CEDS Committee Meeting Minutes

March 21, 2013

3-4 PM Brattleboro selectboard room

In attendance: Patrick Moreland, Barb Sondag, Bill Colvin, Martin Langeveld, Adam Grinold, Laura Sibilia, Stephan Morse, Jeff Lewis, Pat Moulton Powden, Gail Nunziata, Rachel Selsky, Jenna Pugliese, Susan McMahon, Drew Richards, Bob Stevens, Jill James, Chris Moore, David Altstadt, Jesse Woosley, Tap Barnhill, Bill Anton, Seth Proctor, Wendy Woods, Julia Sorensen, Andrew Robinson, Colby Dix

Jenna called the meeting to order at 3:00 pm

The committee was to have done the CEDS Readiness Assessment at today’s meeting.  Due to weather, ViTAL Economy is not in town and all CEDS meetings were rescheduled.

The Committee reviewed the revised schedule for the CEDS Regional Meetings and discussed methods of soliciting good attendance.

Regional Profile Summary and Key Implications for the Future
Exploration & Discussion of Issues of Challenge and Opportunity
What Does Quality of Place Mean in the Context of a Healthy SeVEDS Economy?

Tuesday April 23rd 8:30-11:30 am  - Bellows Falls Lower Theater
Wednesday April 24th 8:30-11:30 am  - Wilmington Town Hall Meeting Room
Wednesday April 24th 6-8:30 pm  - Londonderry Town Offices
Thursday April 25th  6-8:30 pm  - Brattleboro World Learning Cafeteria

Session 2
Follow up to session 1 –“Did we capture your input correctly?”

Tuesday June 25th 8:30-11:30 am – Bellows Falls Lower Theater
Wednesday June 26th 8:30-11:30 am – Wilmington Town Hall Meeting Room
Wednesday June 26th 6-8:30 pm – Londonderry Town Offices
Thursday June 27th 6-8:30 pm – Brattleboro Retreat Education Conference Room

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CEDS Committee Meeting
Minutes
April 25, 2013

2-4:30 pm

In attendance: Patrick Moreland, Barb Sondag, Bill Colvin, Martin Langeveld, Adam Grinold, Laura Sibilia, Stephan Morse, Jeff Lewis, Pat Moulton-Powden, Gail Nunziata, Rachel Selsky, Jenna Pugliese, Susan McMahon, Drew Richards, Bob Stevens, Jill James, Chris Moore, David Alstadt, Jesse Woosley, Tap Barnhill, Bill Anton, Gretchen Havreluk, Frank Knott, Mark Madsen via phone

Frank Knott walked committee through CEDS readiness assessment to gauge regions readiness and capacity to create and implement CEDS.

Results of the CEDS readiness assessment can be found at SeVEDS .com

SeVEDS CED Best Practice Assessment Tool 04252013 annotated

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Minutes
SeVEDS Board meeting
2-3 Thursday March 21st * Brattleboro Municipal Center

In attendance: Jill James, Adam Grinold, Drew Richards, Patrick Moreland, Dave Altstadt, Colby Dix, Julia Sorensen, Susan McMahon, Pat Moulton Powden, Laura Sibilia, Jenna Pugliese, Barb Sondag, Martin Langeveld, Wendy Woods, Anthony Summers

Absent: Jeff Lewis, Lisa Sullivan, Dan Yates, Bill Colvin, Tim Cullenen

Jenna called the meeting to order at 2:04

BDCC’s two new Flood Recovery Officers, Anthony Summers and Wendy Woods were introduced.

Colby made a motion to approve Financials, seconded by David Vote: unanimous

Town Meeting recap – Laura reported that funding for SeVEDS articles were approved in the following amounts by the following towns:

Town of Rockingham – 15,000
Town of Wilmington – 5,628
Town of Dover – 3,372
Town of Vernon – 6,600
Town of Marlboro – 3,238
Town of Newfane – 5,178

Total approved was 39,016 – added to Town of Rockingham (15K) and Town of Wilmington (2,814) previous contributions total municipal contributions are 56,830.  This means we met the Brattleboro Selectboard challenge and can seek the remaining 25K in funding.

Laura gave a brief Update on CDBG-DR/EDA – Flood projects

Proposed process and timeline for FY 14 work plan and budget – Executive Committee to discuss in May, full board to discuss in June, FY 13 budget to be adopted in July

Board membership and nomination timelines – Executive Committee to name nominating committee (itself), work with staff on identifying seats that will be opening up – new and renewed board members to be presented with recommended slate of officers at July meeting.

Workforce and job fair – Pat updated the board on the work she has been doing with the SeVEDS workforce committee.  That committee is working on a FY 13 workplan.  Sonnax has proposed a regional hiring projection for next 5 years, modeled after the projection they are doing for Sonnax.  David reviewed the upcoming career fair being developed by the WWIB.  Jenna suggested the fair should be moved around the region and Jill suggested the career fair should involve students.

The board’s next meeting will be Thursday April 25^th 2-4:30 as the CEDS Committee to do CEDS readiness assessment

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Minutes
SeVEDS Board meeting
2-3 Thursday February 14th * Brattleboro Municipal Center

In attendance: David Altstadt, Tim Cullenen, Drew Richards, Bill Colvin, Jenna Pugliese, Jill James, Martin Langeveld, Colby Dix, Patrick Moreland, Bob Stevens, Jeff Lewis, Jesse Woosley, Lisa Sullivan, Julia Sorensen
Bill Colvin made a motion to approve the minutes from January 22^nd, seconded by David Vote: unanimous

Bob Stevens made a motion to approve financials, seconded by Colby Vote: unanimous

Review Board makeup – Lisa informed the board that she would be going on maternity leave, the executive committee has recommended Jenna step in as interim chair.

Jeff made a motion to approve the executive committee recommendation to Elect Adam Grinold to Board to fill seat vacated by Scott Murphy; seconded by Jenna Vote Unanimous

Discussion on Draft Purchasing Policy – Bob moved to approve the board authorize expenses over 10K seconded by Colby Vote: unanimous

The board reviewed official CEDS Committee membership via SeVEDS Board action (17 public, 7 non-profit, 5 public total of 59% private)

• SeVEDS Board PLUS
• Connie Snow – Windham Windsor Housing
• Andy Robinson – Department of Labor
• Rachel Selsky – Camoin Associates
• Stephanie Huestis – Peoples Bank
• Dutch Walsh – Town of Rockingham
• Gail Nunziato – Latchis
• Chris Moore – Lawyer
• Bill Anton – Dover School Principal
• Oliver Olsen – Oracle
• Roger Albee – former Secretary of Agriculture

Frank Knott advises being cognizant of sectors, sector needs to be at the table if it is going to be in the CEDS.

Set Bi-Weekly SeVEDS Staff / VE Conference Call Schedule and members

• With staff for project after monthly meetings for wrap up and future planning
• With CEDS content committee two weeks in advance of meeting – Julia would like to be added to this call

Workforce update – Jeff informed the board that on Tuesday BDCC would announce the hire of Pat Moulton Powden as Director of Workforce Development.  This is essentially a shared position between SeVEDS initiatives and BDCC initiatives.  Pat will take over as Executive Director after Jeff retirement at the end of the year.    The workforce committee continues to attract more employers and they are currently discussing a career fair.

Communications task force – Julia updated the board on a number of developments, including a new logo – developed by Woodward Creative.  We have also hired a Videographer for the Feb 15^th kick off meeting with VE.  A flyer with detail of the March and May regional sessions was distributed.

Update on EDA Flood marketing project – looking forward to receiving agency proposals.

Meeting adjourned at 3 PM

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Minutes
SeVEDS Board meeting
4- 4:30 Tuesday January 22nd * Brattleboro Municipal Center

In attendance: Barb Sondag, Jeff Lewis, Martin Langeveld, Patrick Moreland, Susan McMahon, David Alstadt, Laura Sibilia

via phone: Bill Colvin, Jill James, Julia Sorensen, Jenna Pugliese, Tim Cullenen, Jesse Woolsey board fellow
absent: Lisa Sullivan, Dan Yates, Stephan Morse, Bob Stevens, Colby Dix

Jenna called the meeting to order at 4:00

Patrick made a motion to approve minutes from January 17^th seconded by Susan Vote unanimous

1. Confirm official CEDS Committee membership via SeVEDS Board action.  This will be confirmed on February 14^th at 2 PM SeVEDS Board meeting

• Discussion of CEDS committee recommendations, individuals will follow up
  • Connie Snow – Windham Windsor Housing
  • Andy Robinson – Department of Labor
  • Adam Grinold – Mount Snow Valley Chamber
  • Dutch Walsh – Town of Rockingham
  • Sean Conley – Marlboro College – Jeff to follow up
  • Gail Nunziato – Latchis – Jeff to follow up
  • Chris Moore – Lawyer in BF – Jill to follow up
  • Andrea Seaton – Grace Cottage – Julia to Follow up
  • Jeff  Morse – Cersosimo – Julia to follow up
  • Bill Anton – Dover School Principal – Laura to follow up
  • Oliver Olsen – Oracle – Jeff to follow up
  • Roger Albee – former Secretary of Agriculture – Jeff to follow up

1. Set Bi-Weekly SeVEDS Staff / VE Conference Call Schedule

• Laura will arrange – who else should be on

1. Need to grow members and activate Communications task force – Julia will set up a meeting and email inquiries to marketing group to join.  Laura will reach out to SeVEDS YP group online
2. Event Planning Group – there was a discussion and decision that the meetings in May would take place at the same locales as the meetings in March

• Locations:
  • Brattleboro – Barb, Thursday March 21 evening and Thursday May 22 evening
  • BF/Rock – Tim, Monday choice
  • Wilm/Dover –Adam
  • Londonderry/Jamaica -Pat
• Feb 15^th
  • At Feb 15^th we need places and times for 4 March meetings
  • At Feb 15^th do we need places and times for 4 May meetings

1. 5.       CEDS content management task force

• There was general discussion about the role of this committee.  Patrick and Susan both expressed interest in serving on committee.  Patrick will follow up with Frank on details

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Minutes SeVEDS Board Meeting
January 17, 2013    10:30 – 11 AM
Selectmen’s Room Brattleboro

In attendance: Jill James, Bill Colvin, Scott Murphy, Martin Langeveld, Colby Dix, Drew Richards, Jenna Pugliese, Julia Sorensen, Seth Proctor, Lisa Sullivan, Patrick Moreland, Tim Cullenen, Barb Sondag, Dave Alstadt, Jeff Lewis, Laura Sibilia

Absent: Dan Yates, Stephan Morse

Lisa called the meeting to order at 10:35

Julia made a motion to approve the minutes from 12/18, 2^nd by David VOTE: unanimous

Colby made a motion to approve Financials, 2^nd by Martin VOTE: unanimous

Lisa presented recommendations for changes to the bylaws from the executive committee.  The recommendations outline the process by which a nominating committee is formed to make recommendations to the full board on SeVEDS board membership each year.  David asked if the nominating committee’s charge also included whether or not to reappoint board members whose terms were up and was told it did.  Martin asked that the changes to the bylaw use the phrase “executive committee” to be consistent with the rest of the bylaws.

Barb made a motion to approve the bylaw changes as recommended by the executive committee 2^nd by David VOTE: unanimous

Jeff made a motion to elect  Jill James from Bellows Falls and Chroma Technology to fill remaining term of seat vacated by Gregg Noble whose term runs through August 2015 2^nd by Tim VOTE: unanimous

The board was asked to review the Petition and Town Meeting plan to ensure they could attend the town meeting they were signed up at.  Laura said that Guilford petition and town meeting presence were going to be tough.  Barb said she would talk to Guilford and see if they thought it would be appropriate for her to attend town meeting.

Next Meetings – the board briefly spoke with Frank Knott from ViTAL Economy regarding set up for the February 15^th public kick off for the CEDS.  A decision was made to hold the event at the Retreat from 8:30-11:30.

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Minutes SeVEDS Board Meeting
December 18th, 2012 – 2PM
Hannah Cosman Room Brattleboro

In attendance: Lisa Sullivan, Julia Sorensen, Bill Colvin, Tim Cullenen, Jenna Pugliese, Martin Langeveld, Bo Stevens, Drew Richards, David Alstadt, Susan McMahon, Jeff Lewis, Barb Sondag, Dan Yates, Colby Dix, Jill James

Absent: Scott Murphy, Stephan Morse

Lisa called the meeting to order at 2:01 and introduced Jill James from Chroma who was invited to considered board membership.

From 2-3 pm the SeVEDS Board met with Speaker of the House Shap Smith to discuss the benefits and challenges of regional economic development strategy development.

Dan motioned to accept the Minutes from 11/15, seconded by Dave Vote: unanimous

Jenna made a motion to approve the financials ending November 30, 2012, seconded by Bill Vote: unanimous

Workforce Committee:  Jeff announced the hire of Pat Moulton Powden at BDCC.  She will start in February as the Director of Workforce Development and will assume the position of Executive director at BDCC when Jeff retires at the end of FY 13.

There was a brief discussion about SeVEDS partnership with the state colleges on several leadership seminars that are ongoing.  Employer participation has been good.

BDCC Update – Jeff provided a written update from BDCC to the SeVEDS Board

EDA/CDBG-DR – updates – Both the EDA Disaster grant and the CDBG-DR grant recently came in.  Laura provided the board with an outline of the three grants SeVEDS and BDCC are involved with.

ViTAL Economy will be with the SeVEDS board on January 17^th for a 6 hour meeting.  Laura is to ask Pat to attend as well as colleges, Chris Campany, workforce, and other possible sector gaps.

Municipal Fundraising – updates from Jenna, Stephan, Laura – total of 15 visits.  We need town meeting representation at Guilford,  Dummerston and Halifax

Get on Board Update- Seth Proctor, Jesse Woosley are our two board fellows and will be officially joining us in February.  They will be invited to attend the January meeting.

Bill made a motion to approve up to $500 for interpreter expenses for the Get on Board Program, seconded by Julia  Vote: Unanimous

Board and Bylaws recommendation group – Lisa told the board that the executive committee would be coming back with some recommendations on changing the bylaws.

Petition and TM plan – Board members signed up to represent the SeVEDS effort at various town meetings, Laura will bring list to next board meeting.

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Minutes SeVEDS Board Meeting
November 15th, 2012 – 2PM
Hannah Cosman Room Brattleboro

In attendance: Julia Sorenson, Jeff Lewis, Susan McMahon, Patrick Moreland, Tim Cullenen, Dan Yates, Lisa Sullivan, Jenna Pugliese (2:21), Bob Stevens, Laura Sibilia

Absent: David Alstadt, Colby Dix, Bill Colvin, Martin Langeveld, Barb Sondag, Scott Murphy, Drew Richards, Stephan Morse

Lisa called the meeting to order at 2:21

Susan moved to approve the minutes from 10/18, seconded by Jenna.  Vote Unanimous

Dan moved to accept the financials as presented, seconded by Bob.  Vote Unanimous

Board meeting time polling discussion – Lisa “this is going to be impossible” – Patrick in absence of something that works for everyone, keep the meeting time.  Jeff, might be time to think about examining by-laws as part of one year reflection.  December agenda item

BDCC Update – Jeff updated the board on meetings between SeVEDS exec committee members and the BDCC board.  Interesting conversations.  Both boards will keep each other posted monthly.

Workforce hire.  Jeff is asking for an extension on hire date to January 30, feels he is getting close.  Bob made a motion to extend the SeVEDS WF Hire Date to January 30 seconded by Dan.  Vote Unanimous

CEDS: discussion on ViTAL Economy public engagement periods

Municipal Fundraising – Board members reported the process was going well.  Bellows Falls and Wilmington have invested in SeVEDS for FY 13.  A number of towns will need petitions.  Laura will bring a plan to December meeting

SeVEDS participation with Marlboro College Get on Board Training program:  YP/Marlboro College “Get on Board” event:  Metropolis  November 30^th 5:30-7:30

Jenna made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 3:56

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