2016-09-08 Edmonds Downtown Alliance (BID) MinutesEdmonds
• Downtown
ALLIANCE
September 8, 2016
8:00AM-9:30AM
Edmonds Center for the Arts
Green Room
Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Robert Boehlke, Kiersten Christensen, Jacob Comstock, Pam Ehrbar, Clayton Moss, John
Rankin, Petra Rousu, Cadence Clyborne, Apple Catha, Cindi Cruz, Jordana Turner, Patrick Dougherty
Absent: Shubert Ho, Kimberly Koenig
Guests: Dave Buelow, Edmonds Historical Museum; Mary Kay Sneeringer, Edmonds Bookshop
Call to order — 8:04 am
Welcome and President's Report — Shubert will be out until later this year.
Majority of today's mtg — focus on workplan. Moving forward with Salish Crossing expansion. Meeting
next week to combine Member Outreach and Business Outreach committees; will work on this. Will
separate umbrella program as separate line item and also separate out Holiday and July 4t" expenses.
Public Comments - Dave Buelow, Museum — thanked Ed! for helping complete the plaza by contributing
the Walking Map. Sharing highlights on Scarecrow Festival. 5000 unique web visitors to the site last
year; 85 scarecrows. Good opportunities for businesses to be involved. Will have an online map of
locations. Instagram, FB and Twitter. Signage will be provided to participants. Register by Oct 1.
Minutes from 8.11.16 — correction — Shubert was not in attendance on 8/11. Clayton moves to approve,
Cadence seconded. All approved; Apple, Jordana and Kiersten abstained.
Treasurer's Report — Noted Appearance & Environment committee expense was for 50% deposit on
umbrella order.
New Businesses — Driftwood Modern, Zizo Spa, Tracey Grady LLC, Santa Rosalia Guest House, Fortaleza,
Thrivent Financial, Finance of America Mortgage, Peoples Bank.
Committee Updates
Marketing: Kimberly away; committee meeting on Monday. Combined messaging with city for holidays.
Appearance & Env—Jordana deferred to Clayton. Have two entities working to improve parking —
Economic Dev and Ed!. Short term — look at existing city parking areas, satellite streets, signage
improvements, and employee parking zones. Shared proposed plans to rearrange parking proposed by
Geralyn Reinart. Cadence asked if the information would be shared with the Economic Development
Council. Another idea - some businesses have underground parking that lease parking to other
businesses to use. Parking engineer - needs a contract signed, for any non -vendor. Committee to
request scope of work from the engineer so Pam can draft the contract.
Umbrella Program - Robert shared that 600 umbrellas have been ordered; shared a drawing of another
umbrella holder option. $25 wholesale; holds 4-6 umbrellas. Will bring sample for next meeting.
Grant Program — looking at revising language to make clearer
Non -Profit — no updates
Member Outreach and Business Collaboration and Outreach — meeting next week to discuss combining
these committees. Will have them lead BID expansion.
Professional Business Resources — Kiersten; based off Turnstyle bid — will be making updates on home
page for website, and talked about plan moving forward to include in 2017 Workplan.
2017 Workplan Discussion
Goals — look at schedule to get things done, set up city council time, discuss how to share the workplan.
Prep to bring to city council: Include 2017 Workplan, amendments to ordinance, amendments to
bylaws, potentially bringing in petitions at the same time. Plan to have it October 3. Try for city council
in late October — maybe 10/25- Petition — if we have responses in a week prior (Oct 17-18), would be OK.
Asked as many board members as possible to attend. Cadence will put PPT presentation together — need
list of accomplishments from each committee for this. Graphics, photos will help. Need this in two
weeks.
Robert, Cadence and Pam met to discuss Workplan. Shared 2016 version. Put things in that
administrator could manage, instead of volunteer hours. Focus: What is most important to
membership? Parking, pedestrian safety. What can we do to hone in on what we can accomplish next
year?
Patrick —when council approves budgets, there is usually a project associated with it. May include but
not limited to (list capita projects) — street improvements, informational signage...
Find out what West Seattle does to manage their parking lot. Could be a good use of funds. Define this
and put it in the workplan.
Pedestrian safety - Idea for crosswalk art. Pam Stuller had researched cost for this.
Patrick — notion to carry a balance in order to pay bills along the way. Add to workplan — need to have a
reserve to pay the bills.
Asked every committee to send information to Cadence to complete draft work plan. Need by next
Wednesday 9/14. If she doesn't get it, it won't be included in the work plan. Work plan will be reviewed
at meeting on the 22nd
City Update
Patrick — requesting a bid on the 14t" for state preservation conference. Didn't get it last time; Hoping
for same commitment from Ed to offer $1000 sponsorship for the conference. Event is a 2.5 day
conference; 250 members from around the state would stay in the area; lunches and dinners on their
own. Sponsors get great recognition. Total budget is $17,000. Two dates — either May 215t-23rd, or April
23rd — 25tn of 2017. City will be asking for more sponsorships. Sno Co County request is for $14,000. 250
attendees. Cadence moved for Ed! to sponsor up to $1500 for the Main Street/RevitalizeWA conference
in Edmonds as a one-time expenditure for 2017. Jordana seconds. All approved, none opposed.
Will share updated sign code info with our membership.
Business attraction event at end of October — commercial property brokers, etc. — why bring your
business to Edmonds. Also upping business attraction ads. Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle Magazine.
Starting in Oct., KUOW radio advertising.
Sustainable cities program through WWU; app or mobile -friendly site to help with downtown
orientation, culture. Kickoff of event in Bellingham on Sept 29th. Will be presenting to class, and want Ed
to be involved.
Holiday market going forward well. Had 20 vendors last year; 30 so far this year. Santa station — maybe
be on trolley for awhile, be in the station for awhile — discuss. % of 5th avenue will be the market. Will
have music. Co-op on digital marketing campaign — will discuss with our marketing committee.
New Business — none today.
Adjourn — 9:36 am.