Good afternoon, everybody.

I want to welcome you to the March 22nd, 2018 meeting of the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee.

Let the record reflect that Vice Chair Kersey and Councilmember Bree are present.

Council Member Alvarez is absent.

Also in attendance today are Deputy City Attorney Daphne Scogan, uh Elise Lowe and Patrick Pateller from the Mayor's Office, Jeff Kawar from the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst, and our committee consultant, Lucas O'Connor.

We will begin today with the approval of the minutes.

The committee records of action from February 22nd, 2018 will be approved by unanimous consent unless pulled for discussion.

Seeing none, they are so adopted.

Next, we will have non-agenda public comment, an opportunity for members of the public to speak on any item under the subject matter jurisdiction of this committee.

Do we have any non-agenda No non-agenda comments today?

So with that, are there any committee member comments?

Seeing none, moving right along, is there any city attorney, mayoral, or IBA comments?

Well, then we're heading straight on to the discussion agenda.

We'll begin promptly with item number one, the fiscal year two thousand nineteen business improvement district budgets, our annual appropriations process.

About five minutes.

You can see the map here that are individually managed by 17 nonprofit business associations.

The bid a bid provides business area merchants with the resources to develop marketing campaigns, increase awareness, and enhance public improvement projects in partnership with the city.

These activities range from staging special events such as restaurant walks, block parties, art fairs, and weekly farmers' markets, to develop public relations and marketing materials.

Bid associations also market their districts to potential businesses in an effort to reduce vacancies, provide a varied mixture of businesses, and strengthen the bid.

Today we are requesting your approval to move the fiscal year 2019 bid budget appropriation package to the full city council for the following bids shown here on the uh slide.

The process at Council will require two separate hearing dates.

First, City Council is requested to adopt a resolution appointing a nonprofit business association for each bid to advise the city council on the bid budget assessment, improvements, and activities.

Approve management agreements with bid associations to implement activities described in the approved bid budget.

Adopt a resolution approving the bid budget reports, declare city council's intention to levy and collect annual assessments, and set the time for legally required public hearing.

The second meeting is the public hearing for receipt of testimony on the assessments.

During this meeting, City Council is requested to adopt a resolution confirming the annual bid budget reports and the levying and collection of annual assessments for each bid, authorizing the CFO to appropriate transfer and expend assessment revenues for each bid, and authorize the mayor to execute a bid management agreement with nonprofit associations for the management of each bid.

We have one uh new item to note this year, and that is in response to the fiscal year 2016 Office of the City Auditors Performance Audit of the City's bid program.

Starting um with this coming year, fiscal year 2019, bid managers will be required to provide annual metrics to evaluate bid performance.

Economic development department staff have worked with bid managers to develop metrics that incorporate bid budget priorities that will be a part of this annual bid reporting process.

Metrics were developed after multiple meetings with bid managers and city staff.

Some performance metrics are provided by bids, and others are provided by city staff.

For your information, there's a breakdown here of which metrics are provided by bids and by city staff, and a draft of those performance metrics for fiscal year 2017 were provided to you at the start of this meeting.

Final metrics will be available at the first city council hearing on this on this subject on April 17th.

With that, we are requesting approval to forward the fiscal year 2019 bid appropriation package to City Council to begin the annual appropriation process outlined here.

And we are available to answer any questions.

Thank you for the presentation.

We'll turn to members of the public.

And first we will have Denny Knox with the Ocean Main Street Business Association.

Ah, does not wish to speak.

Ah, wait, none of y'all wish to speak.

Really, we don't want to hear about the great things going on in the community.

Well, uh, do want to register and thank the uh following business leaders for coming down here to uh register their support on this item.

Denny Knox from the Ocean Beach Main Street Association, Sheila Fortune from the La Jolla Village Merchants, Susan McNeil Schreyer from Mission Hills BID, Enrique Gondarillo, is it, from the City Heights Business Association, Sonny Lee from the Old Town Chamber of Commerce.

Representatives from the East Village Association, is that Dora?

Do I see you out there?

There you are.

And Michael Trimble from the Gaslam Quarters Association.

Thank you all for your support on this item.

Uh turning to committee member comments.

We'll start with uh Councilmember Breed.

Uh first of all, thank you for coming to my office the other day and giving us a detailed report.

And I appreciate the work that the uh bids do in helping our small businesses.

I did have one question that day on the report for La Jolla, it had shown that I think about 1,700 jobs had been lost in one year, and I was we were very confused by that number.

So perhaps there could be clarification.

Absolutely.

Um and Sheila Fortune is here from the La Jolla Village Merchants Association, and um I think She can you just Sheila can come up and discuss that item.

Great.

Thank you.

There was a typo.

So the number of jobs uh were 5979, a loss of 39 jobs with a net of 5940.