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1. 1Jul 14, 2020
   Board of County CommissionersR1Regular businessNo disposition in the minutes

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   Mike Moore

   36:16We will move on to the regular agenda. Starting with R one when I get to it. R one quarterly update, Pasco Economic Development Council and if I think we have Mike. Are you on the line?

   Mike Bishop

   36:31Good morning Mr. Chairman. How are you?

   Mike Moore

   36:32We're doing great. Thank you.

   Mike Bishop

   36:37All right. Um Can you see the presentation? All right, we're pulling it up right now.

   36:44Got it. Well, good morning everybody, members of the board. My name is Mike Bishop. I'm the Director of Stakeholder Engagement at the Pasco DC and I'm here to uh give our quarter three update. Could you advance the slide, please?

   36:58So this is our year-to-date business recruitment project pipeline. You can see that we're still pretty active and we're getting a lot of interest uh from companies looking into Pasco County. Inquiries are still strumming. And uh we're continuing to funnel them towards legitimate leads and and working on increasing those leads as we, you know, continue through this current crisis. If you can advance to next slide, please.

   37:24This is a breakdown of the projects that we're currently working on. So you can see a pretty good mix of different industries, uh healthcare in there, transportation, but of course manufacturing is comprising a a good majority of it, and that's over 50%. So that's uh that's encouraging news. Next slide.

   37:43So here's our progress on projects, new jobs, capital investment.

   Mike Moore

   37:48Mike, I hate to stop you real I hate to stop you real quick, but um just state your name, your full name and where you're from just for the record, for the clerk.

   Mike Bishop

   37:57Yeah, I should have done it at the beginning. I apologize. Mike Bishop, [address removed] and that's in Land O' Lakes. Okay.

   Mike Moore

   38:07make sure we have that on the right-of-way.

   Mike Bishop

   38:08No

   Mike Moore

   38:08problem. Sorry to stop you.

   Mike Bishop

   38:10All good. All good. So uh so here's our projects, new jobs and capital investment progress year to date. So you'll see um on we're we're still on on a pretty good track. Our projects were at uh 10 out of 12 right now, and that's 83% of our goal. On the new jobs, we're at 493, and that's out of goal of a thousand, so that's at 49%. And capital investments were uh pretty close to 77 million, and uh that's 85% of the goal, uh which is ninety million. Next slide, please.

   38:43So going to business recruitment and um sorry, business retention and expansion, I apologize. This has been very active for us this quarter, as you can imagine. Um the biggest thing to highlight here is on that first goal of 90 company visits. We're at 76 right now, and that comprises 33 um interactions on uh manufacturing capability assessments that uh we did early on in in the crisis. You can also see here that we're at 17 when it comes to introducing local

   39:14primary target industry employers to relevant training programs. And that's at a goal of 20. So that's that's pretty far along. And also when it comes to introducing Pasco companies to different uh service providers such as Career Source and AMSkills, we're at uh six interactions on that. Next slide, please.

   39:35So these are the uh the events that we attended virtually uh through the quarter. You'll see that a lot of them are uh COVID related and in in regards to obtaining information that's relevant for businesses and being able to relay that that information.

   39:52Next slide please. So this is where you can tell that we um we got a little bit of an impact from uh from COVID and we uh you know were unable to attend any you know business uh market missions or conferences. we're we're continuing to track that and you know when we're able to do that safely you know we'll we'll continue down those paths but um you know right now uh unfortunately a lot of those have been canceled so and I am and I apologize I am I am moving relatively quickly I believe that you have a pretty jam-packed schedule so

   40:23if there's anything you want me to slow down on let me know. Uh next slide please. So we're still able to do some local presentations. We did six of those to uh different business groups. Um all of these were done virtually um you know in order to uh uh stay safe and and uh still accommodate being able to obtain these these different goals.

   40:47All right, next slide. So going a little bit into the marketing piece, there was an estimated $264,000 in estimated earning value or earned media value, rather. A lot of this was in regards to the Pasco Emergency Business Grant, which we'll go into a little bit in next few um in a couple slides. Um we also had an announcement for the uh the new incubator at the Grove and uh a company announcement as well. So that that's how that uh two hundred and sixty-four thousand intermedia was obtained. Next

   41:19slide.

   41:21So real quick on our Google Analytics, um you can see all the data there. The biggest highlight here, I'll point to our page views, uh close to fifty thousand. That's a significant uptick and that's mainly attributed to our COVID-19 resource page that was put together for businesses. And also the Pasco Emergency Business Grant. So very encouraging to see that a lot of our local businesses were getting onto our site and looking for additional resources that can help them through the current crisis. Next

   41:52slide.

   41:55And some of our social media analytics. Um, you know, not much really go over there. You can see the numbers. Next slide.

   42:04A little update our on on our investor piece. So um I'll just go through the numbers really briefly here. You know, you'll see we have uh seventy-six total investors. Um we're at uh three hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars raised to date so far. We're at twenty-nine board members with uh three ex officio. So far we have gotten actually, that's a typo, that should be five new investors with a new investor this uh past quarter and Brooker.

   42:34And next slide. So this is the the the the biggest piece of the presentation and forgive me I'll I'll go through this line by line because I think it is important to highlight these pieces. This is our COVID update. So um just to go through it, um we were uh working on the Pasco Emergency Business Grants and we uh awarded uh 1,250 companies with that grant. We had six million forty-three thousand dollars distributed for the Pasco Emergency Business

   43:05Grant to these companies. We had two hundred and thirty-eight company operation status phone calls. So this was um uh a call, stand-up call center that was that was put in place to reach out and uh check on our businesses to see uh what was going on and what needs we can uh or what uh what needs that they had that we could address. We had 105 business impact survey responses and 14% of survey companies responded they considered producing critically needed goods. So that that was that was uh great to see. Um as I

   43:35noted before, we had 33 manufacturing capabilities phone calls. 377 company outreach phone calls in general. 55 follow-up company assistance phone calls. Three training partners offer uh free skill uh free upskilling training, uh business education information. 43 COVID-19 resource communication email newsletters, uh 33 free virtual business classes offered, which I'll highlight a little bit of that. Um we had 745 participants to

   44:05those virtual classes, and we saw a sixty-two uh percent increase in the visitors to the Workforce Connect website from February to March, uh which was encouraging. Um and as I already noted, um we had 41,391, uh 381 rather, COVID-19 related web page views that were a part of that main 49,000 number. So apologize going through that line by line, but I felt that was important to uh to cover. Next slide. So a little bit on our upcoming events. So, you know, we're we're

   44:35working on trying to pull events off virtually. Um, we will be doing an event called Pasco 2020, a story of strength. That will be a virtual event on September third that we will be highlighting um the resiliency of the county um in our business community, along with um first responders. Um uh and other various county um programs and and help that uh put together for response to covet nineteen. We also have uh we're playing the Small Businesses Growing

   45:05World Global event, and that's on October 22nd. And then we also have our meet the projects and Pasco 50 that we're currently planning right now and that will potentially either be hybrid or virtual in our quarter four. Next slide.

   45:23All right, great. And uh we'll move on to the to the next presentation, please.

   45:29All right, so this is our uh our our penny programs. Um and like I said, in the interest of time, I will just go over the main highlights at the beginning. You do have uh the comprehensive information in your packet, and if there's any question that you had on that, I'd I'd be um more than happy to answer. So um next slide.

   45:50So um quickly on our ready sites programs, um here are the highlights here. The that sixth site that was discussed uh previously in the last presentation um has been through evaluation. It is not complete yet. Um it is still awaiting that final consultant report to uh to check the box. We also have identified an additional site, the seventh site. That invitation has been extended. So we will keep tabs on that and see how that progresses. But

   46:20we do have uh five sites currently being actively marketed in the program. On the international side, uh Global Tampa Bay and the uh virtual export assistance program with Enterprise Florida. Um this is really exciting because um they are replacing the uh Gold Key Grant program with a virtual matchmaking that they are doing, and companies can participate um in this process virtually, which makes it uh you know uh much more accessible for these companies that are considering doing export

   46:50and getting that guidance to do so. We've also had discussions with foreign direct investment prospects regarding reshoring initiatives. This is a a big topic right now, so we are we are jumping on that to assess to see if we have any um opportunities in the reshoring aspect. Our Small Business Growing Global event I I just mentioned, um, we're actually we had to make a little switch in who was the uh the the different speakers. And uh we will have the council generals for Germany, Brazil, and Mexico on

   47:20this. So we were very excited that we were able to get additional um um engagement with those with those different council generals. Enhanced marketing, we uh we're currently working on and well have finished applying for 15 annual marketing awards from um the International Economic Development Council and that's the uh Southern Economic Development Council. We also did Smart Start website updates with videos and highlighting the di the three entrepreneur locations as well as

   47:51creating foreign direct investment flyer specific for international marketing. Next slide.

   48:01on a workforce connect that is continuing to be enhanced, that is a a a a um you know um a big topic right now. And uh the website is being enhanced with more features that come to uh automated referrals and connecting different employers with potential job seekers. We also have um enhanced the workforce counseling uh program to cover a a more diverse range of uh businesses during the current pandemic and have worked closely with training partners uh specifically on post-pandemic

   48:32resiliency plan for uh what retraining and upskilling is gonna look like as we uh get through the current crisis. On the CEO program, the um previously mentioned Bro Pasco event in the last presentation, we we did have to uh reschedule that. The CEO dinner piece is going to be rescheduled for January 2021. Uh the keynote speaker that we had, Kevin Harrington, which was uh the uh one of the original sharks, the program Shark Tank, he has reconfirmed for that event. So we are we are looking forward to having

   49:02that in. January.

   49:06previous mention to it, but the big news is the um third entrepreneur center at the Grove that uh the lease has been signed there, as well as the crate, which is that um uh container park project that's being put up there. And we're very excited about this because we feel this is going to be a good uh natural fit for our budding entrepreneurs to be able to have access to uh the container park and and Test out their different business uh plans and different goods that they have out in the market. And I may

   49:36mention previously that the Smart Star program had 33 virtual events. Um this was part of a Co Starters Refocus class. And uh we had seventy seven hundred and forty-five participants. Uh very good feedback from those classes as well. And that has comprised many different businesses across Pasco County. And as I mentioned, the Grow Pasco event, the main event, is also rescheduled for January twenty-one. Um and we will still have Kevin Harrington

   50:06as that as that keynote speaker.

   50:10Um yep, so th this is where I'll I'll I'll stop here. Like I said, there's much more detail ahead. Um I did cover the highlights and if there were any questions at all, um I'm happy to answer.

   Mike Moore

   50:23Comments? Questions? Comments? Commissioner Oakley? Commissioner Weightman. So do you have any questions or comments?

   50:31None. Okay.

   Mike Bishop

   50:34All right. Well thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. I appreciate it. Have a great day and stay safe.