North Stonington
Economic Development Commission
40 Main Street
North Stonington, CT 06359
October 20, 2011
Minutes
Meeting Called to Order at 7:10p.m.
Commissioners in Attendance Gladys Chase, Marilyn Mackay, Brad Currier, Brent Woodward, and PeterBogoian. Absent Commissioners were Brett Mastroianni, Linda Pershaec and Bob Kimball.
Robert Kimball, Treasurer was absent no report given.
Review of minutes of September 15 , 2011. Motion was made by Brett Woodward and seconded by Marilyn Mackay to accept minutes. Motion passed with one abstention
( Peter Bogoian).
David Isom introduced himself to the Commissioners. He shared some of the reasons he chose to move to North Stonington.
This was followed by an explanation of the things that the Commission has been working on as well as ideas we hope to achieve.
Develop the West end of Route 2
1,200 to 2,400 office, showroom / warehouse space
Mini – warehouse/storage
Infrastructure in commercial zones
North Stonington EDC Web Page with interaction
OLD BUSINESS:
EDC Business Association report was given by Marilyn. The Pumpkin Festival was scheduled for Oct 29,2011.
Christmas event is being planned.
NEW BUSINESS:
Email report from Juliet Leeming
Hello All,
I am unable to attend tomorrow’s meeting as I will be at the Regional Planning Conference in Providence. I just wanted to give you an update.
• The closing date for the RFQ for the Econ. Dev. Plan is this Friday. I anticipate about 8-10 responses. I received one from Fargo ND yesterday! I personally mailed the RFQ out to a few firms and posted it on both the CT Chapter of the American Planning Assoc.(CCAPA) and national APA websites. I will get copies of all the responses to you within the next week. We should then schedule either a special meeting to select a candidate – or I guess we could wait until the Nov. meeting to select and schedule a special time after that meeting to hold interviews. I will leave that up to you. I will send you the matrix the Affordable Housing Committee used to aid in the selection process. Reviewing the RFQ responses and picking a consultant will take a certain degree of participation on the
part of the Commission members. This is not something I can do on my own.
• I spoke with Mark about the website. He emailed the company we are working with and requested a “snapshot” of the website as it exists in the design process to date. I am not sure if he got a response yet. I asked him to put whatever he gets in response to the e-mail in the EDC mailbox before the meeting tomorrow.
• My focus is on the Plan and the Website right now. I have nothing else to report on the marketing kit.
I will be in touch next week.
Regards,
Juliet Leeming
Meeting adjourned 8:12 p.m.
Gladys Chase
Secretary
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