2013-12-19 Edmonds Downtown Alliance (BID) MinutesMinutes from EDBID board meeting 12/19/2013 at HDR conference room at 8am.
Attendance: Pam, Steve, Sally, David, Kevin, Cadence, Kim, Mary Kay, Paul, Stephen
and Roger.
Guest: John Dewhirst.
Meeting called to order at 8:02am.
No opening remarks.
Action Items from 12/5/2013:
Meeting with Jeff Taraday has been set up for Jan 14, 2014. The purpose of the meeting
is to discuss the 5016 and the Agency Service Agreement.
Member meeting has been set for April 30 in the Plaza room.
Minutes from 12/5/2013 were approved.
No Presidents report.
City Update: Approx. $9788 is still uncollected. The Finance Dept's position is to wait
until the Board decides how to handle delinquent accounts and what the next steps will
be. Next billing of assessments is Jan 3, 2014.
A motion was proposed that "we forgive finance charges for the businesses who have
paid their assessments less the service charges so they do not carry forward for 2014".
There was a lot of discussion. Motion failed.
Treasurer Report: Paul reported that $1766.85 was spent as of Dec 17,2013 for member
engagement and outreach.
Treasurer Report: Paul reported that he is switching to Quick Books in 2014.
Paul will meet with Roger and the Finance Dept. to discuss closing the books for 2013.
Kevin asked if we should budget a projected delinquency. It was discussed and we
decided not to budget for it.
Committee Reports:
College Survey -Paul visited the class. They reported 85% active emails and current
address list. They shared a lot of feedback. Paul will get together with Pam and update
Master Business List.
In the future if we decide to work with EDCC, Paul recommended that we have a more
defined and specific task list that can be completed in a 10 week period. Kevin suggested
we contact Ailsa Kellum who is now teaching at EDCC, to see if her students would be
interested in handling any projects.
RFP- Tumstyle has accepted the offer to proceed with negotiations. The committee met
last week and went over Turnstyle's revised scope and budget. The committee sent the
City's contract to Turnstyle. Turnstyle has their own contract. Cadence contacted
Beresford Booth, they would charge $375 per hour to review the contracts, or a Jr.
attorney could go over it for less.
Cadence made a motion "that we send Beresford Booth the contract and that a Jr.
attorney review it".
There was a discussion.. The motion was recinded.
Action: Cadence will contact Jeff Taraday and/or Sharon from Lighthouse to find out
how to handle the contract.
A motion was proposed "If Cadence is unable to get ahold of Jeff Taraday, the
Committee has the authority to spend up to $2000 for attorney fees to review the
contracts.
The motion was passed.
For future legal services we need a request for qualifications from other law firms within
the BID. The contract timeframe with Turnstyle does not allow us the time needed to get
the RFQs.
The committee notified the other firms that we have made a selection. They reported that
some firms were disappointed with the process.
Member Letter: The board reviewed the letter and made changes. The letter will be sent
out with the first quarter billing for 2014. It was suggested that we send out an additional
letter or note to those businesses that are delinquent letting them know we are working
with the Finance Dept. to develop a policy for handling delinquent accounts. We decided
to hold off until after a policy has been determined.
Action: Mary Kay will make the changes to the letter and send it the finance dept.
Action: David will contact other BIDs to see how they handle their delinquent accounts.
Action: David and Kim will meet with Finance Dept. before the next meeting to discuss a
policy for handling of delinquent accounts.
New Business: Kevin proposed we consider having non -BID members as advisors. They
would be non -voting members. We will add that to a future agenda.
Public Comments: John Dewhirst from the Economic Development Committee and
Tourism subcommittee talked to us about those committees. It was suggested that in the
future when the BID is ready to spend money on tourism or marketing that we first talk to
Stephen or Cindi and/or the EDC/Tourism board about leveraging our dollars. The EDC
meets the 3rd Wed. of the month at 6pm in the Brackett room. Some board members will
try to attend.
At the January 7, 2014 City Council meeting there will be a public hearing regarding the
BD 1 zoning for office/retail space.
Meeting adjourned at 9:34am.
Next meeting January 9 in the HDR conference room at Sam.