SUMMARY MINUTES OF DINNER MEETING

Monday, June 27, 2005 Shoreline Conference Center

6:00 p.m. Highlander Room

PRESENT: Mayor Hansen, Councilmembers Chang, Fimia, Grace, Gustafson and Ransom

ABSENT: Deputy Mayor Jepsen

STAFF: Bob Olander, Deputy City Manager; Julie Modrzejewski, Assistant City Manager; Joyce Nichols, Communications and Intergovernmental Relations Director; and Tom Boydell, Economic Development Manager

Mayor Hansen called the meeting to order at 6:25 p.m.

Tom Boydell, Economic Development Manager, described the proposed composition of the Economic Development Task Force. This issue was discussed by the City Council at its retreat and a process was agreed upon for establishing the task force, the charter and next steps.

The proposed charter includes:

Review and discussion of the existing Economic Development Strategy as presented in the June 20 memo;
Recommending changes or additions to the goals and strategies;
Recommending priorities;
Discussion of action steps; and
Recommending ways to measure results.

Council discussed the proposed composition of the task force. As suggested at the retreat, six members were proposed to be appointed by various community organizations and six individuals are to be selected by the City Manager. The six individuals should include one person from the environmental technologies or environmental industries area of expertise; others should represent banking, small and/or large businesses, developers, real estate experts, and so forth.

Mr. Boydell reviewed the proposed nominees with the Council. Councilmembers agreed to appoint six individuals suggested from the following groups: Chamber of Commerce (Rick Stephens), Forward Shoreline (Rich Matthews), Shoreline Community College (Vice President of Workforce Development), Shoreline School Board (Jim Leigh), Planning Commission (Don Sands) and Council of Neighborhoods (Dale Wright).

Councilmember Grace highlighted the need for a health care professional.

Councilmember Ransom suggested naming a representative of the gambling industry and recommended a member of the Mitchell family, who owns the largest amount of land and two mini-casinos on Aurora Avenue. Council agreed to name William Hubbell, general manager of Club Hollywood and son-in-law of the Mitchell family.

Several Councilmembers suggested naming Sunny Kim, executive director of the Korean Chamber of Commerce, as an additional member.

Councilmember Fimia said she would prefer no members be appointed who are involved in City politics.

Council also said that staff should ask a representative of the auto industry, Chuck Olsen, to participate if Mr. Hubbell is unable to do so.

Council then discussed the remaining appointees and agreed on the following eight individuals:

Mike Nelson, Environmental technologies/solar
Susie Wirth, owner of Sweet Basil’s/neighborhood business
Larry Steele, owner of Aurora Rents
Ken Noreen, real estate
Bill Hubbell, property owner and gambling
Kevin Fox, Bank of America
Sunny Kim, Korean-American Chamber of Commerce
Alan Anderson, executive of City Bank (Snohomish County), retired

It was agreed that the next step is for Mr. Boydell to confirm the task force membership and convene the group so that it can move forward as soon as possible.

Mayor Hansen adjourned the meeting at 7:00 p.m.

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Joyce Nichols, Director of Communications and Intergovernmental Relations