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Home My WebLink About01. VEAC Notes 12-08-2020Public Notice Vail Economic Advisory Council Monthly Meeting Tuesday, December 8, 2020 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Register for Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HSWV76mQQqaThgP53-V1tQ Advanced Registration Required. Click link and you’ll get an email with zoom link ________________________________________________________ AGENDA VEAC Members: Kim Rediker, Michael Lange, Beth Howard, Scott Robson, Chris Romer, Brian Stockmar, Michael Connolly, John Dawsey, Mark Gordon, Heath Harmon, Will Cook, Ben Gilbert, Greg Moffet, Scott Gubrud, Jeff Kennedy (Moes), Samantha Biszantz (Root & Flower), Matt Ivy, Johannes Faessler, Sarah Franke, Alison Wadey, Caitlin Murray, Matt Morgan, Brian Nolan TOV Staff: Scott Robson, Mia Vlaar, Kathleen Halloran, Jeremy Gross, Liz Gladitsch • Public Health Update (20 minutes) • Eagle County Update, Heath Harmon • 6 Eagle County residents hospitalized currently – High number for us • Vail Health Update, Will Cook • We are one of the few counties in the country that have kids in school • Need to get to 70% herd immunity so need to work hard to get adults to take vaccine. • Two dose vaccine • Forefront as distribution center for vaccine. 13-1,900 vaccines coming • Vail Mountain Update, Beth Howard (15 minutes) • 30” down on average snow rate • Guests mostly being compliant with safety protocols • Note from Kim for Town: No one is wearing masks in the garage and they are taking their masks off going from Mountain to town. Consider signage in those areas. • Finance Report, Kathleen Halloran (5 minutes) • Sales tax. Oct and Sept up 9% YOY • YTD collected $19.8M, down 17% YOY • Real Estate record $8.7M up 37% YOY • Construction down $2M, down 18% • Parking pass sales down, Daily sales, up 30% on weekends • Overall revenue down 13% YOY • Budget at crisis level at 27% drop • State Legislative and other Relief Program Opportunities, Chris Romer (10 minutes) • Senate Bill – 100m from general funds for critical response to C19 – PPE supply etc for public health response • Reach out to elected officials to pass a second relief program for a Federal relief • May programs at federal level but If you need contact info, reach out to Chris • Air Update • Maintained flight service from all markets, aside from Salt Lake City due to aircraft availability • EC regional airport dating back to June: Greatly exceeded national average YOY, but still down. October, 94% of historic average vs 37% national average • Avail. Seats stable on YOY basis • 1 week to 10 days is highest booking. Markets doing the best is where disease is under more control or restrictions are less • Town Manager’s Report, Scott Robson (10 minutes) • 2021 budget approved flat with 2020 crisis budget • Relief funds that we’d like to roll over to 2021 • Guest Ambassador program starts up 12/10. Moving to a paid program model because typically the volunteers are an older demographic who are at higher risk. • Seeing 95% compliance on mask wearing in village • Ordinance to limit gathering to one household only ends on Dec. 18 • Transit • from operational standpoint is biggest pain point. New state guidelines to 21 passengers max on busses vs. 50% of length of bus. Max buss capacity is 80-90 on peak time periods with standing on busses. • Will be running piggyback busses so we can load 42 over 2 busses • Synexis systems in place • Five Star Certification Program, Mia Vlaar (10 minutes) • State level Variance Protection Program, certify businesses and allow them to operate one tier lower on state level. Looking to launch state wide variance program. Eagle County is moving forward on how to implement some sort of program. In red, it doesn’t apply. • How can we be sure to request this be changed so it does still apply in red • In holding pattern until Dec. 18 • Looking for a shared finance model for this • Nolan: We should just start adhering to criteria so we can show we can do it and not wait • Community and Commercial Relief Funds, Mia Vlaar (10 minutes) • $130k Community Relief fund for food, shelter and heath, traveling into 2021 budget • Commercial Rent Relief • Has been a bit challenging. Full participation of landlord required. • Looking at a business grant program. • Business can fill out application that states their own situation and Town provide a max per business. Providing broad criteria of what it can be used for. Flexibility is important • Kathleen: Looking at what an appropriate max per business would be. • Maybe scaled model based upon size of the business • Broad group that makes the decision • Looking at a revised plan to provide additional relief • Guest Experience and Early Season Activations, (15 minutes) • Magic of Lights – Sarah Franke • Reserve tickets ahead of time at magicoflightsvail.com • 4-9pm nightly Dec 11 – Jan 24 • Packages available for restaurants and hotels to purchase • Vail Holidays – Jeremy Gross • PrimaVail Training and Employee Engagement - Alison Wadey • 50 spots for Prima Vail participants to experience Magic of Lights Vail on PrimaVail.com • Have spots open for online training at PrimaVail.com • Walking Tours have been well attended (2 so far) • Mental Health module with 27 in attendance from Vail Health • Sustainability/Nordic event on 12/16 • Vail Après/ Bell Ringing – Alison Wadey • CSE Update, Jeremy Gross (5 minutes) • Review of current events happening • VLMD Update, Liz Gladitsch (5 minutes) • VLMDAC interviews take place 12/15 • Citizen Input & Other Business (5 minutes) • Food Truck Pilot Program • One truck in each village, temporarily. Moe’s and Root and Flower as of now • This is about guest service • Designed for grab and go focusing on lunch and weekends Next Meeting Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:00 – 10:00 AM, Zoom Meeting