperative effort. On the school district -- I should have moved -- and I should have moved college and universities, I could talk about the whole education component all up there together, but that Economic Excellence team -- and Itell you, I would say that Linda Clark or the representatives of the various colleges and universities couldn't be anymore helpful. Those of you who were at the last Economic Excellence workshop where you actually heard President Vailas talk the economic engine and what it is, I spent a whole day with him on the recent -- when he was over here. He's now talking about pulling together conferences and symposiums related to part of the nano technology and hosted them here in Meridian. And he wants to do the first one in the summer. The regional economic development partners, my -- as you are aware, I sit on the BVEP -- BVEP working group committee and I attend the other events and in cases where the Mayor requests for me when she may be in schedule, I also attend the business retention committee. I would say to you that what we have done is that we -- I feel that I always should be representing the City of Meridian, but in representing them in a collaborative participatory way, but I will say that I am not candid -- or I'm not -- I'm not bashful about representing our interests and what we see. makes sense or what does work. I would say that right now we have established that relationship, so that, yes, we have the ability to respond to those things and respond to items that are actually being presented to us, but, more importantly, we now have them on an approach that is -- they are now looking more at how do we do proactive target marketing. The establishment at the last quarterly meeting, I would say the feedback that came back from the investors there, you have done a great job of putting the Boise valley on the map. We have established some branding identity. We continue to get some of the national news, but now let's take that foundation that's been laid and let's tum it into actual direct targeted approaches to getting those businesses and those jobs here. So, I just kind of covered that leveraging. Targeting complimentary businesses. One of the things -- and, actually, this came up -- I won't say it wasn't my idea, but I sat down talking with one of the business owners and he said, Phil, you know, we are not only -- because I was asking him about supply chain people or other businesses he does business with. There is a local manufacturing company here on Franklin that I won't mention the name, because it has to do with some private information what they share with me, but they have, for example, a supplier who has 25 employees that sits in San Jose, California, and they send their people up there all the time and travel and he said the guy's complaining and I said, well, heck, you got to get -- let me talk to him. That's the kind of connection. But it really gets down to if we think about all the business people and the business people Meridian City Council -Pre-Council Mee~n 9 May 20, 2008 Page 9 of 11 that are moved here and are here and we ask each one of them to tell us a name of -- I don't care whether it's a relative, a friend, somebody they have dealt with at a trade show, whether it's a supplier, somebody they sell to, some component integrated part of what it is, those are contact names that gives us an upward kind of first step in talking with those people and we want to leverage that in every way possible. I think that the identifying expansion opportunities is that we want to make sure that -- we want to make sure that businesses -- the businesses that are there, we get a chance to make sure that we are helping them to facilitate that expansion. Quickly on the advisory council for ISU, just to give you an idea, I was able to be part of getting that all set up. We .had representatives from both hospitals, from RX Elite, from Jack Lindlay, to Ray Loughman, to David Sant of Merrill Lynch. We got 16 influential people throughout the whole valley that are sitting on that and the focus of that committee is to promote and support the Economic Excellence related to our part of the country right here related to ISU and what's going on. So, I guess my summary there is working -- everyone working together. Well, I -- when I gave this to BVEP I kind of said that's what I thought the goal objective of BVEP was and we want to continue to sustain that and move it forward. So, you guys are all very familiar, Council and -- you're all familiar with this, that one of the things when I get a chance to tell this story, I want to be able to tell the story about some of the projects and it's amazing, I have taken people to each one of those, like I said, and they go, wow, we didn't know that. I carry around a little box in the back of my car and Ihave -- I have all the portfolios for each one of the packets and it's kind of like the traveling salesman, let's talk about this one as we go by. So, education excellence equals economic excellence. Those of you who heard that, we looked at -- we look at workforce drives the economic engine. I mentioned that the Mayor's advisory council. ISU is now the anchor and they are there, they are not going away. Distance teaming opportunities, I will talk very quickly that I want to mention to you one of the primary concepts -- and it was made public by the president of ISU in our advisory council and it was not meant to be privy, there is an opportunity that one of the goals that ISU -- and they want to work directly with us on, is that they want to look at establishing -- I will put it this way: First of all, ISU is one of the oldest pharmacy schools in the United States. It's been in existence for one hundred years. One of the biggest issues today on a global basis, which the president of ISU has as an initiative and spent -- is that they are looking at how do we educate the rest of the world. There is pharmaceutical companies that want to dispense, but they do not have the training. They aren't pharmacies. They don't have the trained people. So, the president of ISU's quote is: Meridian, Idaho, needs to be the center of distance teaming to training pharmacists throughout the world. And that comes back to the idea of that being here as a center where the dollars and cents -- we export that knowledge and that teaming, the money comes back here on research and development and we have those other entities being part of it. NNU will be actually announcing -- they actually want to defer that to into the fall, part of their overall business development education programs in cooperation with the city. And I will summarize -- I won't go through this detail. It's going to go to the last page with time, but we are going to take the targeted industry approach and these are the areas that we think are part of those targeted industries and particularly when I say advanced the R&D and you see pharmaceutical, medicine, that ties right into, obviously, the health sciences comdor. At the same token, you're going to continue to see part of the other Meridian City Council -Pre-Council Meetin • 9 May 20, 2008 Page 10 of 11 technology in support of that in some of the research and development side of also some of the laboratory testing and some of the connectivity. For example, with the Urology Institute that sits over there, along with ISU, they already -- we have got them talking about cooperative programs and who wants to be able to do those clinical testing. Go ahead, Josh. So, this is -- this is not a slide that I'm actually using in the presentations, but I just wanted to give you my take -- I guess this is feedback that I have been getting from our stake holders and they say, Phil, we must be aggressive and proactive with the direct sales campaign, don't wait and depend on somebody else to do it. The primary goal was to generate sustaining value added jobs and where do they come from? New job development through new companies to the area, yes. Growth by supporting our expanding and emerging businesses -- I will mention, for example -- you may not -- you guys have actually approved -- are you familiar with VengaWorks. It's part of the Freedom Storage Group. They were approved part of a plan. They are sitting over off of Overland. That's going to be an emerging business center. Those are two technology guys out of the Silicon Valley that moved up here. One lives in -- lives up Sun Valley. I just had them in at City Hall here last week and I have been working with them since December. They will have atrue -- not incubator, but emerging business center that will be one kind of the state of art, that it sits right over -- right behind DBSI. On the -- on the targeted supply chain related entities and such, I talked about, try to find every information we can. So, what are those focused actions to accomplish? I will just -- one I have not mentioned or talked.. I will say this planned regional presentation to regional markets, why Meridian. And I say regional markets -- sometimes we skip -- we think -- we forget about the Portlands, the Seattles, or even some of the areas where people want to -- we already have people commuting back and forth. We forget about some of those regional areas where we are very attractive for a lot of reasons. The last one I would say is that part of the relationship to involve collaborative business involvement- relationship with ISU and INL. There is a very focused plan. You may not be aware of it, but, actually, what's happened is the National Health Foundation, I believe, has actually funded the new cyclotron for ISU, which will be used for medical isotopes, which, actually, will be related to the idea of treating prostate cancer and other forms of disease. They are looking at and having discussions about where that should be located and I can tell you the desires are potentially looking at having that located tied to the campus here. So, with that -- and, I apologize, I have used up my half hour talking, but I like the story and it's exciting.. I guess I would like to answer any questions. Rountree: Are there any questions, comments? Bird: I have none. Rountree: I don't see any. Thank you, Phi. Stiffler: Thank you. Rountree: It sounds like progress is being made and the outlook is good. Appreciate the effort. 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