Quarterly Update - Pasco Economic Development Council - No Funding Required
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We will move we have no resolutions today So we will move into regular agenda
The uh R forty seven.
At your quarterly update from the Pasco Economic Development Council.
Morning Mr. Chairman Members of the Board Mike Bishop, Pasco Economic Development Council. I'm here to present our quarter four updates as well as our entire fiscal year uh round down. So I'll go ahead and uh get started.
Gonna turn that microphone off if we can. All right.
Better?
Yes. Alright. Matter. They turned yellow.
All right.
Yeah.
Next slide, please. I don't know. So I'll dive right into our business recruitment lead pipeline. So you'll see that we still have a very active pipeline. We're working 63 projects right now. Our successes in the recruitment side, we have seven, and that really expand over logistics, life science, hype technology, advanced manufacturing. Advanced manufacturing continues to be a major source of leads and active projects. for us so we're excited to keep that trend going. Next
time.
So here's a recap of our um our wind as well as our capital investment and jobs. So you'll see that in the previous slide it was seven. This nine number includes our expansion projects here in the county as well. So you'll see our capital investment was close to $250 million, and a little shy of our goal of $1,100 in jobs, but we're at $1,087. Next.
So a little snapshot on our business retention and expansion program. You'll see that things are really starting to get back to normal in this kind of post-lockdown COVID world. So training programs delivered, you'll see we hit that number. Our company visits is pretty much dead on. So we are back out, meeting with our companies, working with them, and delivering them the resources that they need. Next slide.
This little snapshot of our events attended. So things are still getting there as far as events increasing, but we are making sure that we're getting out in the community. Some of the highlights here on the left-hand side are some of the national conferences that we've attended. So the AUVSI, that's the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International. So that ties into our aviation target industry. Tom Ryan was able to attend that. that. SIOR, that's Society of Industrial Industrial office realtors.
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with it. Okay. Meeting my voice, sorry. Um Day OP, that's the uh National Association of In um Industrial and Office Parks. Um that conference happened as well. And our uh Southeastern Economic Development Council, that was the first picture there, you'll see we received the award for our team on video. That was a joint effort with Florida's Ford Coast. So next slide please. Speaker's still weird. Does it any better?
No, you're okay.
Okay, all right, cool. So um just wanted to highlight some of our marketing efforts this year as uh as a whole. So as you know, we added to our marketing department. We have a second uh person in our marketing department, and it really stands to say all the earned media that we've earned uh this year. So um quarter four was almost seven hundred thousand itself, and you'll see that we had two point five million earned media for the year. Next slide.
Really cool stat here is that 80% or sorry close to 90% of our users on our website are new users, so that's showing that our our marketing efforts in lead generation and getting us out there to new people that are looking to move or people that are interested in our services has really on the upside. Next slide. Just another snapshot here, so uh over 9,000 audience, over 200,000 impressions. Um you'll see the video views boosted by more content that we've
done with our Smart Start program and that Forder Sports Windows video as well. Next time.
Highlight on our financial growth here. So we have a total of 87 investors now. What's really exciting is the board and policy council members that that have increased. You'll see on the right hand side there. We have a Santander, one of our major projects for the previous year that has joined our policy council, as well as Bank of America, that's become an investor, homes by West Bay, has actually become a board member. Um easessment, Basset McGrath, uh C D R E and Jules and Jordan, which has also become a
policy council member. So um it's very exciting time for our board and our policy council, having a very good mix of individuals in there to give us their um uh share with us their expertise and leadership. Next slide.
So, some just leadership highlights already mentioned the board and policy council members are task forces. As you know, our bylaws require us to have two task forces every year. So the Sustainability Planning Task Force has concluded, and that report is underway to come up with good guidelines on long-term sustainability for our penny programs. And the reasshoring task force is also coming to a close as they identify. Trends and understanding how we could potentially reshore, relocate companies that
have production overseas and bring it back a little
bit.
Policy Council working on ULI, revisiting that TAP study, so that's very exciting. And also the CEO roundtable, which has been somewhat dormant the past couple years, has been reimagined into the executive success program, which we'll see in your slides, which is a more inclusive monthly curriculum that's helped to increase engagement with these executives in the area, not just the CEOs, but all across the C suite. Next slide. And just some of our upcoming events. So meet
the members is a new event for us. That's an opportunity to we're inviting our investors to meet our incubator members. You'll see in the Penny presentation here, we're actually at 34 incubator members right now, which is an all-time high. So very excited to introduce the investors to them. Economic forecast luncheon, we'll be around the corner again in January, looking at a date on growth. Hasco which is an event for our entrepreneur ecosystem. And TeamUp is getting reimagined as well into
fun corporate field day. So we've had an initial conversation before to Sports Coast and we're excited to get that going as well.
So then I'll stop and ask any questions on the MOE presentation.
Any
questions? I got one quick question. Okay. Actually two. On the graph you showed you had a big jump going through and then the new eight point nine, I guess. thousand new m members. What do you attribute that big jump to?
Was that which which memory were you maintained?
Um if you want to go back a few slides and
Go back a little bit.
Are you talking about investors?
Maybe the audience went up.
Right here.
Alright, so you got eighty-nine percent of new users and then the graph on that page right there.
Right.
What do you attribute to that spike in both those numbers?
Yeah, so that should align with our team up video uh that we did with Ford of Sports Coast. Um that's right there if I'm it's pretty uh small for me there too, but I believe that's May and June if I'm reading that correctly. That was right around when we held that team up event and we had that release of the joint video. video that we did of Florida Sports Coast.
Um that one is Timber. I know there's been a lot of buzz around the crate and everything that's happening with the grove. I know that there's an increase in smart start.
what am I saying content that's coming out YouTube videos. So it really has to do with uh an increase in uh shorter videos, social postings, and uh getting out there and promoting the different companies.
And um you I think you've got October twenty sixth coming up meet the members. Yes. Any reading is scheduled on a Tuesday when we've got a board meeting?
Um that that was a time that fit well with the um with the crate or I'm sorry with the grove and uh then because we are holding that at the incubator itself. So we're trying to be respectful of the incubator members' time and making sure that we can have something that uh fits well. That's in the evening. That's in the evening, yes. That is a five to five to seven thirty events.
Well Mr. Chairman Mariano.
On a Tuesday. So I will say, considering this board and how much work they've done and staff's work they've done on that project more than anybody, um, you need to change that. Okay. I'm just being honest. There's there should be an opportunity for the board, especially the district commissioner that is now the chairman, to be able to be at that site for something so m monumental and This Um that's something that just has to be I'm not trying to throw you in the bus, but that's something that has to
be thought about and you got staff members out here in the you know just the element side and the planning side that work very very closely. Heck I remember the first time that they k they they purchased the thing and I sat in a room with every staff member there. Um prior to them knowing that was Commissioner Oakley's district, 'cause people, you know, forget sometimes who's is who, but yeah, that should be something that should be arranged prior with these commissioner schedules prior to being ever scheduled. So I would s highly suggest rescheduling that.
Understood. Yeah I can I can take that back and get with
Yeah, I've such some kind of direction from the the House to reschedule that.
I would add I would like to add a comment too. Um just kind of being the de facto voice for manufacturers moving to the county and um w all the program the program that we've started. I definitely um used to be really involved in preliminary conversations. when manufacturers are moving here. And I feel like that's dropp kinda dropped off a little bit. So I think it would be good for um that
Understood.
Yeah.
Did everything? All right. Thank
you. Well I'll move on to the Penny presentation really really briefly. I'll just go over the highlights and the rest of it is in your packet. Um you can go over to the next slide please.
So to highlight on Ready Site, so we're currently at seven sites over 2,100 acres. That eighth site has been assessed and invited into the program, so we're pending on that. Coming up, we have the trade mission to Germany, so that's in November. We did hold a virtual UK trade mission in September, had over 40 attendees, and it was a very successful virtual. Roll back. Enhanced marketing, you'll see like I mentioned previously the SEDC award
for the for the video that we put together with Four Sports Coast. We also received two IEDC awards, so that's a very, very great for us. That's our peers and a great economic development organization. As well as like I mentioned some of the SmartStart video testimonials that have been put together. Next slide. Mm.
Workforce Connect, so we had 43 primary target industries that were assisted in here in Pasco County with Workforce Connect. The executive success program I mentioned previously, and Smart Start, like I spoke about, just is really taken off, and that is at 34 in commander members right now, which is a high point. And we continue to Move forward on that program. I'll stop there. The rest of it's in your sheet there, unless you want me to go over anything specific.
Okay. Mr. Chairman a question. And I just texted Jenny. Um I know um she's been waiting to see the text of the friendship agreement that we're gonna be signing with Gemersheim. And um Jack, you were on the board when our German friends from that area came here. I don't know, five years ago or so. Seems like yesterday. And also uh Kurt Browning, Michelle Baker and I um traveled there. um I
don't remember how long ago. Um also for a visit and and um we have a school school board uh administration here today. Um you may some of you may or may not know that this area of Germany sends students to Pasco County. They go to River Ridge High School and take German classes and we send students over there, although frankly We haven't paid enough attention to that and I would like to put more effort into helping our students have that experience to grow their course with COVID. Probably
didn't happen. But we also had two students from River Ridge who did a summer internship in that area with the Mercedes truck manufacturing plant. And um so it's a great experience uh for our students to to be able to go over there and for their students to come here. And um so we're very excited this will be the first agreement that we're doing with another um country. And um
I don't have the text yet, so I know that we're waiting to see what that kind of looks like. I'll be bringing that to the board. I I'm hoping I can bring it today, maybe the end of the day, if not October 29th. And then we'll be doing the formal ceremony over there. So uh did you know you probably don't know. Um
I've seen
the
agenda. I I'm not familiar with the text though.
Okay, so it wa it wasn't ready to present yet, so but that's exciting.
Yeah.
All right.
All right. Thank you. All right. Thanks very much.
All right. Thank you.