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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOktoberfest - Community Advisory Council - 2022-09-29- IMELINE T en Dave , Carol Sherban Noon - man (Mark Crowell), Keary - ESPONSIBILITY R Ian McLean, e that a and f Lorentz, great time. longer Geof Alex Kinsella, Janet Kunsch, Ow “muscle no it heritage the community have a Kiefer, I call ghts on that? W arlWe have found . erman Kate is our VC to help K Thursday, September 29, 2022Kate Kane G olunteerfest. Like all people V for Rob Kerr), ’s the direction.throughout Collins, Diane Freeman, John Good Reinhard Schmidt, Nicky Schroder our t ’s : enjoy the festival. We want to :that. IME T & Peter Zinck German for the day or the month ’s great and and it highlighted how fun Oktoberfest is ’t matter where we stopped, everyone ATE ECORDER 20 are very active. DR CTION A can come and &ter ways to do People we rely on in the past are . ’s so much people can get involved with and enjoy. Don Willcox, generally terson, Michele Saran, eople , 9 OINTS P Pe P 01 due to the two years of inactivity find bet how we proceed into the future 2 cussion; There We attracted people through ew it would be hard coming back. to ult involvement. Didn organizations. Does anyone have insi y. Weaver kn Jack Bishop, Paul Buttinger, Mike ion. Russell, Bill Creighton, Greg Durocher, e - look at ISCUSSION W open dis unity and how they can be D re diffic n community EY Michaud, Lois K ur , we have had the opportunity to look at things over the past 2 years. active event execution Linda Jutzi, andardizat , enjoy the food and become members. Tha Richard Hepditch and easy entr st , update and new to the country and community Tim Anderson, cted Christine for the community nda; wants a ple events are finding volunteers are difficult to come by. That ach out to o is something that does that. and no meetings prior to the last festival age peo great we Hallam, – neration. At the heart, it will stay Bavarian and celebrateand execution is mo Cayenne, latz – P friendly INUTES en Berry Vrbanovic, - and unique festival , and not just Oktoberfest. to first CAC meeting since October There is a lack of connection to and it has affe M . Dietmar Biselli, Helen Chimirri ” through the family neral want them to come out it was time to give an Club (Jaegerstube) Glen Walker, Shannon Weber, Kristin elcome illkommen oes ’s important to the community. We want olunteerism CTION owrick, Allan rying to be accessible to our comm elt nteresting We W2 years pandemicF(everyone introduced themselves)GICan concentrate on it being accessible as possible. We know itWunderwagloved it. We met and how we can reWget the next gehave T V in gewould like to move this agenda forward. Itbring us some policies and volunteer organizations, for every 100 volunteers lot of planning memoryavailable A ed L ncordia o Community Advisory CouncilCAlfrHenning Grumme, Neil Hoffman (for Tracey Hanke), Margo Jones, Mike Matich (Lackenbauer, Tracy Van KalsbeekStephanie Egan, GaryKirby, Harry VogtNeil Aitchison, Schnider, : ort ) ) : Rep ’s s Report ayenne r’ BSENT EGRETS OMMITTEERESENT OCATION ISCUSSED C CL PRA D lan AlAlfred Lowrick TEM IIntroductionsPresident(Executive Directo( IMELINE T ESPONSIBILITY R d as an and day . th our - is g to the to -ember together title and need as usual town on put any structure have a look at of the festival official ke M on Sept spin out down anchors to to n he ouncil . We named our s also Dave T aus Parade to so programmed.’ C Oktoberfest It day. is al . the two here that needs to be marketing new floats to introduceMiss len great ion Santa Cl l are tournament if you want to have nominations in perating the building and moved into 2 King will run in the ari se olf aturday. C programs. last weekend stream S ingeman has a new s what he has done. B It was a from We have . The in Cambridge. Everyone enjoyed it. . be available for other community . rillfest y ’s not what we need. We no longer ve started. Deadline G 4 this the Toronto - . Club revenue on 9 and 10. The parade is on the 10 awa Waterloo . It will be in downtown Galt Queen Street h t the annual g is 9 CTION senior financial and legal focus. Day orts ha with 6 , A The rederick St e off F & ’t telling yet! where tourists can come in and take advantage of involvement kicked off. Kitchener a visit. ’s great, but it with our volunteer structure. Schwaben family day We had Market s the oversite and the O week. OINTS latz We ar omen of the Year a one at P P rketing eff ooking forward to new town the e aren W at noon. th chairs We commend Mark for believe there is a and erfest waben Club and Bingeman After the Festival we will look how period has b We are working down le. Ma . as of last . ommen We are l ISCUSSION D raising. t. in illk on Wednesday the on the 7 at Sch S . Many have city hall now have our s Okto EY ’ th efforts eekend Bingeman is running Friday and Saturday. Our plan is to have the Ambassador named at the end of the festival. K lt years dates so far. We are moving w success so far: the last 2 weeks. . 2 marshals but w in the midd and 8 on King City Hall , one at Mayor maypole th form rketing kicked off the nomination will occurring Wunderwagen has been built and it will . We still some o difficu – coming ma s for our parade.the plat and tw – will be new e us a call and you can come for There This a is ringing hourly will be a good way to bring people into the core of the city and the eer tents - - intent is to have W that will be ’ve had Kitchener t – rom ’s been hectic it I latz 0 It erickton and goes to ?. 2 b We are no longer on Benton. It was too big. We sold theThe Oktoberfest board is now governance P 1 – at Program he e are focused on sponsorship and grants. We have moved from accreditation not only for Oktoberfest. We the festival : -- nt and a large stage outdoors. ck f T last big hurrah! f the year and had a good time at gen –w offering W will start the 7 aterloo the Operating Council. The board doe g Tap . on ? - Oct ’s village to this new and 10. We have 10 candi eg tapping ne W is tore. by en – ffice k as well. – OBoard am lans and execution th y actually be too small it was so successful. ’s there large te y hall . It was sold out in a week. A lot of community th th a illkommen done estesthallen KWO Street West; the old Bank of Montreal building. Ithave a s KWO Festhallen what Wunderwa festivals examined Ambassador TracJaworskiCambridge opening is wi where we are. Givis the p Financial to explore funding of will be going forward. We are talking to Explore Waterloo and the Festhal Official Ke tapping volunteer oOne Fstarts on Fred W the 7FBavarian Parade we come badevelop Glockenspiel From events weIt ma12Octoberprogr ny questions A ISCUSSED D TEM I IMELINE T ESPONSIBILITY R . t had from two re years It is a weekend an ing to the Is this a go in the employees se every . We have . generated there? bbage rolls are is activities during activation; Founder gated? to keep ntonline out next week. are open this day latz will be open. We will - P e done events in 3 hem reinvestment t W we . ’ t one nsorship and grants a differe k ig tails and ca so far this year on IDtoberfest at the museum October c P income generation. The s a ’ Spo . The in with the museum. It is - treams are being Che es; remote work and lkommen en . It and K il – e W fest ft opening. lleng a part of venue s CTION initiative e A s year dl Market R responded to tober & partnership nice so income generati ech village in the middle; trying well T OINTS well thi P lub joint Last minute tickets are expected to do well. Things s are sold out. Come out and check us out. Christkin are going well and we expect a full hou as will be playing. We haven ee access? Is the ere are 2 big cha Bavarian sales ily day Waterloo, we need the whole 10. We are in ISCUSSION - ntown where everyone comes. What else . There will be a press release coming D ated events will play Ostanek e provide some start. We had a programs G EY s still early. ’ K Ticket . er dowwill look like revenue generation. We want tourists to be able to go downtown before y to get back to normal. We missed it. cor lt s an opportunity to connect and get to know each other. . It It are bringing back ’ tual n t good I and expect 500 attending. We have people coming in from different Wa children 3 are going well. Working on volunteers and we our grants other er. – ntow well and going back to 2019. Ticket sales are really good. We are sold out ome vir ca oth od. I think there will be a big response to the parade. Thanks for putting Alpine and Transylvania C is open events and fr things dow ve had a techCity events have been really t have a festival without income generation. with bands and the ’ go ’ ing – – s – registered cused for uni ration event. wefamily and second fam do can you have 2 tents fo – – aus in the . Speaking with Explore main stages but there is a demonstration stag well. We are happ really y there. h stage so we 2 and Charles. there are s omm It’s en 2 us – –- emphasis purchased with –C Oktoberfest. – ). halls – – th knowing each w. waben 9 sential but we need e energ - Paul revenue stream?Alfred programming going all day. income geneAlexhouse in the afternoon. We have 300regions. We have an open house. Thnot VictoriaTim Andersonrecord numbers. It should be a banner year in the Festhallparade is thAlfred ww Sch and our first ConcordiaHubert have our menu from before.night.Hapsburghaus esassetsexplaining this in more detailbeerMargo Allen Festhallthe day.Alfred (7on most of the good nightsare going ISCUSSED D TEM IFesthallen IMELINE T ESPONSIBILITY R . can nic . en s . ’ ar kve our ce ’ you I them as hat policies s on the 5 ye welcome ’ - t. Record contribute are involve next wee s a 3 It has to start ’ to feel welcome festival so s great adviestival. T le can F t seem that these eth want the numbers ’ at peop fore the Most people feel nt to do is be authentic be om provide . y are asked they People, in their afe . We want them us, but we need to e We may do it next year. It . just after the festival while it is fresh in together tival rwagen.. to meet so th CTION job and you were able to pivo A . eel when the t see themselves in the ’ f the nucl & seen over and over again. It unde ble people in this ro this year We will get a memo out to you replicated throughout the region. Festhall vited need to know the exact purpose of the es OINTS DEI. One thing we wa P get from l situation. They really just pass tz ck RIDE programs la ca and the W start in January do have supports and teams in place to support y s at this ta breakfast this year.P advantage of. VIP ro e re being in/. You did a great and ISCUSSION latz people that don Wext. See how the events and activities fit in with the ve talked about that too. We are looking at all our cip e looking at. D P ’ with the new vision in place. Compare it to the last 52 years, feedba ear need to put an agenda Y EY taken Rogers Focus on the topics you want us to deal with. K cont new vision has to be a lot of illkommen volunteer Should we continue to meet like this? Should we have committeee. We o see it n place. trudel production already done. the t see a res a new vision going forward. ’ S might want to – illkommen parade route re i s ee W at? ou giving information then it needs to be earlier in the year. d to bring in training for Y parked the omen of the can come out and experience the fes n in the past. We had the best feedback a There are t know if it will come back. this is the r leaders in the region and people event ’ we with us. We are actually working hard on this. We want to do it right. cle. - y – on W outreach to ethnic minorities to the Region yet? Doesn and the agenda. s great advic have a plan i ’ has to be seen in at the board level we hem nominations. Congrats again on that. understanding is the d like to s ’ t Everyone has t being made. I ins t work. The any we . ’ yes my thatwe should be the people who a including the you are just great – quarterly– Maybe we need representative –s good about W ––– if it choosing ntly ’ – celebrate ––– en en RPS this the right form was s t curreMike Colltable but I donIbreakdowns?Vic early in the cVic committee, Allan bring back the information we arWunderCardOwen communities are participating. We can still have well. Allto update twhen we are approaching communities. They need to feel sat the Festival. whatneighbourhoods,and spoken to otheunauthentic. They donincreased. They feel they are WeventsPaul number of Vic strategy. strategyit doesnAllan Itheir minds.All ISCUSSED D TEM IFuture of the CAC?Q & A IMELINE T ESPONSIBILITY R We events. this year and nity responds to orward from that. successful s. is fabulou CTION sponse and move f A move the Festival forward in a positive & Ottawa OINTS and P year to evaluate how our commu t be in our own bubble. Most people will tell you can’ Toronto ISCUSSION , s a good D ’ t EY K feedback. We need to we are hoping to keep an eye on what is Montreal Communitech for bringing people outside the community to our t critical Commend – are at their capacity and replicate them going forward. Ithe Festival. We need to be open minded to the rewill see what happens this year. We good things and noway.Margo Bringing people in from pm ISCUSSED D TEM Meeting closed at 1:16 I