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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES
April 28, 2010 City of Kitchener
The Economic Development Advisory Committee met this date, chaired by
Jeremy Auger; the following members were in attendance: Councillor Christina
Weylie, Steven Voll, Mark Bingeman, Rebecca Short, Peter Benninger, Brian
Bennett, Bernie Nimer, Adrian Conrad
The following people sent their regrets: Ian Cook, Bob Denton, Alan Anderson,
Howie Budd, Mark Collins
The following people were absent: Len Carter
Staff in attendance: Silvia Di Donato, Terry Boutilier, Tracey DeVille, Siobhan
Delaney, Rod Regier
1.1 Approval of minutes
On motion,
The minutes of March 2010 were approved.
New Business:
2.1 Arts Culture Tourism
Silvia Di Donato provided the committee with an overview of the discussion for
today’s meeting. She reminded everyone and handed out copies of the
presentation that was provided to the committee in February of this year from the
Waterloo Regional Tourism Marketing Corporation (WRTMC). She introduced
Ms. Susan Cudahy from the WRTMC. Ms. Cudahy brought the committee up to
date on the initiatives that WRTMC has been working on and advised that the
region is now the administrators of the new Regional Tourism coordinator for the
newly created Region 4 district.
Silvia Di Donato thanked Ms. Cudahy for the update and provided the committee
with an overview of the discussion that took place at the March Economic
Development Advisory Committee meeting which was attended by members of
the Downtown Advisory Committee and the Arts & Culture Advisory Committee.
She advised that staff worked with Rebecca Short, EDAC member who assisted
in the facilitation of the joint meeting to compile the comments and ideas
received. The following was identified through this process:
Look at options for incentive programs for artists to find
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affordable lease space
Create inventory of ideal artist space
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Consider ‘Arts Property Management” organization to broker
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artist space in different locations
Staff advised the committee that the business side is very important and there
needs to be the attraction by many partners to assist in the success of any
program that may be put into place and how to keep all interested parties
involved.
Due to time constraints, the Committee was advised that the presentation deck
would be circulated and a continuation of the discussion would be held at a later
date.
On motion, the meeting adjourned at 1:10 pm.