The Economic and Workforce Development Committee met on September 24, 2025, from 2:03 PM to 3:29 PM. The meeting covered four agenda items: a review of the procurement process, establishment of a working group for Spain flight connectivity and World Cup base camp, amendments to the Small Business Advisory Commission composition, and a briefing on the economic development strategic framework refresh. All action items were approved unanimously.
Okay, good morning everyone. The time is now 2.03 p.m. on September 24th, 2025, and the meeting of the Economic and Workforce Development Committee is now called to order. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councilmember Galaban. Councilmember Spears. Chair Viegeran. Here. Chair, we have quorum. All right. The first item on the agenda is approval of the minutes. Are there any corrections to the minutes? Can I get a motion and a second to approve the minutes? Can I get a second? Second. We've got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion carries. Madam Clerk, are there any citizens signed up to speak on the item for public comment? No, Chair, we have no public comment. Great. Okay, so the remaining agenda items, uh, some are for action. We've got two for action, and I think two for briefing. So we're gonna start with item number two is a review of the procurement process. And is there a staff presentation? Great. Troy, the floor is all yours. Thank you, Chair. And uh good afternoon, Chair and members of the committee. My name's Troy Elliott. I'm the chief financial officer. And today, you know, as the chair mentioned, we'll be talking a little bit about the procurement process and our proposal for conducting a review. Before moving into the presentation, just to give you a little bit of context. Um, I've been doing procurement for about 14 years now. I started on October 1st of 2011, and I remember that day very well because Riverview Building actually caught on fire and burned down. And um that was my first day on the job as in conducting procurement. Um why that's important is purchasing and finance used to be two separate departments, and on that day we came together as one department. Sheryl Scully actually um asked me if I had take over procurement. I said yes. I was a little to be honest, I was a little naive about purchasing. I always thought that purchasing something that's very simple. You uh you buy something. Um I don't think that could be further from the truth. It's highly regulated depending on the type of procurement that you're conducting by state statute. We also have a rigorous procurement process in place to make sure that it's a fair fair process, and everybody gets uh, I guess a bite at the apple, so to speak, and that we have solid outcomes at the end that we're presenting to you as city council. We have about a little less than 80 people in the procurement division. It's led by Anhelicum Mata, our assistant finance director over here. Jennifer Johnson, Charisma Sparza, Jonathan Miranda, and Laura Sombrano.