[0:00] Okay, we're going to change up a little bit. First, we're just welcome, everybody here. And so we're just having a look at the minutes. Do we have a motion that proves the minutes or the fractions on them? Okay, so I'm very with the motion. Any second? Second, thank you. All in favor? Okay, so I'm going to introduce a couple of guests. We have here. We've had them on before, but we had a retail.

[0:29] strategy. It's a company that we contract with to go to the patient and help

[0:35] to find retail companies to come here. They have a site visit. We can have

[0:43] to go and so they come to the patient and they look to the patient so we're

[0:47] going to have them report on their site visit. It's kind of their perceptions of what

[0:52] we have of what we can expect and what we have available and with our growth

[0:58] finds everything kind of their perception of what they saw when they're here. So we're

[1:04] going to turn the time over to Brooke and John. So thank you Brian and hello the morning everybody.

[1:14] We were just in pace in the last week and really quick if I shared my screen does everybody have

[1:21] ability to see that or. Yes. Okay. It's just a very quick kind of abbreviated. Um, so as Brian

[1:32] mentioned, um, the city of Payton just recently partnered with retail strategies for full service

[1:38] Recruitment and can I see right? Yes,

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[3:28] years into to using zoom and doing all this regularly and still having issues.

[3:37] So sorry about that y'all.

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[3:48] Okay, sorry, let me get that screen shared again.

[3:53] Hopefully it's not just screen sharing.

[3:56] Yeah.

[3:56] Yeah, okay.

[3:59] So yes, we recently entered into a partnership.

[4:02] It is a three year engagement.

[4:04] And so specifically what John Mark and I are doing

[4:07] is we see ourselves as an extension

[4:09] of your economic development team,

[4:11] specifically for retail recruitment.

[4:13] So the slide we're looking at right now

[4:16] is a little bit of what that partnership life cycle looks like. So we are currently in

[4:20] this discovery and data analysis space. So as soon as we engage we ran some data demographics

[4:27] from different retailers in Payson. And what this allows us to do is to really view the market

[4:33] as retailers see it. So a lot of retailers don't look at Payson as specifically as the city boundary.

[4:40] They look at it more of the custom trade area. They want to know who's coming, who's spending

[4:45] money in Payson. So we run all this data analysis. We're looking at the demographics as well,

[4:52] because when we're talking to these retailers, they each kind of have their own secret sauce of

[4:56] what they know what works for them in terms of population household income. You know, some of them

[5:02] are even as detailed as we need this percentage of the population to be 14 and under. That's more for

[5:10] some of the experiential tripling parks, that type of thing.

[5:16] So we are analyzing all of that data and then we actually come to the market.

[5:20] We were there last Monday.

[5:23] And so we drove the market ourselves first to kind of get our assessment on it.

[5:27] And then we met with Brian and his team.

[5:29] And then we also drove the market just to get that local perspective of it.

[5:35] and then we met with five different property owners,

[5:39] which is actually helpful, very beneficial for us,

[5:42] because property is what really moves the real estate,

[5:47] or the real estate is what moves these retailers to expand.

[5:50] So when we're talking to retailers,

[5:52] they might be very interested in expanding in Utah,

[5:55] but until they have a site that's their criteria,

[5:59] they'll just kind of sit on it.

[6:00] So this early engagement meeting the property owners,

[6:03] getting to talk to them kind of about the history of their property. Having that direct

[6:06] line communication with them will be very beneficial for us as we kick off that active

[6:11] engagement and active recruitment. And so following our market visit last week, we're

[6:16] set to schedule the formal retail strategy presentation. And then that officially kicks off active

[6:22] recruitment. And then active recruitment. We are calling these retailers, emailing these retailers

[6:29] on behalf of the city of Payson. We're reaching out to property owners. We're talking to the city,

[6:36] regarding timelines. We know there's a lot of exciting stuff coming up in Payson in the next

[6:42] couple years, so making sure we're informed of those timelines regarding any utilities,

[6:49] anything like that that will help us when we're talking to these retailers. And that also involves

[6:53] conference representation. So that's ICSC Las Vegas which was in May in the

[7:00] spring and then actually next week we're going to ICC Western in San Diego and

[7:05] that is kind of the premier show for retailers that are specifically looking to

[7:10] expand in the Western region and so and

[7:19] so kind of we say National Retail

[7:23] He'll take it from 18 to 36 months.

[7:25] So this is what we say, discover, connect advance.

[7:28] We are just wrapping up that discover phase

[7:30] with that retail strategy presentation coming up.

[7:34] And then we are working on connecting and advancing.

[7:36] So again, talking to those property owners,

[7:38] talking to retailers who are looking to expand in Utah,

[7:42] trying to tee up those conversations

[7:44] that may or may not have happened otherwise

[7:45] and really give the city a seat at the table

[7:47] every step of the way.

[7:49] and this is a timeline slide and we really just include this. I always joke that John

[7:57] Mark could do an entire, you know, college level class just on this single slide alone,

[8:02] but this is just a case study of typically how long it takes a retail deal to do.

[8:08] I will caveat this is just a case study. We've seen this take six months if, you know,

[8:14] when party city declared bankruptcy some retailers were able to really take advantage of those

[8:19] existing retail spaces and power centers and they were in in six months and then we've seen

[8:24] this take up to six years for a single-dutch grows which has a very small prototype build out.

[8:30] So it really depends on the deal, the financials, the performance, economic factors, everything.

[8:38] that the circles that are highlighted in green are really where we can step in and influence

[8:44] these decisions and help kind of the conversation, talking to the real estate director, as they're

[8:50] identifying markets, keep pacing in front of them, you know, once they've decided, yes,

[8:54] we're looking in and around you talk, give them sites and pacing, connecting with developers,

[8:59] that type of thing is really where we have a hand in it. And so, and this is just a quick example.

[9:06] this is all the national retail in Payson and we're able to run mobile tracking data from any

[9:13] of these national retailers and what that mobile tracking data allows us to do is create this

[9:19] key map. So as you can see this is where shoppers and that was specifically from the Walmart.

[9:26] So anything that's highlighted is where shoppers are coming to shop at the Payson Walmart.

[9:33] So, when we were creating that custom trade area to talk to these retailers, we'll pick

[9:37] a couple different nodes of retail, and it helps grow the city boundary.

[9:44] So, you're looking at a bigger area than just Paisen city proper.

[9:54] Yeah, and then, John Mark, if you want to add anything again, we are in wrapping up that

[9:59] discovery phase, and then we're getting ready for the ICSE Western Show next week and looking

[10:05] to schedule that retail strategy presentation, but Brian was very, very beneficial to our team,

[10:13] getting property owners last week able to actually talk to them one-on-one,

[10:18] a nice, warm interest, so when we call them, they know who we are and kind of that we're working with

[10:23] the city.

[10:27] Yeah, and just really quick, you know, kind of just some brief takeaways from our visit

[10:33] and some property owners and those sorts of things, you know, I like to think of markets

[10:38] and deals and timelines as, you know, low-hanging fruit and kind of how and how when and how things

[10:45] can be taken down and deals could happen and those sorts of things. So great, great,

[10:50] too, or great drive. Thank you all again for for driving us around and just for all the insights

[10:54] and time that y'all provided last week. I think that, you know, the lowest-hanging fruit, so to say,

[11:02] the quickest sites that are currently under development are about to be under development are along

[11:09] 800 south down there in the existing retail corridor and that makes a lot of sense. Most retailers

[11:14] want to be around other retailers. They really value co-tenancy, they really value existing traffic,

[11:20] existing traffic draws, those existing anchors such as Walmart. So I think in the newer term,

[11:26] I love what's going on on 800 South, particularly on the West South, the freeway.

[11:31] We spoke with the Red Bridge Station ladies as well as the property owners just on the

[11:39] South side there across from 7-11 Wendy's, all of that.

[11:44] So I love what's going on there, Red Bridge Station, we know already has a site plan, they're

[11:48] starting to market it.

[11:49] So that's really valuable and then knowing that we have already retailers interested and

[11:56] willing property owners on the on the east side of the roundabout there. It's kind of south of

[12:04] Wendy's like I said is really valuable and really helpful. So I think that's kind of the lowest

[12:08] hanging fruit and again that's just because there is existing retail and obviously turf farm way

[12:14] kind of going around there beside Walmart with the upcoming hotel project as well as pets that

[12:20] they are already starting to lease. Those are properties that already have site plans, already

[12:25] have some infrastructure in place or kind of ready to go. But of course, you know, as we continue

[12:30] discussing, continue driving. Oh, and I got to say the, what did y'all call it? The pit or the

[12:37] garage? The broth or now? The broth, like, grotto. Yep. So down there, you know, as we know,

[12:44] lows is going just over to the east of that. So again, experience developer, you know, great, good

[12:52] a good, super solid property, the ability to get pilot signage removed that wall there.

[12:56] It's very valuable and I could see, you know, that's, again, low hanging fruit.

[13:00] Where could a junior anchor shopping center go?

[13:02] It's going to go where there's already traffic and there's already

[13:05] co-tenancy and all of those sorts of things.

[13:07] But obviously moving up north on, you know, I-15,

[13:11] there's plenty of opportunities certainly with the new interchange coming

[13:16] but as well as the, you know, Southern Farms development.

[13:19] I mean, there's so much going on up there and I think that those are a little bit longer

[13:25] term and that's not a bad thing that just allows us to get early, start having conversations

[13:30] early, put these on people's radars earlier, I think until how does this start moving, both

[13:35] on the new interchange as well as other farms that's going to be, you know, just a little bit

[13:40] longer-winded, longer term planning, discussions, interests, those sorts of things, but again, that's

[13:46] necessarily a bad thing. It's very exciting. I'll say my mind is blown at the

[13:52] amount of growth, the amount of homes coming. And again, just thank you again for those

[13:58] conversations that were teed up for us last week because there's just wonderful players,

[14:03] people that are experienced, willing, able, and ready to start investing and continue investing

[14:08] in pace. And so, the fact that we have something more, you know, nearer term, ready to start

[14:14] marketing site plans are made for commercial padded out, et cetera, and then we also have

[14:19] longer term bigger projects to start kind of master planning and including in our discussions

[14:24] with retailers. It's just very, very good to have both options. Some retailers can take longer.

[14:31] I've worked on a Chick-fil-A deal in Washington State for over four years now and they haven't even

[14:38] closed on a property yet. And so, you know, those types of discussions, those types of retailers,

[14:42] but also working on a tropical smoothie deal that's about to close and we've been working

[14:49] on it for six months.

[14:50] So, again, this is an example of how things can go faster, go slower, so just the ability

[14:56] to have different different types of properties.

[15:00] Some existing retail corridors, existing interchanges with high traffic, as well as literally a brand-new interchanges is huge and just provide so many options and so many different ways to plug people in and have conversations with people. But again, just blown away at the amount of investment, the amount of people, the willingness, the friendliness. We're really grateful again for those conversations that were scheduled for us last week and really excited to continue working.

[15:27] So that's that's my quick synopsis. Happy to share any more thoughts or answer any questions, but that's just kind of a quick synopsis of last week.

[15:37] Great. Thanks, John, Brooke. They're pleasant to work with. They're great people. So we're really excited about how retail strategy. Do you have any questions for them while we got them online?

[15:50] I have one. I know 800 South is a really desirable area and all the places that you pointed out. I'm curious what your thoughts are for the other side of basin. So we have.

[16:03] How far does it go? Is it down to the new parkway? I don't know what's called.

[16:15] It's not quite too low for a mountain, right?

[16:17] Yeah, it's not quite too low for a mountain, right?

[16:18] Yeah, it's not quite too low for a mountain, right?

[16:18] It's just past summer.

[16:20] Okay, sure.

[16:20] So I know there's that new exit.

[16:21] That's working on.

[16:22] It's going to be nice.

[16:23] A couple years going to be over there.

[16:25] So there could be some opportunities on that side.

[16:27] But I know we're also.

[16:29] I think part of our agreement with you is to.

[16:31] A little bit of support for downtown.

[16:33] Not full support like you guys.

[16:35] Right?

[16:36] There was something like that.

[16:37] part of the brain. I was curious if you had any thoughts on the other side of

[16:41] pacing if there was anything came to mind during your visit. Yeah yeah and I'm

[16:45] glad you brought that up. I didn't just I didn't bring that up just for the sake

[16:48] of time but definitely my biggest focus is going to be the new connector row

[16:53] that connects Arrowhead Trail up to. What was pacing Parkway? So the pacing Parkway

[17:00] kind of connector I think that is certainly going to be a really big part of

[17:04] just that entire side, especially with the new homes coming up.

[17:08] So, yeah, drove over there, I really like it.

[17:11] It's very green right now.

[17:12] I think most retail that we're going to be talking to,

[17:15] we're going to be focused around the interchange first

[17:18] and then it will grow down.

[17:19] That's just my opinion, but definitely we'll include that

[17:23] in discussions and seeing where things could go.

[17:27] Long-term, again, I think that's more of the long-term play

[17:29] versus the things that are in the shorter term next year,

[17:33] next year or so, but we drove over there, we drove up and down to our head

[17:36] trail, saw where Pacin Parkway is going to connect up to the new interchange. So I

[17:41] think my thoughts are you know plenty of opportunities and it's a very strong

[17:47] growing market but I think it's mostly going to be focused around Pacin Parkway,

[17:50] which we'll hook up into the new interchange.

[18:07] So our main focus is on national retail. We do have the ability to

[18:11] to reach out to and recruit to some downtown areas,

[18:15] but we do have another branch of the company

[18:17] called Downtown Strategies.

[18:19] Our main focus is on national retail,

[18:22] so we will, you know, in discussing the market,

[18:26] we'll be happy to share opportunities

[18:27] with national retail for downtown.

[18:29] We love downtown, that's where,

[18:31] that's where Brooke and I go in the evenings for dinner

[18:34] or for breakfast or whatever that may be.

[18:36] But our main focus is on national retail,

[18:39] So we will be, you know, discussing sharing any opportunities were applicable and we will happily, you know, send any retailers or any businesses downtown that we discussed with, but personally, it's really, really nice. I love we love exploring down there.

[18:54] I was going to say we really impressed with downtown pay sign. It was very can tell, but some work in to aesthetically when you pull up very, very cute and gritty.

[19:05] But just from a retail standpoint, the national retailers that we're talking to have a little

[19:11] bit different requirements than what would be a typical downtown site, whether that's

[19:15] parking.

[19:17] Because most downtowns you've just got parking on Main Street in each restaurant has designated

[19:23] 3 to 5 parking spots where your national retailers are going to want at least 40 or 50 parking

[19:30] spots.

[19:30] So kind of the John Marx point like as we're talking to these retailers and things come up, we'll definitely highlight opportunities near downtown if applicable, but our primary focus is going to be that national retail.

[19:48] But if there's any if there's any sites or properties that are vacant that that is, you know, needed to be highlighted to us, we can work on some, you know, smaller level type retail, but our main focus is on the national side.

[20:01] Any

[20:06] other questions?

[20:07] For John Brook?

[20:10] A great thanks so much for hopping on, and if you want to just listen to what we have

[20:14] to say about other things, economic development based on your happy stay on, but you can

[20:20] leave it if you'd like to also, so thank you very much.

[20:24] Yeah, thank you.

[20:24] Thank you, Brian.

[20:25] Thank you all.

[20:26] We will jump off.

[20:27] We have another commitment, but thank you all very much for your time.

[20:31] Thank you.

[20:32] Y'all a good one.

[20:37] Okay, next thing on the agenda is our golf event, which is coming up October 1st to

[20:43] do it.

[20:45] But soon, we still have quite a few slots left.

[20:52] We have done really well with the local people or businesses that want to be part of it,

[20:59] paid us money.

[21:01] We're doing really well this year, but we still need quite a few of those that we're trying

[21:04] to recruit to come to Bates and like brokers that bring people or things like that. So if you

[21:11] know of anybody, let us know and we can reach out to them or you can reach out to us and say,

[21:18] is this a good fit? Then we can say yes or no and you can then reach out to them. But if I've

[21:24] played through the available one and we want to use it to the one's use force to recruit businesses

[21:32] is become the face and you should network with Brook and John, is that it?

[21:39] Yeah.

[21:40] They might have suggestions of people in the event ages to attend.

[21:46] Yeah, that's good.

[21:47] They do know about this thing.

[21:49] Next year, they're going to plan their visit around there and per call to you, Daniel.

[21:53] And we do have two helicopters this year, but one's a bigger helicopter, so we'll build

[22:00] I think we're more people too.

[22:02] So it isn't the tank with the air conditioning of the cage.

[22:07] It's in the bucket.

[22:09] I think we have out of the lake right now.

[22:12] Yeah.

[22:13] It's through the two.

[22:14] It's a one.

[22:15] It's a one.

[22:16] We're all too adventurous.

[22:18] I think it's like it's not figure out what that loud noise was outside my window.

[22:25] What was the screen?

[22:29] Okay.

[22:29] Okay, next thing is, we have a new business

[22:33] that we've been to a place that's called Sending For.

[22:37] They purchased the plunder building,

[22:39] and I called it a plunder building

[22:42] in front of one on the other day,

[22:43] and they said, no, it's a Sending Corp building,

[22:45] so it's no longer the plunder building.

[22:49] Anyway, just a little bit about Sending Corp.

[22:51] They're a national company, they're out,

[22:55] they had courses free to build.

[23:01] They started out with doing security all over the world, so they still do security.

[23:08] But that's kind of not as prevalent as it used to be.

[23:12] It's been advanced, not as big.

[23:15] And so that's still the security for data centers, things like that.

[23:19] But one of the big things now is doing security, like building type of modular buildings,

[23:27] or you can put stuff in it where it can't be penetrated by like modern stuff.

[23:34] So that's one of the big things now and they're doing a prototype of a different type of that for

[23:41] the military if they got like four weeks to get it done and if they get that they think

[23:49] they can get that done to get a contract and they do that and they need 150,000 square

[23:56] foot building and they said hey we'd like to have a prep right here and pace them. So we're

[24:02] looking at that and then they also want the reasons they came to pace and bought the new

[24:09] core building is that EmTech. I really like having EmTech there. So we took my tour of EmTech

[24:18] yesterday and they have lost the need for developers. And so it's just a nice thing to have EmTech

[24:25] here. I like the business resource center. They thought for some prototyping they got built

[24:30] use that. So now it's an exciting business. They have 1700 employees. They figure they're going to have

[24:38] 100 employees in this, send quarter building and, you know, if they do the 150,000 square foot

[24:48] manufacturing place, they'll have another, you know, 150 employees. So it's going to be great,

[24:55] great business. Another thing they do have, too, is they're putting a consortium of, and they

[25:00] brought this one. We have a kind of open house. They bring, they're putting consortium

[25:07] all these different companies that are military to contract with the government. And so they're

[25:13] trying to put this like networking group together. They had like a hundred and fifty companies that

[25:17] are in that and they want to go at 300. So just for having a hotel and when they brought these people

[25:22] and would have been great. And that should help us maybe working now with some of these people

[25:29] who are working with them. Maybe we can track some of those businesses to base into.

[25:35] One person I talked to used to be the acting and showing

[25:41] chiefs of staff for military in Washington under the first Trump administration. It wasn't very long

[25:47] like three months or something, but he worked with a drone company and lost weight against

[25:54] my approach to him. I said, you know, I always thought that drones up a company. They're

[25:58] going to be a big thing and I may work past the point where we're going with drones, but I said,

[26:04] I'd like to see drone headquarters, like a whole bunch of different companies being drone headquarters

[26:11] He said, I thought of that idea, so somebody needs to do that, and I just haven't put together, so I'm going to reach out to him and say, hey, we do something like that.

[26:21] We can be known for some type of advanced manufacturing here. So, anyway, just a lot of contacts there is going to be a fun company to have here in patients.

[26:32] All of these employees that they will have, or they fight on the economic scale at anything

[26:40] level, or are they, where's the wage scale on?

[26:44] I don't know exactly, but one thing I didn't find out is most of them have to have security

[26:50] clearance.

[26:51] So they're probably a little higher on the wage scale.

[26:55] When we met when we first came in out of five, the owner of the company, he was really

[27:02] attracted to Jason because of availability of housing and stuff like that for his employees

[27:06] so they can be closer and things like that so I think they're paying the wage that at least

[27:11] is livable. If they have to have security plans there, I would hope so. I'd live in a Maryland

[27:17] even if you had one of the easiest jobs to get it was still fair and hard to get right like a janitor

[27:25] that one of the cleared spots just takes a year and a half to get cleared and so they make

[27:32] really good money.

[27:34] Now I was talking to the source of the CFO and he said he's a partner with the atom was

[27:39] the one that toured the intact and he said that they already have people looking at basing

[27:44] the move to here it's like they live in an evil mountain or something like that.

[27:49] So just say the headquarters is still in the Springville or they started far as I know I don't

[27:54] I don't know if they're going to have this,

[27:55] be their headquarters or not.

[27:57] When I talk to, when I talk to Adam being,

[28:00] the intent is that their spring bill office

[28:02] is just going to be mostly warehousing

[28:04] and they're moving their headquarters, yeah.

[28:07] So right now, officially, they're still on, I don't know.

[28:11] And they do have a manufacturing place in Colorado,

[28:13] but the hit this contract is going to be too small,

[28:16] so that's why they've been looking

[28:18] at coming here to manufacture.

[28:20] So great opportunity.

[28:22] I'm glad they found this anyway.

[28:26] Any other questions on Centaur?

[28:29] No, there it is.

[28:31] What was that employee?

[28:33] I mean, how many employees have you been here?

[28:36] Can I ask him?

[28:37] Yeah, he said about 100 will be moving in right away into the Centaur building, and if they

[28:42] do manufacture it would be like another 50.

[28:46] And if one of the points he says, yeah, we get some restaurants, they're going to be

[28:50] looking for food.

[28:54] Yeah, tapas.

[28:56] So did I have Mexico?

[28:57] Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[28:59] That's all you do.

[29:01] I had nothing.

[29:02] He tried to eat my rocks.

[29:06] Well, innovation center, well,

[29:08] then I'm interested in coming.

[29:10] I get too much.

[29:12] Well, David Rowley, you know,

[29:15] there'll be higher in the rum or innovation center.

[29:17] It's a fantastic job.

[29:18] the need on vacations miss we otherwise would have income report but I had it right up to

[29:24] now so I'll give you a few highlights what's going on he was there really we can and you weren't

[29:29] I know that I so right now all private offices are rented out we have five of them

[29:39] and then we have eight dedicated desk space the people can run out just the desk space

[29:45] and we have seven of those rented out which is very interesting because as I run around

[29:50] different innovations in business resource centers. They said that they can, they were

[29:56] take and get in rather than that it can work spot.

[30:00] Because they said they just weren't attractive. We've already filled seven or eight. So that's really interesting to what I was hearing seen. They did hire in turn to assist them with the daily operations, because they was really busy. Besides bringing people and showing them around with all equipment, they're thinking, yes, he's had lots of business of he's helping, helping them grow and be successful. So I'm mentored.

[30:31] We

[30:35] have different classes that are going on in the class next week.

[30:41] It's called operations 101, I think.

[30:46] And also the podcaster and Big Bite is quite a bit.

[30:51] Anyway, it's just really exciting what's going on there.

[30:54] We really need more room for this.

[30:58] so they make places or ways that we can expand and really help this grow in

[31:04] hopefully in time this just helps pace and grow and have some of these started

[31:10] businesses growing to like Rock Mountain 8.2.V. or our beefy packaging and grow

[31:16] from the garage into a large business here in the face and you know one of the

[31:21] business those nine hours in there is already ran into like massive

[31:26] land. Any questions on the innovation center? Yeah, I've been there. Y'all

[31:34] to go. Not a question about that, but we were talking to you about this in

[31:39] any electric vehicle. There's only one in the electric charging place in

[31:43] pace, right? And that's down by the innovation center. Is that even a fast

[31:50] It's a class two or whatever they call it.

[31:53] Yeah, so I've been,

[31:54] wouldn't it be nice to have an interest and be the only one?

[32:00] I mean, with the popularity,

[32:02] the increased popularity of electric cars wouldn't it be nice to have one of those someplace strategically located?

[32:10] It would.

[32:12] One of the problems is the capacity right now is pretty.

[32:17] We don't have a lot of capacity to install one of those.

[32:22] We've looked at it several times, the electric supercharger type.

[32:26] When you say we looked at it, they're like a partner asking, because I know Walmart's

[32:31] been aggressively building out its own fleet of chargers now, they've kind of broken off

[32:36] this deal they have with the electrified America.

[32:39] And so, like up in the Salt Lake Valley, almost every Walmart's going to have huge section

[32:45] of chargers now.

[32:46] I was wondering, well, how come peace is not doing it?

[32:48] And I thought, oh, this might be some kind of city electricity

[32:51] when there's something I don't know.

[32:53] And that's the reality of it.

[32:56] So when we get a new power plant online,

[32:59] but right now, in the summer, we just

[33:01] barely made it through the summer.

[33:03] People demand that they have big charging stations

[33:05] and they're charging in the bay.

[33:07] When they are air-conditioned, it's going

[33:09] to be really challenging.

[33:10] I just think it's a strange other issue.

[33:12] And I don't think there's a stupid trigger

[33:14] here between Spanish Quark and Bieber. Spanish Quark is one of us. Is there one in the

[33:24] finance? So as far as economic development, that's a great point. We need to be looking

[33:29] with our power companies to see what we do that way again. Private enterprise do it, not

[33:34] trying to ask. It's expensive itself. We didn't look at doing something down to it.

[33:42] It's

[33:43] I mean, if you may have a few down found people from charge and stay downtown and you know

[33:48] up and meet up around, so even if you had the class two downtown, which don't take a substantial

[33:58] infrastructure cost, that would actually draw people there, because those are used while

[34:05] people are shopping, they use them all the time, you know.

[34:08] That's a lot. That's probably a quarter.

[34:12] Across from science, but across from central bank.

[34:18] Oh, yeah.

[34:20] We can give some of these on that one jellyworm talk about that one.

[34:27] We, um, was that we were able to get a ground through Mountland Association of Governments to hire consultant team to help us do some side funny work and some architecture.

[34:37] and range for three trigger sites in downtown Basin.

[34:41] So we'll work with Tony at 400 North Main Street.

[34:44] Look at doing more of a farmer's market

[34:47] in that location.

[34:49] And then we're keen with large risotto

[34:50] who owns that property at 200 North Main Street.

[34:53] And then also looking at the city on building

[34:55] in downtown the Utah Tricks building.

[34:58] So we're hoping that through those efforts

[35:00] that will give us some more direction

[35:02] on reinvesting in downtown.

[35:05] And we have some great partners

[35:06] for the business owner. So we're hoping that some buildings are built or come out of that,

[35:11] I mean, I'm not really excited about it. So I mean, whether or not we can look on that site

[35:17] in order to see, we could have some electrical there for some EV stations. I mean, I could definitely

[35:22] be part of the conversation. Did anyone, oh sorry, back back to their point, although a lot of people

[35:31] with stations where they can usually go by the way.

[35:36] So people are just sitting outside their cars

[35:39] and being able to keep them on with drives

[35:42] to keep the place somewhere where...

[35:46] Is it some businesses while your car's charging on it?

[35:48] Yeah, it definitely is more convenient

[35:52] to have something nearby, a charger in my experience.

[35:56] I've been playing with it

[35:58] fall over the western area here. If there's something that you can go to, well, charges,

[36:05] don't get food, go buy something. It's actually very convenient.

[36:09] Can I, but then we actually just roadtripped over Labor Day in the evening to Denver.

[36:14] And because there's not an EV at every exit plan, EV charger at every exit, you have to kind of choose

[36:19] where you're going to stop, which means we're putting pop into where we're going to go.

[36:24] And so we stopped at places that had good lunch places and or Walmart and things like that and I'm sure about everyone.

[36:33] People who need those fast chargers are mostly road sugar, right, because they're very home.

[36:39] And then lastly, I've seen some places even I think not around this area, but like California and the east coast, even in the east coast, where it's not sunny.

[36:50] when they've had electric city capacity issues someone with a lot of money has come into like they cover the whole parking lot with solar panels and they do batteries because the cost of batteries is still a big investment upfront but someone like Walmart could do it.

[37:08] So if they ever came asking instead of saying, hey, we don't have any capacity.

[37:12] that you should say.

[37:13] It's telling, but in the meantime,

[37:16] you could do this with battery.

[37:17] It was not through my time.

[37:20] So you're saying the city does have a capacity

[37:23] to put to many, or do you think you saw it here?

[37:27] No, not supercharger capacity, but also distribution.

[37:31] So we have to upgrade some of our distribution lines,

[37:35] like we need some additional substations and things like that,

[37:38] in order to stabilize the grid a little bit more

[37:40] work to allow that to have in all of the areas of our city.

[37:45] So when is your Sean is working on that all the time, big time.

[37:49] Yeah.

[37:50] I mean, you're going to get a new substation now by our station.

[37:53] So that will help that.

[37:55] Yeah, it's not that we need three more.

[37:57] I know.

[37:57] But that will help.

[37:59] Yeah, I don't know.

[38:00] We see more.

[38:02] And it's very expensive.

[38:03] Those stations are not cheap.

[38:06] They're.

[38:06] I'm sure there are a lot. It's two or a million. Yeah, four to five million, or a 15.

[38:19] Should ask you and the Transformers are two to three years.

[38:24] And all of it, some of the other I know because we're building one right now.

[38:28] So the equipment's out because there's like high demand across the country and you're just

[38:33] It's not waiting in line five.

[38:35] Ever since COVID.

[38:37] Some of that is the case.

[38:39] Some of it is just,

[38:41] there's, yeah, it's a long line

[38:43] and it just takes a while.

[38:45] Yeah.

[38:46] I'm sure data centers come in too.

[38:48] They get the data centers.

[38:49] They get priority over everything.

[38:51] They buy data.

[38:56] Okay.

[38:57] Let's do some committee reports.

[39:00] So we are talking about the development event, how about the state plan?

[39:09] Oh, we've been several times as a committee, and we refine our goals and processes to be better.

[39:18] And we've gone through about a half of the plan to execute those goals.

[39:24] We're going to meet in this afternoon, right, Jill?

[39:26] Yes.

[39:31] And hopefully get through the rest of those where we can come back and present it to the

[39:36] entire group.

[39:40] That's the goal.

[39:42] Hopefully next time you can get it to the network.

[39:48] And I have been doing some on the website updating some of that for our websites.

[39:55] So I know how to do that now, and I'm set up to what I can.

[40:00] So I'm going to keep adding to the website.

[40:05] Business retention, Robert, in a really cool event

[40:10] in July, faced to pace them.

[40:14] We had a ton of participation from different businesses,

[40:19] restaurants, mostly.

[40:20] And in pace in the care, all came and kind of collaborated.

[40:24] really good networking and stuff, so I'm super happy about it. I've probably had about

[40:30] 40 people there in that very far.

[40:35] It's good. I have something I think about. It's

[40:41] called custom bid, if what Sam Fagel does. This maybe have something on custom bid, because I've

[40:46] talked to him just sent for that no idea what it was. I don't think any companies do, but

[40:52] Basically, if you need training for your company, they'll do 50% of that cost.

[40:59] And sometimes, if you have somebody, your company that's an expert out, they can pay your

[41:05] person to train your own people, or they can bring experts in too.

[41:12] So it's a really good, I don't know a lot of businesses know about customer pit, but it can

[41:17] work for an old any business or they do have classes that you can tend to if they have

[41:22] a class on Excel or something like that. Sign up for that.

[41:29] Those are the company very talented.

[41:31] No, it's end tax. They have government funding to do that from the state.

[41:35] Kind of like a class.

[41:38] It can be a class. It can be specific training. I mean, it can be specific for any business.

[41:43] You can get any education, submit a receipt to Custom Fifth and they'll pay a reimbursement.

[41:50] Oh, okay.

[41:51] It has to be submitted before you attend the class and that you're going to attend this class.

[41:57] And then you send them the receipt that you paid for it and then they'll reimburse you.

[42:00] And so they run out of money, so they get funded every year.

[42:04] Yeah, I don't want they to run out of money, they have about 1.2 million dollars a year or

[42:10] So, well, what happens to percentage

[42:13] as you get back is that's what it does.

[42:17] So, besides just going to a class,

[42:19] you can have like your whole company

[42:22] can be trained in some area that you need trained in.

[42:26] So, like a company might have a specific training,

[42:30] they need their, they have welders

[42:32] need to learn a different type of welding,

[42:34] they can bring somebody in, teach them that.

[42:36] So, all of them are welders or something like that.

[42:38] So what is it? It could be a really beneficial and it works almost every company.

[42:43] And the refund process is easy. It's not going to be implemented because I sent

[42:48] low two-line form and probably doesn't take it two minutes to get your refund.

[42:55] That's a really good idea. We could have Kelly come and just kind of present all of the information.

[43:01] That'd be cool.

[43:02] So, Mark, we actually talked about the Innovation Center, so our group of different educational

[43:12] organizations went visit at the Innovation Center because they had a role in mentioning

[43:16] he needed help. He took us on a tour, he's been growing really well. He's needing help with

[43:21] students taking people on tours, helping them with the different things that they do there.

[43:28] It was interesting, and Jim, you can chime in too, because he was there.

[43:33] As we toured at McKay, I showed, he's the UV representative, he said they got a business

[43:38] center similar to what's here, but are what we lease space honors cheaper than what they

[43:47] do.

[43:47] And it had more capacity than it would be to go further if they got there.

[43:53] So he adds some interest as well as Julian forward with me both and of course we've got

[44:02] an attack already knows about that. So it was just a great opportunity to share with them,

[44:10] get help them understand what their students can do there to help them through internships or

[44:14] projects or whatever they need so that was neat. And then we also got signed up for

[44:23] or the chamber meeting on the 22nd,

[44:26] we're gonna present there again to all of the businesses,

[44:31] and maybe do a little different format.

[44:33] I think what we talked about is,

[44:36] instead of telling you about ourselves,

[44:37] we're gonna just start out with,

[44:40] if you had some extra project you never got to share

[44:45] with us what that might be,

[44:47] and then we'll do kind of like what we do here

[44:49] is we have people kind of ideas through their phone

[44:51] them and pop it up between me or the screen and then say we've got the solution for you and

[44:56] and it's students that we have here who are important as a...

[45:02] And then share with them a little more about the opportunity center. So that's on the 22nd. Then we're excited to be at the golf tournament again. I think we're at the same place we work the same.

[45:16] We're excited. We're going to be there as well. We'll have giveaways, give cards. Again, I brought that so.

[45:26] Did I miss anything Jim? Lunch here in the banquet, Paul on the 22nd, 11, 30, the line clock.

[45:31] MIMO School District is sponsoring a lunch and a lot of means is providing food.

[45:40] So come get some wings.

[45:44] And if anybody is coming, I need you to email me or register so you can count.

[45:56] So business recruitment, I'll tell you a little bit that's going on there beside retail strategies,

[46:01] which we've talked about, but we've been working a lot with the inland port.

[46:09] We have one business that wants to build and pace them, but the infrastructure there is

[46:18] very expensive. So we have a meme with them this tomorrow, actually, to talk about what made the

[46:25] Inland Port can help them well get infrastructure for the anger on screen.

[46:31] And that's what the whole purpose of the island port is. It's helped us recruit businesses maybe make it cost effective for them to think there. So we're going to look at different strategies for that.

[46:40] Along with the island port, we part of what the base.

[46:44] The good thing about the import is we get we get basically 70% of all the property tax that comes in as as it comes as a business expands or builds because yeah, we have a base what your property tax is, but what it goes above that.

[47:02] Now, we get 70% of that. Well, of course, the end of the port, but we can use it in pace.

[47:07] And we have actually seven properties that we're going to trigger this year.

[47:12] So next year, we'll be getting those perfect taxes that will come into our end of the port account

[47:17] that we can use to recruit businesses or get incentives or help with infrastructure.

[47:24] So, and we are adding three additional properties to the end of for people asked to be in the end of for all it.

[47:35] Woodbury.

[47:37] Both of these both close up and won't property this in this month.

[47:42] They can send in plans, right?

[47:44] do the city and I'm looking at some other things there and one of them they're looking at and I don't know what it is but it is a sit down restaurant that I'm talking to so hopefully something happens there.

[48:01] We have another big box that's looking to face them, inductus and landomers,

[48:08] so lock them up and keep your fingers crossed if we get another big box.

[48:14] I have a question, Brian.

[48:17] And I'm not saying this to the spirit of John Brook.

[48:21] But that area down there doesn't really have the same research committee

[48:27] are you doing the same animal analytics down there at that area?

[48:32] Or what are they, how they are?

[48:34] Yeah.

[48:36] Back, we'd like Woodbury and Meetwood down the maze.

[48:39] They like to do that.

[48:41] So they can do what they do.

[48:45] But we have lots of other places that don't have that kind of building.

[48:49] Especially like Red Bridge.

[48:51] They don't have the capability to really go out

[48:55] track businesses to their retail, to their services. And so people like that can really help.

[49:02] I know the property just east of 7-11 or south of 7-11. You know, they

[49:11] want to look old. The other is in California that they can really help them. So,

[49:17] and all the other businesses, even that were fairly big, or like Southern, I don't know if you know

[49:23] They mentioned southern farms.

[49:25] You probably don't know what it is, but at the Benjamin Exit,

[49:29] this group of investors, about 500 acres,

[49:33] and they want to annex into the basin,

[49:35] there's about 60 acres of retail there,

[49:38] some industrial, a lot of housing.

[49:41] So they were happy to meet with them.

[49:45] So a lot of these landowners,

[49:47] the hotel site, were happy to meet with them.

[49:49] They gave me some help.

[49:50] So, so they're excited to have that opportunity to help them in the church, ask a lot of questions to, you know, with all land they own around the new interchange they came and they ask a lot of questions how that they can help.

[50:06] So I think if there is some benefit there, but like you said, yeah, Woodbury, they're going to do the whole thing.

[50:11] Okay, but they can sell, they can recommend it.

[50:17] Oh, yeah.

[50:17] To work there.

[50:18] Oh, yeah.

[50:18] For sure.

[50:19] Yeah.

[50:20] And if they find somebody, we will be set up to work there, you know.

[50:25] What Mary's not going to say no.

[50:28] That's a good question.

[50:29] I'm going to see.

[50:33] As far as business.

[50:34] Oh, you're just another thing about the business that I'm patient.

[50:38] So since beginning of the year, we've had 91 new businesses registered in business license and based on it.

[50:52] 49 of those are home occupancy, home business, and 28 were brick and mortar.

[51:03] So, you can see one reason why we have the innovation center to help these people with home

[51:08] occupations become bigger and some of them will never be out there, but some of them could

[51:12] have that opportunity.

[51:15] Then, by the closing and these lag a little bit because some people don't let us know

[51:22] anything like that, but it's been only 11.

[51:24] business clothes and that sinker. So 91 new ones love clothes. So we're adding businesses

[51:33] based on the endos for home-based unit of the clothes ones for four and six for a bigger

[51:40] group.

[51:47] That's all I had about the business agreement.

[51:54] Anything, Robert Jill, going on,

[51:58] you think of other things in the city report?

[52:04] You should get down to them. Oh, got down. I missed

[52:07] down to that. That's all right. I just had a question if we're getting a wrap up, but

[52:14] We're working a lot with the state of the Georgia Transformation Office, just so you're

[52:21] aware of the downtown area, there's grants available, and so there's a business owner

[52:32] downtown who's in the city, and I say, hey, we need all help on this, we've got to get them

[52:40] in before the 18th, the 5th, I think the fans, I mean, it's limited, but we can help them

[52:49] for that. But my question was, have they been invited to the government to state the

[52:56] store that there's none of us? If not, I can write some, I know, there's a couple golfers.

[53:06] We have not, would that be a good fit to offer in the off-beaten coat?

[53:13] Kind of.

[53:14] I've been on it for a lot of very cool, and I'm saying, yeah, I'm just, and by the way,

[53:19] I haven't bring a team, but let's look and see where we are next week or so.

[53:23] Yes.

[53:24] Yeah.

[53:24] They aren't going to actually bring businesses here, but yeah, they're part of what we're trying to do in the downtown.

[53:29] I won't, I won't invite you yet. I just have a call that I'll put from later on later on later on.

[53:35] Yeah. Anyway, the other update.

[53:40] No, we, we,

[53:44] uh, so I'm trying to recruit volunteers to say.

[53:48] I know there's some work pillars that you come up with vitality.

[53:52] Designed organization and promotion.

[53:56] right now our director, Ronda, is doing great, but we're trying to recruit for that.

[54:02] We're trying to support others, but that's kind of where we're headed towards right now.

[54:11] but what is considered down there's it just mainstream or is it no so so I mean you type

[54:20] it in mainstream is kind of the center and then of course a few blocks so there's

[54:26] residences there's businesses but it goes this way and that way out and I'm happy to bring in

[54:37] And that that that we gave to the State Historic Preservation Office.

[54:42] But I mean, and I was shown in downtown.

[54:45] I was curious, you know, yeah, what's your Azure tool at the East 100?

[54:52] Yeah, I'm pretty sure you are.

[54:54] The reason I asked is, I know I've got a buddy who works for downtown Provo.

[54:59] And they got some grants to do huge murals paid for those.

[55:04] And I always thought this time I'd be building would be a great spot for one.

[55:07] I don't want to get bored.

[55:09] I probably had an expense.

[55:11] And I was like, oh, that might be cool.

[55:13] That's how I was.

[55:14] It's just an idea.

[55:15] I had, like, how did you have it?

[55:17] Yeah.

[55:17] Let's talk about second effort.

[55:19] Yeah.

[55:19] Well, I think one way to do that is for when we did it on the side of the U.S., we got

[55:26] a little bit of a part for the ramps.

[55:28] We'll do that so that we can go.

[55:31] I was mad at something like the Nashville Angelings, not the same thing, but something like that

[55:37] that drives people in.

[55:39] Like, hey, let's walk over here a block from downtown and take a picture of kind of whatever

[55:43] it might be.

[55:45] Oh, well done.

[55:46] Yeah.

[55:47] So when you say that I was in Destin, Florida and my daughter owned us, I don't know, 40 minutes

[55:54] down the road, we go get a picture in front of the residence wall.

[55:59] And I had different things around it to do, but the main goal was to get a picture of this.

[56:05] And I think that's the pace.

[56:09] Yeah, it's something like that.

[56:10] I don't know if I could put it on something.

[56:12] The hunger adventure is out there.

[56:14] Some of the same recipes.

[56:17] It's like, well, that's a giant, very good source of food.

[56:20] Yeah, I'll be coming up here in a few months.

[56:21] So, and a couple of stores that you have upgraded, look great, the balance house, the salon,

[56:28] furniture, I mean, I think they have a really great time, and I think just that we are working

[56:35] on as an ordinance for downtown, is to get the right mix of businesses down there, experience

[56:42] based businesses.

[56:43] So we're working on that to be an ordinance for the downtown for now, I don't know.

[56:50] Okay.

[56:50] Okay, anything else anybody wants to bring up?

[56:57] Thank you so much, it's been a great committee.

[57:03] Very cord, and then we have great committees.

[57:05] So I think we're getting a lot done and pasted,

[57:07] and we're excited about what's happening.

[57:09] So thanks for all your support and we'll meet again next month

[57:14] and then we'll find a retreat in January, some of that.

[57:18] Okay, thank you.

[57:21] We'll show you the gears.

[57:22] Well, I learned that the Rock and Tech is a project that actually

[57:26] is about to be soldered.

[57:27] Let's go below.

[57:28] Sure.

[57:29] I can't.

[57:30] I can't.

[57:31] I can't.

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