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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the April 20th meeting of the Bozeman Community Development Board.

The community development board is a seven-member citizen advisory board comprised of volunteers appointed by the city commission that fulfills the requirements of state law.

We meet twice per month to make recommendations regarding land use regulations to the Bozeman City Commission.

Final decisions are typically not made here tonight.

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Anything from the board.

Aye.

Chair Lloyd.

Aye.

Member Bonnet.

Aye.

Okay.

That um item passes 7-0.

Thank you.

Next up, consent items.

Tonight's agenda.

I don't think we have any consent items tonight.

No.

Okay.

Item F on the agenda, special presentations, an overview of the economic development strategy issue plan.

Mr.

Fontenau.

Good evening.

Chairman Lloyd, good to see you.

Good evening.

Good evening, community development board and city staff.

Mayor Morrison, my name is Britt Fontenau.

It's a pleasure to be here tonight.

Thank you for allowing me a few minutes to talk a little bit about our economic development department, the work that we do, and the intersection of our work with yours.

Let's see, if you give me just a moment, I'll cue up the presentation here.

All right.

So this is uh our uh my run of show for tonight, my my the order of operations, if you will, how we're gonna go through our my work this evening.

We'll start with a little bit about the intersection that I mentioned earlier, some of our priorities, how we are structured in our department, who our staff are and our experience, our duties and responsibilities, what plans, uh adopted plans and guiding documents we we refer to, our boards, um, finally the economic vitality uh work plan for the next two years, the board work plan, and then the strategy.

So those are the areas that I'll be uh touching on this evening.

Please feel free to interrupt if you have questions.

Uh otherwise I'll be happy to take them at the end.

All right.

So I wanted to start, and I I did I put a few bits of information on your on your dais, and uh, Mr.

Saunders forwarded you uh some other documents earlier uh today or yet or last week.

The documents that you have uh should have in your possession are our economic vitality strategy and our yearly market report that we uh produce each year.

Um and so on your on the dais, I also passed out essentially a copy of a pages from the community um the 2025 community plan and then a uh an update on where we are in our implementation of the 2023 economic vitality strategy.

I also place copies of all these documents in the rear of the room for the for the public.

But the first thing I wanted to talk a little bit about was some of the intersections between the work that we do and um and the work that you do.

And so up on the screen, just for illustrative purposes, I have the page from the community plan that talks about that.

It's titled It's theme number six, a city powered by its creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial economy.

So sorry about that.

Uh so the things I wanted to touch on are some of the uh some of the areas of intersection.

Like for example, you know, when we go through those goals, uh goal EE number one, supporting the goals and objectives outlined in the boson's economic development strategy.

So that's very clear, there that clear intersection between the two guiding documents.