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Economic Development Committee Meeting October 24, 2018
Town Hall Annex Board Room
In Attendance: Jennifer Del Vaglio, John Stype, Rona Smith, Sara Garretson
Excused: Donielle Cardinale, Denis Noncarrow
Minute Approval - The committee approved minutes from July and August with some grammatical
changes.
Topics Discussed
Staffing, employee rates increasing, housing issues (houses to expensive and not enough rentals),
and the impact on businesses locally.
Business Resource Center – development of concept
Business in-take was discussed – it was suggested to group questions by category, add a budget
question, and a revenue stream question.
Business Resource Center concept is not ready to take to the Board. New target date of
December.
The committee is going to revisit the John McClean tool kit. (John Stype to locate the tool Kit –
Jennifer Del Vaglio will bring copies to the next meeting). We will refamiliarize the committee
with what was created and see how we can use this tool going forward.
New York Economic Development Committee was mentioned as a resource for the Business
Resource Center – John Stype will reach out to see if they can come meet with the Committee.
Stony Brook Small Business Development Center – was mentioned as another potential resource
for Southold Economic Development Committee to reach out to. We will familiarize ourselves
with what they do and can offer. Sara will reach out to see if Stony Brook Small Business
Development Center might be able to come to a future committee meeting to discuss their
programs.
NEW idea is posed to include what we can incorporate from the Stony Brook Small Business
Development Center and arrange an annex locally (perhaps Cutchogue Library).
We are exploring the idea of linking up with Stony Brook Small Business Development Center to
see if they can provide support/guidance for start-up businesses or existing businesses that want
to expand (ie. helping with business plans and applications for incentives available, etc). This
would enable the EDC to have a deliverable attached to our local Business Resource Center
concept.
ACTION ITEMS:
Sara Garretson will reach out to Stony Brook Small Business Development Center to find
out more of what they do and see if they might be able to come and meet with the committee.
John Stype is going to dig up the John McClain tool kit and connect with the NY Economic
Development Committee to see if they might be able to come to a Southold Economic
Development Committee meeting.
Jennifer Del Vaglio – will regroup the Business in-take form and compose the minutes form
this meeting.
Meeting concluded at 3:30 pm