05-11-2026 Economic Development and Marketing Committee Ad Hoc Meeting - May 11, 2026

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What is the purpose and agenda of the Economic Development and Marketing Committee meeting?

Lisa Gillmor 0:23

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Economic Development and Marketing Committee. Here, here, bang, bang, gavel, gavel. Okay. This meeting will be recorded. The Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press continue on the Zoom application to stay in the meeting. Use the raise your hand feature in Zoom when you would like to speak on an item and to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute yourself when called to speak and mute yourself. When you are done speaking. If you're calling in by phone, identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. Press star nine on your phone to raise and lower your hand. Press star six if you are participating by phone to unmute.

Lisa Gillmor 1:14

So I'd like to call this meeting to order. A roll call. Right now I am the only one in attendance. Um council uh vice mayor Gonzalez is running just a little bit late. He'll be here and um Councilmember Cox will not be here today. So we'll wait for um Vice Mayor Gonzals before we approve the minutes. Of on the consent calendar. Uh so we're we're going to start with public presentations. Do we have any items? that anyone like would like to speak on that aren't on the agenda today. Do we have anyone online? No, no one's online. Okay. Well, we're gonna get right into it because we have a lot to talk about today. We're gonna start with our general business, which is discussion and input on the citywide 2026 economic development and community engagement.

Lisa Gillmor 2:09

And we had a couple of very successful events, I think, since we last met. So I think we have a lot to talk about and a lot to celebrate because they were really awesome events. So Uh staff. I don't know who's is it you, Paulina? Yes. All right. Assistant manager Paulina.

Paulina 2:24

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back to another EDMC meeting. As the mayor mentioned, we have a couple events we just had from our last meeting. So we have a lot to get through today and um We're gonna get some feedback from the committee on watch party. So we wanna make sure we get to that. So we're gonna uh cover a lot in an hour and a half today. Next slide. So we're going to do a recap of the committee input and work as we always do just to reflect on what what we've done and accomplished so far. We're going to then go do a debrief on the STEM zone and the May night market that we had um this since the last EDMC meeting. We are still going to have a report out from the Global Relations Subcommittee.

Paulina 3:08

Uh we're gonna provide some updates on the partner led events. uh funding assistance that we have available to our partners that want to help amplify the campaign. We're also, as I mentioned, going to get some feedback on watch parties and we're going to go over budget updates and next steps. Next slide. Oh.

Paulina 3:38

Um so as I mentioned since our last meeting we've or since we started the campaign, we've had a lot of events and activations. Um That we've been able to celebrate and put together and as part of the campaign where the mission meets the moment, the last two STEM and night markets. Um and then I don't know if Elisa's ready. We'll go into I'll turn it over her to her to do a debrief on STEM and night markets.

Unknown 5:01

All right. So That is STEM. We are so grateful to have been able to put together such a beautiful event that was extremely well attended. I'm actually going to toss it over to Rachel really quick from Library. This was an effort that was collaboratively put on with Library as the lead. city manager's office supporting. So I really want to toss it over to April to just talk about her experience, uh, library's experience putting this together. And then we'll talk over some uh key elements of um the event, wrap-up elements of the event.

Rachel 5:46

Thank you. We're happy it's over. It was a great event. Um, I think we looked at um about 8,000 plus people coming. Um, tons of robots. I think the highlight definitely, if you want to go to the next slide, it kind of shows some of the highlights in text. But John was great. He brought he was on that picture right there. He brought a lot of