HomeMy WebLinkAboutclosed_caption10:01:39 Alright. Well, I see Tara has joined us as well, so we're just missing Kevin right now, so respect for everyone's time, and only have 1Â h and quite a few things to get to.
I will call with.
10:01:50 Now I will call this special meeting of the lodging Tax Advisory Committee to order. Appreciate people being here today? Um! And why don't we kick right off as a special meeting.
We can't adjust this agenda, so we'll open, as we always do, with a public comment period. So anything on the agenda that folks from the public would like to comment on. We would love
to hear your thoughts up to 3Â min, so we don't have anyone. Well, unless we'll do.
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10:02:28 Okay.
10:02:29 I'll make one more call for public comment.
10:02:35 Okay. Seeing no public comment, I will close the public comment period and ask if the lodging Tax Advisory Committee had a time to Review. The minutes from the June 11th meeting.
10:02:48 Any changes, corrections or additions needed.
10:02:57 Try. Diane would.
10:02:57 I'll move.
10:02:59 I'll move to accept the minutes.
10:03:01 Okay, it's been moved to accept the minutes from June 11.th
10:03:05 Yeah, I'll second that.
10:03:06 Any seconds. Okay, all in favor of approving the minutes as presented for June 11th indicate by saying, Hi.
10:03:14 Aye.
10:03:17 Any opposed.
10:03:20 Alright! The ayes have it unanimously.
10:03:22 And we will move on minutes here.
10:03:26 No, we didn't, I think. Uh, Diana, that was a that was an eye as well, just a little bit behind.
10:03:33 Yeah.
10:03:34 Don't, don't! It's alright you can. I see? I see you're driving? We don't wanna.
10:03:39 Yeah.
10:03:37 Yeah, that was a that was a yes.
10:03:40 Okay. Thank you.
10:03:44 Um. Okay, uh, great. Well, we're gonna start with a presentation of the Olympic Peninsula tourism plan from Marsha and Debbie. You should have had the kind of the the overview
in your packet, and I'll I'll um.
10:03:57 Maybe we should uh.
10:03:58 Have a quick round of introductions. I'm not sure if everyone here knows each other. So let's do a quick round before we we hand it off.
10:04:04 Um. I'm Greg, brother, the the chair and Commissioner, and I'll just call folks as I see him 1st in L tech and our guests. Uh Tara, can you say? Hi!
10:04:14 Yeah. Hi, I'm Tara Mccauley. I'm the executive director of the Jefferson County Historical Society.
10:04:19 Thanks for being here, Amy.
10:04:22 Hey, Abby Neil? I'm the general manager over at the Clay bunch.
10:04:27 Okay. And I'm gonna introduce Diana, because oh, go ahead. If you go ahead.
10:04:31 Diane Diana, smiling. President Uh, representing the resort of Fort Ludlow.
10:04:36 Right, and we're missing one member uh Kevin Wooly from the quilting Historical Museum. Hopefully, he is able to join us.
10:04:42 But um with that will uh.
10:04:45 I guess. Why don't we, Belinda? You wanna say Hi! In the room? Hi! My name is Belinda.
10:04:53 Great thanks for being here to present to us, and then I'll pass over to Marsha and Debbie, and maybe you can quickly introduce yourselves. And then, uh, just continue with
the overview of the strategic plan.
10:05:03 Master, plan excuse me.
10:05:07 Sure, Marsha Massey, I'm the executive director for the Olympic Peninsula visitor, bureau, Tourism Commission.
10:05:16 You're muted.
10:05:18 Debbie.
10:05:19 There you go!
10:05:20 Thank you. Good morning. I'm Debbie Wardrop. I'm the project manager for this particular project from the Olympic Peninsula uh Visitor Bureau and um here to support Marsha in
that role.
10:05:36 Right, and I see Kevin's joined us. Kevin, can you say? Hi! And what the organization you represent.
10:05:43 Hi! Um! I'm here, or.
10:05:46 Representing the Ltc, uh.
10:05:49 Um. But anyway, the I'm also part of the quilting Historical Museum.
10:05:55 Thanks for being here, Kevin. Alright! Take it away, Marsha.
10:05:59 Alright and adl! Shall I go ahead and share my screen?
10:06:03 Yes, please.
10:06:05 See how this.
10:06:08 Works.
10:06:12 Alright!
10:06:14 That's good.
10:06:14 Is, that.
10:06:15 Visible.
10:06:16 We're we're still seeing your slides on the left, but I don't know if you can hit the presentation right.
10:06:23 I can.
10:06:24 Excellent.
10:06:24 Is that better?
10:06:25 Okay, great. Well, thank you for having us here. Um.
10:06:30 In respect to the fact that several folks.
10:06:32 Have been a part of this process, and we're.
10:06:34 Um.
10:06:36 At this tourism summit. We're gonna sort of go through it at a 30,000 foot level, but we'll certainly be prepared to.
10:06:42 Answer any questions that that we can. So we're going to do.
10:06:45 Um a recap of the tourism, master plan, and then again we'll be.
10:06:51 Available to answer any questions.
10:06:54 Um 1st and foremost. This kicked off this initially kicked off before Covid.
10:07:00 Ah! With the column County Lte wanting to.
10:07:04 Do a forward looking 5 Year Plan in essence. Covid.
10:07:08 Set everything aside for a little bit.
10:07:09 And it was revisited after.
10:07:11 Uh! We all got back on our feet.
10:07:14 And felt like so much had changed during uh the time the types of visitors we had were changing, and we thought it really was important.
10:07:23 To.
10:07:24 Have a roadmap, a guy that could.
10:07:28 Collectively. We could all get on board with help develop.
10:07:31 And commit to.
10:07:33 And that was the genesis of developing this. Um, 5 year tourism, master Plan.
10:07:39 Uh core to the whole conversation is the fact that.
10:07:42 We believe the Olympic peninsula as a destination is a 4 seasons destination.
10:07:48 Uh, we know that we're heavily popular in the summer.
10:07:51 And that's both a blessing and a curse sometimes. But we wanted people to understand and really work towards communicating.
10:07:59 The all season aspect of the Olympic peninsula. For a number of reasons Debbie will touch on some of those as well.
10:08:05 But.
10:08:07 It's not sustainable from an economic standpoint on many levels. For us to just be busy.
10:08:12 3 or 4 months out of the year, and.
10:08:14 Dead in the water and the rest of the time, so.
10:08:16 We believe we are 4 seasons destination, and our goal is to communicate that and even out the.
10:08:22 Peaks and valleys.
10:08:25 So the purpose of the tourism master Plan, as stated in the plan.
10:08:30 Is to create a more consistent, sustainable.
10:08:33 And vibrant year round. Visitor, economy.
10:08:36 With an emphasis on increasing visitor spending in the spring.
10:08:40 Fall and winter.
10:08:44 It was a large group that came together. This, this the genesis of this was with Column county, but they quickly reached out to.
10:08:51 Jefferson County, the Jefferson County, Ltec. Got on board with this the Port Angeles.
10:08:57 Ltec got on board with this and other communities as they could. So our leadership team that guided this process.
10:09:05 Through all of it.
10:09:06 Uh was quite extensive, and reach all across primarily the North Olympic Peninsula. You can see.
10:09:13 The various um.
10:09:14 People there. Greg was a part of the initial concepting. Heidi was Heidi. Eisenhower was uh the Jefferson County Commissioner. That was.
10:09:23 Active. In the year we were developing this plan.
10:09:27 So, just.
10:09:27 Very high level economic impacts of tourism. Uh, a 2022 national park study.
10:09:35 Noted that the Olympic Peninsula National Park is responsible for about 320 million dollars.
10:09:42 In economic impact to our area.
10:09:46 Ah, further study, different study tourism, economics does a study for the State of Washington every year. It's done by county, and I think some of you have probably seen the
county breakouts on this.
10:09:59 But the most recent study, which was for 2023.
10:10:03 Noted that the overall.
10:10:05 The overall Olympic Peninsula, and in this case we've combined 4 counties. Jefferson and Grace Harbor.
10:10:13 Is responsible for.
10:10:15 979 million dollars in visitor impact visit. That's direct visitor spending.
10:10:22 It's not broken down below the county level.
10:10:27 So.
10:10:28 Just for some quick background. So you know, we didn't just sit in a room and make all this stuff up.
10:10:33 Uh over the course of a year. We had quite a bit of.
10:10:37 Input on developing this plan.
10:10:39 We started out with the destination next stakeholder assessment.
10:10:44 That was a very extensive.
10:10:47 Survey that was sent out to primarily people in the industry or in the community, or.
10:10:53 That um!
10:10:54 Municipal levels that.
10:10:57 Knew about the industry had insight into the industry. So that was sort of the baseline of where are we.
10:11:03 In terms of our development.
10:11:04 We also had 10 stakeholder focus groups.
10:11:08 So these were groups by.
10:11:11 Lodging, by arts and culture, by food and beverage and restaurant sort of those kind of groupings, and they would have.
10:11:19 From 5 to 25 people that participated in these focus group sessions.
10:11:25 Um.
10:11:25 We also interviewed individually about 50 different stakeholders, folks that were either not able to participate in one of the focus groups, or maybe had a particular.
10:11:35 Um.
10:11:38 Viewpoint on on tourism possibilities for the Olympic Peninsula.
10:11:43 There were 4 resident town halls, one in Port Townsend.
10:11:47 One in Squam, one in Port Angeles, and one in forks.
10:11:51 And there was a very successful resident sentiment survey.
10:11:55 That was sent out. This was um.
10:11:58 An online survey that was sent.
10:12:00 To reach to everyone that lived on the Peninsula as best we could.
10:12:03 When we first.st
10:12:05 Started it.
10:12:06 Um, we said. Well, we'll hope we'll hope we've got a hundred or sorry. We'll hope we'll get 500 responses.
10:12:12 And Debbie said, Well, what's the stretch goal.
10:12:15 And uh, our consultant said the stretch goal is probably 1,000, and I'm thinking.
10:12:20 I don't think I get a thousand people on the Peninsula to take a survey, but good luck.
10:12:25 And we got 1,400. So.
10:12:27 Always bet on Debbie's numbers.
10:12:30 Um.
10:12:31 We also had public private planning review, and then a visioning workshop. So there were a lot of steps in the process.
10:12:39 As this information came together, and then various parts of the information were vetted and tested.
10:12:45 Um.
10:12:47 Just one element of the resident survey. One of the questions we asked in the resident survey was.
10:12:53 How would you rate the importance of tourism.
10:12:58 On, the.
10:12:58 Olympic Peninsula, economy.
10:13:01 And.
10:13:02 As you can see here, 90% of the residents said that tourism is an important or extremely important element for our.
10:13:12 Local economy.
10:13:13 Which is fantastic. We're not sure about those other 10% of the folks. But.
10:13:17 Um, 90% of the folks feel that it is definitely an important aspect of our economy.
10:13:24 And then, lastly, we just uh. We enjoyed sharing this slide as we went along in the town halls.
10:13:30 Ah, we did some live interaction about asking the people in the town halls. What do you love about living on the Peninsula? This is an aggregate of the 4 Town Hall surveys,
but.
10:13:41 I think we can all identify with the words that the the bigger the word, the bolder the word, the more times that was used, so.
10:13:49 Peaceful, beautiful, remote, natural.
10:13:54 Community. Lots of good, positive things there about what we all love and what we hope to share with visitors that are coming.
10:14:01 Uh, you'll see, you know. Other words in their wet, rural.
10:14:06 Um.
10:14:06 That kind of thing, too, but overall very positive.
10:14:11 So out of this.
10:14:14 12 key out of all the different.
10:14:17 Data, gathering aspects that we had.
10:14:20 There were 12 key takeaways, that kind of percolated over and over to the top.
10:14:24 And that informed.
10:14:27 The following work. So I'm gonna turn it over to Debbie to let her.
10:14:30 Kind of start with those 12 key takeaways and then drill down to what we're actually working on.
10:14:36 Thank you, Marsha. So.
10:14:39 What we heard in all of that different data collection.
10:14:45 We're the following.
10:14:46 Um.
10:14:47 Year-round vibrancy is Job one.
10:14:51 We're more than just a park.
10:14:54 Create an expanded narrative about the Olympic peninsula.
10:14:59 Address perceived remoteness.
10:15:03 Rally everyone around one destination brand.
10:15:06 I wanna talk about that one just for a second, because it continues to come up in a lot of conversations.
10:15:13 What that means is.
10:15:16 We are promoting the Olympic peninsula. We live on the Olympic peninsula.
10:15:22 Our visitors are coming to the Olympic peninsula. Once they get.
10:15:27 To that Olympic peninsula, they will have.
10:15:29 A dev, diverse.
10:15:32 Uh number of opportunities.
10:15:33 And unique and distinctive opportunities. Whether it's a seaport town in Port Townsend or.
10:15:40 Uh experiencing the rainforest uh in forks.
10:15:45 So.
10:15:46 But we all have to say the same thing. We all have to say the Olympic Peninsula.
10:15:52 90% of locals believe. Tourism is important or very important. As Marsha just pointed out in that previous slide.
10:16:00 That we develop lifestyle experiences beyond outdoor recreation.
10:16:07 There is significant interest in tribal tourism, development.
10:16:12 Infrastructure and amenity. Upgrades are critical.
10:16:16 More transportation options are needed for locals and visitors.
10:16:21 The vast majority of visitors love Washington. State ferries.
10:16:25 You know we all belly ache about them.
10:16:28 Quite often, but the visitors have a different idea about that.
10:16:33 And that workforce housing and development must be addressed holistically.
10:16:40 So those were the big takeaways, and from that.
10:16:45 We looked at what could be the 5 top long term impacts of this work that we're doing.
10:16:53 The 1st one is that we will have a robust 4 season visitor economy.
10:17:01 That we will have global brand recognition.
10:17:05 That tourism provides economic opportunity for all.
10:17:12 We improve tribal tourism, collaboration.
10:17:15 And that we have reliable public and private transportation.
10:17:22 Those are pretty big uh overarching long-term impacts.
10:17:27 Uh that we that we heard, and that we sort of digested into um.
10:17:33 Something that seems.
10:17:35 Manageable that we can actually do something about all of this.
10:17:38 And just a reminder here, Debbie, as we keep telling people it's a 5 Year Plan.
10:17:45 Yes, it's a 5 year plan. It's not gonna happen overnight. Um, although there is a lot happening. Um. And so right now, um, I'm gonna share with you this, the 5 short term priorities
and share with you that we are making enormous progress on each of these.
10:18:03 By the dedicated leadership team. Um.
10:18:08 They? Uh. In fact, I have 2 calls today, another one on Monday. And uh, we're gonna be presenting uh an update a status of these at the August optic meeting.
10:18:19 And these short term priorities. I call them the low hanging fruit. Uh! What can we do? Um.
10:18:27 To to cease.
10:18:28 To see something happen and not let this just sit on a shelf.
10:18:32 So the 1st one is promoting. Why, the difference is worth the distance.
10:18:38 The second one is promote, how the Olympic peninsula is more than a park.
10:18:44 Promote staycations to increase spring, fall, and winter business.
10:18:50 Make visitors feel more welcome with new signage, and branding.
10:18:54 And we're working. Um, actually, we have a.
10:18:58 A whole group working on that particular first.st
10:19:03 Big task, I call it, which is signage that we hope to have at the.
10:19:10 At the new roundabout at the Hood Canal Bridge.
10:19:14 And improve mobility options to help support local businesses.
10:19:19 So those are the 5 short term priorities. And that's what we're working on in a major way right now.
10:19:30 So.
10:19:32 Um.
10:19:35 We we also.
10:19:36 Have within the Master plan other goals and priorities, and there are a few that we are working on.
10:19:45 Right now uh, to review the organizational structure of this destination management group.
10:19:51 So that we improve efficiencies.
10:19:54 We consider additional funding models.
10:19:58 And we're going to create 2 new positions. One is.
10:20:03 To find new business. We have actually a job description. We've had several meetings about this, both with the lodging industry uh across the peninsula, and uh various venues.
10:20:18 So that's a position that will hopefully be on board by early 2025.
10:20:25 And the other one is content development to take all of these ideas and things that we have and and promote them. It's gonna take additional.
10:20:35 Uh Support.
10:20:37 A position to um.
10:20:39 To to really look at.
10:20:42 Uh, not just social media, but all of our content.
10:20:45 Uh, whether that's itineraries or.
10:20:48 Uh, you know other things that will.
10:20:53 Help! Tell the story.
10:20:58 So that's.
10:20:59 That's the high level conversation about the master plan. We're prepared to answer any questions or to dig deeper. If you want to know more about any of that.
10:21:10 So thank you for your time today, and for allowing us to be here.
10:21:14 Thanks so much, Debbie. Thank you. Marsha.
10:21:17 Questions where Marsha or Debbie.
10:21:21 I'll start off with one. I the 2 new positions that you're talking about are the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau.
10:21:27 Yes.
10:21:29 Yes, because that is the organizational structure right now.
10:21:32 Mm-hmm.
10:21:33 Gotcha.
10:21:35 Great.
10:21:37 I had one.
10:21:37 I had one just about definitions. The 5th priority was increasing. Mobility for local businesses is that um is mobility transportation, like different ways to move around or,
like Ada, accessibility, infrastructure.
10:21:53 It. It's probably both. But the biggest conversation is, how do? How do people get from one place to another?
10:22:01 Um.
10:22:02 How do visitors get from one place to another?
10:22:05 And there's.
10:22:07 You know we have gaps.
10:22:09 We have gaps in that arena.
10:22:12 Um.
10:22:12 And we already have. Uh.
10:22:16 An improvement happening with that, with an additional supplier of.
10:22:22 Moving people around through a business that's sort of.
10:22:27 Came out of Covid.
10:22:29 Uh, with a woman who runs a business of driving people around.
10:22:34 And she drives them.
10:22:36 You know, if you want to go from to Ctac or you wanna.
10:22:41 Uh! Ha! Go look at all the lavender fields uh! She's doing that kind of work so.
10:22:47 Um.
10:22:48 Really, we take you for a balloon ride right.
10:22:50 Yeah, well.
10:22:51 And yes, taking for balloon ride. Yup.
10:22:55 I think further to that, Tara, that you know the idea there are pieces that are really good like, there's the straight shot you can.
10:23:03 Walk on in Seattle, walk on the ferry, walk off, get on a bus. You can get on Jefferson County bus and go.
10:23:09 Uh down to Port Townsend. You could get on the straight shot and come to Port Angeles.
10:23:13 So there's lots of good ways for people to travel without a car. But then.
10:23:18 If you want to get from Port Angeles to the whole rainforest, how do you do that? Or.
10:23:24 It. Heaven forbid! You want to try to travel any place on a Sunday, you know. That's.
10:23:28 There's some big gaps Amy can tell you about.
10:23:32 That I've had my own experiences with. You know I can get all the way to Quenal. But how do I get home on a Sunday. I've got to call someone to come pick me up so.
10:23:40 Um! How do we.
10:23:42 Better link those things together. And as a destination, how do we create.
10:23:49 Possibilities for people to travel around.
10:23:51 Which would benefit.
10:23:52 Obviously both locals and visitors.
10:23:55 And.
10:23:55 What agencies are on that? On that subcommittee? Do you have both transit agencies from the 2 counties, or.
10:24:00 Well, I think that's.
10:24:02 Part of what we really need. One of the things you're going to see with this plan is when it's all said and done.
10:24:07 All of the to do's are not on the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau by any means. In fact, sometimes we're just the champion or the uh.
10:24:16 The advocate. Uh it's gonna require.
10:24:19 You know those kind of agencies to tackle some of these.
10:24:25 Yeah, that's kind of.
10:24:27 Yeah. The 20 other.
10:24:28 Cause you're fine.
10:24:29 A focus on.
10:24:31 What what are we doing for each one of those 5 or.
10:24:33 And you talk about the sign at the bridge.
10:24:37 Um.
10:24:39 Yeah, I'm.
10:24:40 There's something you're doing with the other ones.
10:24:41 Yeah, I'm happy to go through a little bit more. So. Um! At the summit we had the morning session.
10:24:49 Was led by the various um members of this leadership team.
10:24:54 And they have all agreed to continue in those roles. So the 1st one is promote. Why, the different.
10:25:03 Why the difference is worth the distance.
10:25:05 Um.
10:25:06 We have. Uh Bria Miller, who's the general manager at 7 abshire from Port Angeles, Chamber of Commerce, and Jessica Wearsmo with blackball ferry. They're the 3 that are leading
this. Now, again, they will probably have additional people.
10:25:24 Working with them on their 3 priorities. Their 3 priorities are to develop messaging of the journey to market, so.
10:25:34 An example of that that they shared is.
10:25:38 You know it.
10:25:39 People think about ah going to Walla, Walla, and it's no big deal.
10:25:44 Right from Seattle.
10:25:45 But they don't.
10:25:47 They think it's very hard to get to the Olympic Peninsula. So part of that is, how do we.
10:25:53 Help our visitors understand.
10:25:57 The journey itself is.
10:25:59 Part of.
10:26:00 The Olympic Peninsula experience. So when you come through port, Gamble in the fall, and you see how beautiful.
10:26:07 Uh, you know.
10:26:08 That little community is, or you. You stop in Paulsbo, and you have a Norwegian experience by buying licorice at the.
10:26:18 At the little store down there. That's part of the experience, or even coming over on a ferry. That's.
10:26:24 Part of the experience.
10:26:26 Conversely, coming the other way on the Olympic peninsula the same thing. So they're gonna really talk about, how do we help.
10:26:32 That.
10:26:34 Um experience getting to the Olympic Peninsula be a positive one. There was a lot of conversation about the bridge itself.
10:26:43 And.
10:26:44 It began uh being referred to as the magic bridge by our consultants, because.
10:26:50 Every time they came across they they had this feeling of.
10:26:55 Right.
10:26:56 So developing that messaging the concept that.
10:27:02 Um. Their phrase is, your journey begins here.
10:27:06 Stay for the sigh.
10:27:08 So.
10:27:09 Most. Everybody is wanting to have visitors here for more than a a day or 2 and help them think about.
10:27:17 Getting here and not trying to, you know. Do all of the National Park in.
10:27:22 One day, but rather come and enjoy other parts of the peninsula.
10:27:28 What else is there to do? Right? Your place, Kevin, for example. I mean, there's a lot to do down there, and I think a lot of people just drive right on by as they do Port Ludlow.
They just drive right on by.
10:27:42 So how do we, you know, make spokes in that wheel?
10:27:47 They're talking about doing a video to showcase that journey.
10:27:50 So that's the 1st one.
10:27:54 Um! And and again they're only.
10:27:57 They had about. All of them had more than 3 things to focus on, but these are the top 3 that they're working on for short term goals. There will be other ones likely that come.
10:28:10 You know, over the next 5 years.
10:28:13 The second goal is to promote how the Olympic peninsula is more than a park.
10:28:18 And barb Hanna from the city of Swim and Michelle Yeager um, who has a B+B in swim, and has been involved in uh both Opb and optc.
10:28:33 Uh, they're leading this one, and their 1st priority is to consider itineraries uh the afternoon session at the summit we actually created by table. I think we ended up with
18 itineraries.
10:28:48 That were different profiles. Whether it was family, whether it was visitors from Texas coming.
10:29:00 Um in April, and they were all again focused. All of this is focused on other than high season.
10:29:03 So.
10:29:06 Winter and spring, months.
10:29:08 How do we get things going.
10:29:11 And and why will people want to be here.
10:29:14 During those times.
10:29:15 Right.
10:29:17 Um.
10:29:18 They're talking about building a platform or a landing page, so that it's really easy PE for people to find this information.
10:29:27 And uh collaboration to create those experiences. So working with.
10:29:33 Not just hotels and restaurants, but hotels, restaurants, attractions.
10:29:38 And retail.
10:29:40 So.
10:29:41 Making sure that.
10:29:43 Ah!
10:29:44 The the full experience is there.
10:29:48 For our visitors.
10:29:50 The 3rd one is to promote staycations.
10:29:52 To increase spring, fall, and winter business.
10:29:56 Um. We know that. Uh Lt. Says you cannot. Uh.
10:30:02 Use marketing dollars.
10:30:04 If it's within 50 miles. Well, if you think about it.
10:30:08 50 miles from Forks to Port Townsend.
10:30:11 Right.
10:30:12 We have an audience.
10:30:14 Right here on the Olympic peninsula, and those visitors.
10:30:19 Who are residents of the Peninsula.
10:30:21 Often like to go to the other part of the peninsula, and so.
10:30:26 Getting all of those groups together to have a consistent.
10:30:31 Uh hashtag. A consistent promotion.
10:30:34 Of saying.
10:30:35 You know.
10:30:36 We want our visitors to experience the Olympic Peninsula. It could also be promoted.
10:30:44 The I. 5. Corridor.
10:30:44 Or others that are coming uh.
10:30:47 Other than in high season.
10:30:49 So they're gonna work with social media. They're gonna look at how we create this highlight of uh forging outdoor cooking education.
10:30:59 Uh to demonstrate place based experiences.
10:31:03 And they're also talking about creating a festival of the Olympics that would happen in the winter months in Q. 4.
10:31:13 So that's led by Steve Lee.
10:31:17 Uh, most of you know, Steve, I think. Uh and Pam Doll from Lake Crescent and Natalie Maitland from Fort.
10:31:27 The 4th one is, make visitors feel more welcome.
10:31:31 This is being led by Sarah Hankie Copley from Puget Sound Express.
10:31:37 And Lissy Andros from uh the forks uh she runs the Forks chamber.
10:31:44 The the 3 top priorities for that uh start with welcome signage.
10:31:49 So I mentioned the one that we're talking about at the entrance to Um, the Olympic Peninsula from Hood Canal. But as we know, people come other directions right? There's really
4 or 5 different places that we want to welcome our visitors.
10:32:05 Um, also talking about, how do we create.
10:32:09 A.
10:32:11 Um.
10:32:12 An overarching Olympic Peninsula experience for our visitors through things like the visitor centers. We have the gateway visitor Center.
10:32:22 Forks, swim port angeles.
10:32:24 They all have their own identity.
10:32:27 We're suggesting in the Master Plan that all of those.
10:32:32 Might have.
10:32:33 Ah, the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Center, and then below that it could still say gateway or forks, or whatever.
10:32:41 But.
10:32:42 They promote one another.
10:32:44 Right. I know Jefferson. Um.
10:32:47 County Lte supports the Forks chamber.
10:32:50 Uh, even though that's actually in Clown County, because.
10:32:55 All of the people that are coming that direction.
10:32:59 Our um.
10:33:01 Are, are getting the benefit of a very active, vibrant, robust chamber.
10:33:06 So that's 1 of the things.
10:33:09 Um, they're talking about uh promoting uh a video as a training tool for frontline workers, really. Uh, sort of saying to to every frontline worker, whether you're in hospitality
or some other uh business that supports tourism.
10:33:26 Like Quimper mercantile. I think 60% of their business.
10:33:31 They believe comes from the visitor.
10:33:35 So.
10:33:38 The. If you think about it, they're right there where people are getting off of the ferry or driving into town, or they need, you know.
10:33:44 Some basic uh, they need to get pick up their fishing permit.
10:33:48 So.
10:33:50 Are all of those.
10:33:52 Workers.
10:33:54 Cross trained enough to say, Oh, do you know what's going on at Fort Warden this weekend, or there's a fishing uh tournament uh over in Port Angeles while you're here fishing.
You might wanna check that out too.
10:34:06 Or come back in this time of the year.
10:34:10 Because there's a phishing event that you might really enjoy there. So.
10:34:14 Having everybody become ambassadors.
10:34:18 Uh for tourism.
10:34:21 That's really important.
10:34:23 And then.
10:34:25 How do we get our youth.
10:34:27 Really.
10:34:30 Understanding, how.
10:34:31 Special a place this is, so they don't wanna all just run away. Go away, never come back again.
10:34:37 Uh. So we're working on some ideas on how to integrate.
10:34:41 Um tourism. Hospitality into the high schools.
10:34:46 Um, that's that's 1 that I'm very interested in, and um will be supporting.
10:34:52 You know, Debbie, I think we're gonna have. Oh, sorry. Maybe you could just wrap up. We've got a couple of other items on the agenda, so I I didn't mean to cut you off, but
that's.
10:34:58 So the last one is the last one is about. Uh. What? Tara asked about the mobility uh options to help.
10:35:05 Visitors support small businesses. So that's all about private public transportation.
10:35:11 And parking and getting around.
10:35:16 Great.
10:35:17 Um.
10:35:17 And Greg.
10:35:18 Hey, thanks, Stephanie.
10:35:19 If I can just add real quickly, for Kevin Debbie gave you all the folks that are sort of heading these things up. But it's not an exclusive club.
10:35:27 And they very much are looking for.
10:35:31 Interested folks.
10:35:33 From all walks that are interested. If one of those topics speaks to you, and you're interested in participating.
10:35:40 These committees are going to be looking for folks to participate, so I would encourage you.
10:35:45 If that's of interest to you.
10:35:47 Raise your hand. Let Debbie know.
10:35:48 Okay, I might just.
10:35:50 Alright now, just to suggest you might reach out to the visitor centers down here.
10:35:54 It was one of Brendan in at the 4th station here, right.
10:35:58 Yes, for sure.
10:36:01 Great. Thank you. Guys so much. Oh, Terry, yeah.
10:36:03 Oh, could I just ask one more question? This is for Amy and Diana. Um! This master plan is is also the guiding document that the Tcc. Is using in planning and marketing and.
10:36:18 Um.
10:36:20 Strategizing. Is that a true statement, my understanding that correctly.
10:36:28 Sorry, Diana, to make you unmute.
10:36:30 Ah, she's on mute. I'm like, is she talking? I don't know. Um. I mean, it's definitely one that we're gonna be involved in on the on the tourism boards as well. Yes. Um.
10:36:39 I mean, Marsha's already identified the people currently specifically leading up those programs. But it is still all gonna flow into the same plan. Yes.
10:36:47 Okay.
10:36:47 Just why I sat quiet, and I'm sure Diana did. We've heard all that many times.
10:36:51 Sure. Okay. Great.
10:36:54 I think the key on this is that it's intended to be a roadmap, and.
10:37:00 We were very deliberate in the process to try and evolve as many people as we could.
10:37:06 To help develop the roadmap.
10:37:09 So that.
10:37:09 We can all be on board with the roadmap, and where it's going, how it gets delivered.
10:37:14 Might look different in Port Townsend than it looks in forks. Some things may percolate more for the.
10:37:20 Port Townsend community, and something else might percolate more for the Forks community. But.
10:37:24 The goal as a destination.
10:37:27 Going back sort of 30,000 feet is.
10:37:30 The destination is the Olympic peninsula.
10:37:34 The.
10:37:35 Various towns and communities. Below that are sub brands.
10:37:39 But the overall brand. If you're talking to Dublin, Ireland, or Duluth, Minnesota.
10:37:44 The brand is the Olympic Peninsula. So how do we all.
10:37:50 Deliver on that brand, and all that. That means.
10:37:55 In a collaborative fashion. And that's really the role of a.
10:37:58 Destination. Marketing organization is to.
10:38:01 You know, to to define the brand champion, the brand, communicate the brand.
10:38:05 And do it in a collaborative effort.
10:38:09 With all the players that want to come together.
10:38:13 And uh, just to respond to Tara's question.
10:38:17 Um.
10:38:18 You know. Uh. Steve was very heavily involved. I've been.
10:38:23 On the edge involved and.
10:38:25 We're super excited about this master plan.
10:38:29 And about being able to um.
10:38:34 Collaboratively, and take our small dollars.
10:38:39 Tcc.
10:38:40 And.
10:38:41 Come by!
10:38:42 Find that with one message or similar messages.
10:38:47 Um for the.
10:38:49 The.
10:38:50 Perfect.
10:38:51 That's it's no different than.
10:38:53 The resorted port, though joining as a partner.
10:38:59 On, the.
10:39:00 Um.
10:39:02 Uh, on the commercial ads.
10:39:04 That optic started.
10:39:07 He joined that.
10:39:08 The resort at Port Leto, partnered.
10:39:10 Because together we can reach much further.
10:39:15 A single.
10:39:16 Uh. My reach is very small.
10:39:18 And Tcc's reach is bigger. And then when we combine all those things um, it just makes such a difference. So Terry, yes.
10:39:25 We definitely, wanna look at the content we wanna look at.
10:39:29 Um, you know, what's the message? We wanna say, uh, yeah, we can get on board with, say, an Olympic peninsula. You know, we're still going to be around. And we're still going
to be marketing under all those things. It's just that we're all gonna push down the same highway instead of a lot of different side roads that we're not getting that message consistent
out to the.
10:39:50 To the traveler that we want to come and stay and really enjoy the Peninsula.
10:39:58 Got it. Thank you.
10:40:00 Alright. Well again, Marsha Debbie, thank you so much for taking time this morning to uh to share this great plan with us, and we will definitely be in contact more. So I'll
I'll I'll let you guys go. You're welcome to join. Stay for the the rest of our meeting. But um. We also wanna respect Belinda's time. And uh, thank you for coming out today, and I
will pass it over to Belinda to give a an Update, as as we requested from all our Uh Awardees on.
10:40:25 The enrolled towns alliance, and and specifically, Ford presses. Here.
10:40:30 So over the past couple of years we have um.
10:40:35 Come to the committee to ask for funding.
10:40:38 And um! What we'd like to do is we like to.
10:40:43 Move forward in trying to grow our event. We were on that path when Covid hit.
10:40:49 And it has set us back, and we're still growing from that.
10:40:53 Then, as part of Covid um, the tribes changed. How they did business, and trip was no longer available to us.
10:41:00 So we had to switch.
10:41:02 From shrimp fest to your desk.
10:41:05 And we've been.
10:41:06 You know, trying to get back to where we were.
10:41:09 Last year, and the year before.
10:41:13 The committee gave us $10,000.
10:41:15 And with that, what has made it.
10:41:18 There's a big game changer for us.
10:41:20 Was um being able to get a tent running.
10:41:24 So now we get a 40 by 40, 10.
10:41:27 And people stay longer, because, and the bands are under the tent.
10:41:31 Um.
10:41:33 And so that has been very helpful, and he's had people on the ground which is good for our vendors.
10:41:39 Because they're there, especially the food vendors. Um.
10:41:43 So that has been one important thing. We use the funds to buy additional picnic tables.
10:41:49 Which has been having a question.
10:41:54 Yeah.
10:41:55 Which has been a heaven sent for us because the old ones we have were borrowed from the Brennan community center, and are very heavy.
10:42:03 Our volunteers over the last couple years.
10:42:07 Probably over 50% have aged out.
10:42:09 So we've had to start doing things a little bit differently than kids we were able to purchase with these funds.
10:42:16 Are lighter.
10:42:17 And they're able to hold.
10:42:20 So they're easily stored and moved around.
10:42:24 We've then had another organization because of that.
10:42:28 Donate umbrella, so we were able to leverage um.
10:42:33 The funds that we have here.
10:42:35 Um.
10:42:36 Also been able to um.
10:42:42 Expand our usable um.
10:42:46 Entertainment.
10:42:48 Uh through the use of these fence, which are bringing in more people from farther away.
10:42:52 And we've expanded our marketing.
10:42:56 So we use the funds that we get from Ltap.
10:43:01 And.
10:43:04 And add it to what we already have.
10:43:06 For our marketing, and uh.
10:43:08 We've we've had a nice breach.
10:43:11 We um?
10:43:12 Change the way we do our vendor applications. Through this, we've changed our website. So the funds that we receive from Ltc have really gone a long way in helping our.
10:43:25 Our event.
10:43:26 Stabilize and grow, and we're able to then use the funds we have to. Um.
10:43:34 Do other?
10:43:36 Other things um.
10:43:38 That are.
10:43:40 Reoccurring costs, so we don't necessarily want to. Aside from the marketing and the entertainment, but just smaller. Um!
10:43:46 Reoccurring calls. We wanna make sure that our organization.
10:43:49 Uh continues to do that. We are a um volunteer organization. No one um.
10:43:56 Is paid.
10:43:57 A.
10:43:58 Because we want our the money going back into the event and growing the event.
10:44:03 And we have.
10:44:06 We've noticed, because last year we took um.
10:44:09 From our.
10:44:11 From help. Farmers market here does their surveys with.
10:44:17 Easels and printed out on.
10:44:21 Oh, what are they? The little pads and people put dots on where.
10:44:26 To get our reply, so we had a lot more replies to that.
10:44:30 And we have found that most of our people are hearing about our event.
10:44:35 Uh, from social media.
10:44:36 And pushing it out. Out. There.
10:44:39 And that has made a big difference. And that's where we'll probably focus more of our.
10:44:45 Our funds Um.
10:44:46 Going forward.
10:44:47 We also identified through this um.
10:44:51 That um!
10:44:53 A good majority of our.
10:44:58 Festival goers.
10:44:59 Are coming from which, with tech uh likes to see 50 of the people that took the survey. Um! We don't have the great numbers that they had there. But we had 283 people take.
10:45:12 The survey in this one section, and it asked, how far you driving, and of that um 151 sent over 50 miles.
10:45:22 Over. I'm sorry. Over a hundred 50. Um.
10:45:26 Respondent said they were going over 50 miles, and that's a good number for a a single event, too, you know. Then that was the whole peninsula, and then of that.
10:45:36 36 responded. They came from another state or another country.
10:45:40 So so that was a good number.
10:45:42 Uh.
10:45:44 And the next section a hundred 11 people responded.
10:45:47 And of that 46 people were staying in campgrounds.
10:45:51 10 people were staying in parks, 6 in hotel motels, because we really don't have any um. And then 49 of them were in vacation runs.
10:46:04 So.
10:46:05 We're seeing a large number of people because of the fact that we don't have hotels and hotels stay in vacation runs.
10:46:12 And um.
10:46:14 Of that.
10:46:16 47.
10:46:17 We're staying for 3 nights.
10:46:19 32 for 2 nights, and then 19 for.
10:46:23 1 9.
10:46:24 So I think in how we are going about getting the information that was um.
10:46:31 Clearer and better for us this year, and we're able to give, I think, better information back to Lt. Where the funds are going, and it appears that um.
10:46:40 They're doing.
10:46:41 They're doing the right thing. We're going in the right direction. Um!
10:46:46 And we will just continue doing what we can to grow our event and.
10:46:52 And do the same thing, and we're very appreciative of the funding.
10:46:55 That's great. Do you know what the attendance was this year? Uh the attendance year? Um.
10:47:01 Because for us the weather was um.
10:47:04 A little odd, and so it was down a little from the year before, but for whatever reason that.
10:47:12 Don't have that sheet of paper. No problem. I'm sorry. And you did that trip again.
10:47:16 And we did we? It turned out that the way um! Things were done. One of the um.
10:47:24 One of the um.
10:47:27 Tribal members was able to sell us what they had, and we were able to have shirt this year.
10:47:33 Thank you so much, Belinda. Yes, Kevin.
10:47:36 I I had one. What's your overall budget?
10:47:38 For the event usually.
10:47:41 Our overall budget for the event.
10:47:47 No, I didn't bring everything. Um.
10:47:50 An overall budget for the event I want to pay is around 80,000.
10:47:55 And if not as waiting in kind, donations of time and everything.
10:48:02 Alright!
10:48:02 Okay.
10:48:03 Thank.
10:48:05 Any other questions for Belinda.
10:48:09 Okay.
10:48:10 Well, thank you so much for uh making the trip in person. It's great to see you, and I had a great time at uh fjord fest this year, I think you just have to add, let's rename
Hood Canal. I I think that should be like the mission of the of the fest now is to uh rename it uh I I feel like there's a name, you know.
10:48:26 Passing through fjord, or whatever we should call it. So we're still being delayed by the community for changing it. I'm trying to give you a rationale for it. Alright! Well,
thank you so much. Blenda.
10:48:45 Okay? Well, we have just a little time left. So let's um move on to just double check.
10:48:53 So we'll go in line.
10:48:54 Um, there's no motion, so we'll not have hold comment for this, and then we'll go back to our ongoing review of a different counties. I'm gonna share my screen here.
10:49:08 This way. It's not there yet.
10:49:14 Isn't.
10:49:22 All right. Can you guys see my screen.
10:49:26 Same as last time. Um the 1st couple. So we'll just uh just.
10:49:33 We don't have time to go through this again. But same control on Rcw's.
10:49:37 Uh. So last time we looked at San Juan County I did get a little bit more information from San Juan County, and we can come back and spend a little time on their excel spreadsheet,
and they they were not able to give me.
10:49:47 Um a 5 year budget as we asked, but I did want to point out.
10:49:53 Um. This is.
10:49:54 Just a screenshot of their uh.
10:49:58 Part of their 2324 funding. But I want to point out that they do have these core amounts that were kind of talked about a little bit in the strategic plan that we reviewed last
time. So if you look at the top, the amount requested for their visitors was 350, and they ended up awarding 542,000 for their engage. Sanwan County, I think, is their is their visitor
bureau.
10:50:21 And then you see, with the.
10:50:22 Um historical museums, and and uh.
10:50:27 For uh, various facility up.
10:50:29 Um operations. Got core grants.
10:50:33 That was uh the majority of of the money distributed.
10:50:38 But they had, you know, a million 5 distributed. They've got a huge revenue surplus right now, too. They've got a or not revenue surplus but cash surplus. They have millions
of dollars sitting in their in their cash reserves. So they've been.
10:50:51 Um awarding higher than their um amount for the last.
10:50:55 Couple of years, their revenue to to use that that excess.
10:51:00 Um. And it's strange, because San Juan County is, you know.
10:51:02 2 thirds the size of Jefferson County, but they do have, you know, several cities, and I think more hotels, probably. So that's why their their revenues are a little bit higher
than ours.
10:51:11 So uh oops! Do I already go back now.
10:51:15 So uh, really, quickly on next, actually, we'll come back to that sorry Colin County. So.
10:51:20 I did talk to Randy Johnson, who is, and I can't see you guys. So if you have a question, please just interject, and I'll you can ask question.
10:51:28 Uh. So I talked to Randy yesterday, who was their Commissioner on on the ltap.
10:51:35 They have 9 seats. One is vacant right now. No explicit code that talks about where they come from, though their code constantly references the Rcw. As well. So it's 4 producers
and 4 receivers.
10:51:47 And they try to get them geographically distributed.
10:51:50 Uh, if you remember. Uh, Samuel County has.
10:51:54 One producer and one receiver from each of the districts which are each of the main islands.
10:51:59 Um. They have a budgeted amount for their destination uh marketing organization, which is Marsha, is the Ed of Olympic uh Peninsula, which was just here.
10:52:11 And uh.
10:52:14 Oh, the little typo there! But they do put it through the same process. But then they have um most of the marketing like we'll go to their amount in a little bit. But uh.
10:52:24 Most of their marketing comes.
10:52:26 Uh.
10:52:27 Is, if you had an additional event that you wanted to market, you would go to.
10:52:32 Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau, and they have 5,000 grants and and the like to uh make specific marketing grants. So they kind of take care of all the marketing for the county,
including for other agencies. So they don't get lots of marketing. A asks for for lte outside of that.
10:52:49 Um, they really reference the Rcw. They also, uh get a legal analysis every year that I think we've talked about and had public comment about that seems really helpful, too,
and it's part of the review process. I'll show you in a second.
10:53:02 And uh, Randy said, they usually have 2 Rfp cycles per year, because there's always kind of emergencies that come up, that so they do one with the cadence of us getting it,
you know, in early fall, with an award by the winter, and they usually do one again in February for things that have been missed, and that was the that practices.
10:53:22 Goes on today.
10:53:24 Um.
10:53:26 And I can't read my last.
10:53:30 Oops sign.
10:53:32 Alright!
10:53:34 So here's their 5 Year plan or 5 year budget. You can see they usually get about a million 8 in their Lt.
10:53:43 And as you can see uh the.
10:53:46 Um.
10:53:48 Olympic Peninsula. Visitor Bureau is there.
10:53:51 Uh kind of top priority. And they call it out. Actually, I'm gonna go back when even this on here is uh their code. And it really doesn't have much other than reference to the
Rcw. But on the left you see where the balance of the funds collected should be used to fund the comprehensive professional promotion program.
10:54:07 So that's their visitor bureau that they usually fund. And if you look.
10:54:14 Back at previous awards, even when the funds were considerably less. Ah!
10:54:18 You know, in 2,018, 2,019, you can see they had about $900,000 in Lt. Funds, and now they are making about a million 8 per year. So they're uh. The lodging nights have gone
up significantly. Yeah, go ahead, Kevin.
10:54:32 Yeah, their area, that. So they this excludes forks.
10:54:37 Hey!
10:54:35 Port Angeles and Squam, because they have their own.
10:54:39 Yes, that is correct.
10:54:39 And then what about the.
10:54:40 What about the Uh reservations? Is it part of this or not?
10:54:44 That's not part of that snow.
10:54:46 They have their own.
10:54:46 So this, like set like 7 seeders, isn't part of this.
10:54:49 Thanks.
10:54:50 Okay.
10:54:52 Yep.
10:54:52 Alright!
10:54:54 Um, but you can. You can kind of look through their awards. And uh, you know.
10:55:01 Their revenue is very, very strong. Of course.
10:55:03 And they have lots of uh.
10:55:05 Um.
10:55:08 Smaller awards that go in out too, but.
10:55:10 Yeah, that's pretty much it. We don't have a lot of time to sit on this, but I will. I will send this out to you.
10:55:16 And this is a.
10:55:17 One of 3 or 4 pages of the legal analysis they that they get that seems really helpful as part of their Rfp. Process, the the prosecuting attorneys office, the Po uh.
10:55:29 Kind of does a review of each of the application, and tells if they're eligible, if they should be more.
10:55:34 More money coming in.
10:55:36 Um.
10:55:39 Yep, and that's pretty much it.
10:55:42 Um, their process is very similar to ours. They have more more members on Ltc, they definitely see the impact of things like, you know, the crab.
10:55:53 Festival, and other, you know, like.
10:55:54 Brandy, talked a lot about the Bmx festival that I think they funded this year, and how it fills up. You know all the hotel rooms. So they really.
10:56:02 They really, uh, rely on the the expertise of the generators and receivers of lodging tax to.
10:56:10 To.
10:56:12 Prioritize past that um destination marketing organization which is a core concept for them.
10:56:18 As you can see, they don't really fund a lot of the visitor centers.
10:56:24 It's mostly there's some uh capital investments.
10:56:28 There's event investments. And then there's the kind of the sole demo investment that then um percolates down into other marketing opportunities for.
10:56:38 Uh events and organizations in Clown County, outside the urban.
10:56:43 Um, they the city.
10:56:45 Do you know.
10:56:45 Kevin, did you have another question about.
10:56:46 Yeah, how? How do their visitor centers get funded.
10:56:50 Well, I know I we talked to Lissy at our last meeting, and I know that forks uh Forks, Ltc. Is one of the funders of the Forks one. So I'm guessing that maybe the the city ltex.
10:57:07 Are, are pretty consistent funders, I think.
10:57:09 As I've looked at a couple, and I've looked. I looked at a couple of others, too.
10:57:15 Most lte tax. I would say that I've I've looked at at least have these kind of core programs that they continue to fund.
10:57:21 Because they funded them before, and I think visitor information centers are are often.
10:57:25 In there, but you know, if the cities continue to fund them, then.
10:57:29 That's just.
10:57:31 Precedent that's been established, basically.
10:57:35 Okay.
10:57:37 Other questions on that.
10:57:38 I'll send this out, and I think that is what I had. I wanted to go back to.
10:57:45 And I may go back to my Institute really quick.
10:57:49 Okay. Um.
10:57:51 Yeah, let me share the spreadsheet really quick that I got from San Juan county.
10:57:58 And we can, and see if there's any questions. And we'll talk about future meetings really quick, and try to get people out, maybe a minute or too late.
10:58:07 Share screen, again.
10:58:14 Alright. You guys see that.
10:58:18 No.
10:58:20 Um. Their numbers are a little funny up here, but they, you see, they have facilities, capital expenditures, facility, operations, and events for festivals.
10:58:28 And that in the top section here.
10:58:31 See they have a whole column for their core amount grants as they, as the auditor's office, assist them with this, and they do have a dedicated staff member that is paid for
out of Ltec funds that they just added this year. So in talking to the clerk of the Board, Sally Rogers, they are.
10:58:48 They're trying to.
10:58:49 Update their process as well right now and uh.
10:58:53 And really found that a staff member.
10:58:56 In the Lt. But again, of course they get. They get quite a bit more than us.
10:59:00 So they were awarded, you know.
10:59:04 A 1 million 5,000,004 for their core amounts. And that's just for operations of the theaters, the chambers and historical museums, as well as their visitor up Visitor Center
or their destination marketing organization.
10:59:16 And then.
10:59:18 This column. I I know you can't see everything is uh.
10:59:22 The request for 2324, and the award is here in K.
10:59:26 So just to kind of go down and show you we have events.
10:59:32 And the recommendations.
10:59:37 So kind of a blend of capital, expenditures and events.
10:59:44 Um, and then, if there were.
10:59:46 Like this, facility operations. Grant.
10:59:50 That got partially funded was mostly for promotions and marketing for one of the.
10:59:53 The San Juan Island Heart Museum.
10:59:55 So not, I think.
10:59:57 Yeah? Tara question.
10:59:59 Um. Do we recall the sort of categorization and column C is that part of.
11:00:07 Does anyone remember in looking at their master plan last time? If they sort of predetermine percentages per.
11:00:16 Um type of request? Or do they just categorize them like this, you know, for ease of.
11:00:23 Consideration.
11:00:23 Let me just open it back up and and.
11:00:27 i i i have recollection, but I'm not sure.
11:00:30 What it is. Let me find it real quick, and open it up.
11:00:34 Other other thoughts, or.
11:00:35 Thoughts. While I look for that, someone fill my dead air.
11:00:39 Did you also say, Greg, that you'd send the spreadsheet out, or have you already? And I've missed it.
11:00:43 I will, I will! I'll send it to. I'll send both the updated.
11:00:47 Slide deck, as well as the.
11:00:49 One page spreadsheet that I got all the stuff from county. I was just getting Pdfs from their Lt.
11:00:56 Uh minutes.
11:00:58 But strategic plan. Where is it?
11:01:03 Ah!
11:01:10 I we I can look at it.
11:01:06 I'm not finding it. We're already at past time. So I yeah, let's let's uh let me write that question down.
11:01:12 Um.
11:01:13 And we'll have to address it at the at the next meeting.
11:01:17 So.
11:01:17 That's where we are, and let me go back to my.
11:01:22 Slide deck and reshare that sorry.
11:01:29 To get to next steps.
11:01:33 And so today.
11:01:36 7 12 reviewed county, and I'll give you that information so you can dig into it a little more.
11:01:41 And we really gotta get going and start talking about directions, any directions that we'd like to go. So.
11:01:48 Um. At our next meeting it will be primarily a deliberations, though we do have. Tcc. Will be presenting. We might have one other uh recipient uh presenting at at the 7 26 meeting,
and then 8, 9 other than presentations from recipients of this year's awards. It will be really just.
11:02:09 Updating the.
11:02:11 Updating the Rfp as well. So these are the big things that we need to do to make sure that we hit that same schedule for the Rfp. This year. There was some questions from Tcc.
About.
11:02:21 W. Whether we're gonna have a different schedule than we had in the previous years. And I believe that the goal is to, you know. Get this work done to maintain the same schedule
that we've had. Essentially, you know. Early fall, get the Rfps, you know. Post the Rfp. By by.
11:02:36 The end of August, and and really process these in in early fall.
11:02:42 So, Greg, you you said we're.
11:02:41 Okay, I'm gonna stop my.
11:02:44 Yeah. Kevin.
11:02:45 When we had Tcc. You said, your plan is for Tcc. Present. Next week.
11:02:50 At the 26th Tcc. Has signed up to present their report, like we had from Thorfest.
11:02:55 Yeah.
11:02:56 Okay, it just seems like we had the joint meeting with Tcc. So we know quite a bit about them already.
11:03:03 No Devon.
11:03:03 If you wanna.
11:03:03 We don't have one yet.
11:03:06 Oh, sorry I had the wrong date on that thing. It's the 23, rd not the.
11:03:11 20.
11:03:11 Hey, team! Sorry when when day was wrong, but.
11:03:14 What? What was your question about Tcc. Kevin.
11:03:16 My.
11:03:17 Oh, mine was just that we we, since we had that joint meeting with Tcc. We already know quite a bit about them.
11:03:24 So it would be smarter to have somebody else come and pitch or.
11:03:28 Did? Did we have a joint meeting.
11:03:30 We had one kind of tentatively scheduled, but I don't think we ever actually had it.
11:03:34 Oh, we, yeah, we.
11:03:36 Um.
11:03:41 Oh, oh, gotcha! Okay.
11:03:37 We had our meeting, and then we stayed for the Tcc. Meeting like a month ago.
11:03:44 But they'll they'll.
11:03:45 Right.
11:03:45 Right.
11:03:45 Yeah.
11:03:47 But didn't we? I don't know um.
11:03:49 I I did not, but maybe I'm messed up.
11:04:00 Okay. Alright!
11:03:58 Well, I've already signed them up to present, and but we'll we'll uh, you know.
11:04:03 If if we need more time we can, we'll build more time into it.
11:04:07 Okay? And then other thing. Um, Kevin. Uh, thank you for your application for reappointment.
11:04:18 23 to 13.
11:04:14 Haven't got one from Tara yet. If you wanna stay on it, we need that by 7 23, just a quick email to me and Adl, saying I'd I'd like to be reappointed. Um, and then we'll we'll
make sure that happens.
11:04:25 And I do want people to consider um.
11:04:28 Membership as we as we go forward. I think you know we are the small like the Rcw. Requires at least 5 members and no Lt, that I've looked at.
11:04:37 Other than ours has only 5 members. Usually, you know, 7 to 9 seems like the the more regular.
11:04:45 Amount. So just consider that as well.
11:04:48 And I'm sorry for keeping you a little late, but uh, that is.
11:04:54 Uh any other. Nope, that's it. Um! So.
11:04:59 Anything else for the good of the order, and we'll be back soon, and I will send out the spreadsheet from San Juan County and the slide deck from Clown County and Callum County
is really easy to go back and look at minutes as well.
11:05:12 Um, if you want to go back and review stuff and all their meetings are online. Um, Diana, did you do any more research on Clickat County. Did you? Do you think there are good
analog for us.
11:05:21 I did, but I don't think they're a good one.
11:05:25 Okay.
11:05:27 Okay. Um great. Well, uh, if if anyone does encounter, I've I've been looking around. I think Columb County San County both a little bit more revenue that they get. But but
similar situation. Um that we're in, and of course the Clown County, where.
11:05:43 Uh connected at the hip, since we're all part of the uh North Olympic Peninsula. So.
11:05:48 Um, if there's nothing else for the good of the order.
11:05:53 All right.
11:05:55 Well, we are adjourned. We will see you on the 26 for our next meeting, and then not the 18, th but the 23rd after the 9.th So sorry about that wrong date, and we are adjourned.
Have a great day. Everyone.
11:06:08 Enjoy the sunshine.
11:06:08 Bye.
11:06:08 Alright! Thanks! Bye, everybody!
11:06:09 Thank you.
11:06:10 Hey Eddie.
09:56:15 From Diana Smeland to Hosts and panelists:
Iâm in the car so will be mostly muted.
09:57:18 From LTAC to Hosts and panelists:
Glad you are here, thank you