Pasco EDC quarterly update business recruitment

1:19:39because I've gonna You got it. I'll go as quick as possible. Morning Mr. Chair again, uh members of the board. I'm here to present our uh quarterly update for the Pasco DC, keep the economic development train going it seems today. So uh without further ado, we'll uh jump right in. So starting here with business recruitment, so um just to give you an idea of our pipeline, you'll see that we have a very healthy pipeline. We have about 103 active projects. Um majority of that, as you see the trend continuing, is advanced manufacturing.

1:20:09We have about half of our uh active projects, and um, I'm sorry, half of the leads are in advanced manufacturing, and about a third of the active projects. Projects or advanced manufacturing. One thing I wanted to point out just to celebrate International Trade and Tourism Day as well, we have several international projects that we're working, approximately 69 international projects. And just to highlight some of the key countries that these projects are coming from, we have 17 coming from Germany, 13 from the UK, five from India, four from France, and

1:20:40three each from Brazil. Canada, China, and Switzerland. So really active in the international side. So we appreciate Commissioner Starkey in recognizing that as well. Next slide. So so far in the project, so uh still got some work to do. We have one win. Um we did announce Gary Plastics last um a couple months ago, I believe. So that's that's coming down the pike. Um but uh as you see with the pipeline being very healthy, we're uh we're very uh hopeful that we can get there and uh get that done this year. So next slide. So a

1:21:10little update on our business retention expansion. So you'll see that the first metric is still tied to career source and there's still some some changes there as you know, so that's kind of hampered with that. But we do have uh 19 company visits so far and 18 workforce connections. Remember this is uh last quarter, um so we're on pace for the year.

1:21:31So, uh highlight on some of the events, I won't go through every one of them, but did want to point out uh STUS there on the left. That's the Southeast US Japan Association. That comes to Florida once every 14 years, so we are excited to uh participate in that. And uh now with code restrictions going down in travel, we anticipate going to Japan for next year's conference. We also have the uh we attended the Let Us Do Good Village. This is an association with Tonalt Towers, as you know, the Village on Land O' Lakes. Um, we're very excited to talk to them and collaborate on a potential uh veterans accelerator

1:22:01that we would do on uh on site there with them. And um, we also um hosted Leadership Pasco Business and Industry uh Day again. We had successful business tours of uh many of our companies here, uh like True. Simulation, uh touch point, and um um bravado pharmaceuticals as well on these side. So marketing and snapshot, we have over 900,000 in uh estimated or media value. Um Commissioner Oriano, I think you asked me last year kind of how that broke down. So we added that this year. Uh you'll see

1:22:31the top getter on that was our announcement with uh with Gary Plastics back in December. There's the date. This is a little snapshot on our website. So you'll see we had uh over 23,000 uh webpage views. That's across all of our websites. Many people don't know that we have multiple, so we did put those on there for you. And we did give the top locations of visitors by state outside of Florida. So we'll see hits from Virginia, California, Maryland, Georgia, and New York. So a couple of our top targets there. So

1:23:02a snapshot on social media, you see the audience impressions, engagements there, and we have some of our social media handles up there for you to reference as well. On the financial growth side, so uh we still boast a very uh healthy uh list of uh private investors that contribute to our organization. We had three new investors last quarter, uh Florida Blue, Marshall McClennan Agency, and Realty Trust Group. We have uh close to 200,000 raised to date and uh uh 90 total investors, with 42 of them

1:23:33being active in our policy, uh policy council. whore board of directors. So, a couple of upcoming events I just wanted to highlight. We're very excited about Grow Pasco, as you all know about our Smart Start Entrepreneurship ecosystem. This is a day-long conference at the Hyatt and Wesley Chapel meant to serve our entrepreneurs here in the community. We brought many good speakers on various topics that affect entrepreneurism. So we encourage you to put that word out there and anybody listening. or watching, you

1:24:03know, please uh take a look to uh to attend. Um we also have our uh Netfest coming up at Tampa Bay Sporting Clays. That's at the end of March. This is our big uh casual business networking event, um over 250, 300 people, uh really good for business-to-business connections. And not too early to announce our annual awards again, believe it or not, coming up in September. We are going to hold this at the IPAC, the PHSC IPAC in Wesley Chapel once again. It's a fantastic facility and we're very happy that they're

1:24:33welcoming us back. Uh without any questions on our MLU presentation.

1:24:40Uh no very exciting news though. Appreciate appreciate the work and it very interesting with that UK uh activity that's going on. Especially with the trip

1:24:48with the

1:24:49trip

1:24:49coming

1:24:49up soon.

1:24:50Yes, we do have a trip coming up soon. Um Turner can go through a list better than I can, but uh very active on international this year. Okay.

1:24:56Well I hate to cut you short, but we've

1:24:58got to move on to another very important thing. They have things

1:25:00to go do. So

1:25:01you got it. And the penny the penny programs, you have that in your packet so you can review any questions, let us know. Mike, thank you very much.

1:25:07All right, have a great day. See you later today.