1 00:00:10,73 --> 00:00:13,00 Well thank you everyone and I hope I get 2 00:00:13,01 --> 00:00:19,19 a chance to thank all of you for being here at some point today. I don't want to 3 00:00:19,20 --> 00:00:25,94 keep you too long but. You know this is. What I'm trying to do feels 4 00:00:25,95 --> 00:00:27,88 very important to our city on 5 00:00:27,89 --> 00:00:33,24 a number of levels and I'll speak to that here but thank you so much for being here 6 00:00:33,24 --> 00:00:39,29 . Today I'm joined by representatives from the Governor's Office of Economic 7 00:00:39,30 --> 00:00:46,07 Development the Economic Development Corporation of Utah World Trade Center Utah 8 00:00:46,60 --> 00:00:53,06 the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce the Downtown Alliance and visit Salt Lake 9 00:00:53,61 --> 00:00:59,80 educators from the University of Utah Westminster College and Salt Lake Community 10 00:00:59,81 --> 00:01:06,72 College innovators of our startup culture from hollow that representatives 11 00:01:07,04 --> 00:01:13,80 of iconic city businesses like squatters pubs and beers and major corporations like 12 00:01:13,81 --> 00:01:20,71 Goldman Sachs and Zion's bank community members from local first Utah 13 00:01:21,02 --> 00:01:27,97 the Arts Council and the Business Advisory Board and leaders representing our 14 00:01:27,98 --> 00:01:34,82 city's multicultural businesses from the Asian African-American Hispanic 15 00:01:34,99 --> 00:01:41,16 and Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce and small business owners and council 16 00:01:41,17 --> 00:01:47,75 member Derek kitchen thank you for being here. Thank you all for coming you'll be 17 00:01:47,76 --> 00:01:52,28 hearing from some of those who are here to be with us today in just 18 00:01:52,29 --> 00:01:58,68 a few minutes but I wanted to start by saying we are gathered here 19 00:01:58,69 --> 00:02:05,62 today to launch the nationwide search for the new business and economic development 20 00:02:05,63 --> 00:02:08,40 director position this is 21 00:02:08,41 --> 00:02:15,15 a key position for our city and for my cabinet which is reflected by those who have 22 00:02:15,16 --> 00:02:21,96 joined me here today so Lake City's economy is strong we enjoy one of the nation's 23 00:02:21,97 --> 00:02:28,78 lowest rates of unemployment and our near and long term job growth prospects 24 00:02:28,92 --> 00:02:35,40 are expected to outpace the national average we are consistently ranked as one of 25 00:02:35,41 --> 00:02:42,23 the most business friendly cities our workforce is diverse well educated and 26 00:02:42,27 --> 00:02:49,01 often multilingual we have over fifteen thousand businesses in our city 27 00:02:49,28 --> 00:02:55,13 which generate more than sixty million dollars in revenue revenue that helps pay 28 00:02:55,14 --> 00:03:01,02 for parks arts public safety roads lighting snow removal and more. 29 00:03:02,27 --> 00:03:09,12 And there is still opportunity but make no mistake about it there is competition 30 00:03:09,95 --> 00:03:14,54 to stay competitive and a global economy Salt Lake City must develop 31 00:03:14,58 --> 00:03:21,30 a strong strategic economic development plan and we must develop an economic 32 00:03:21,34 --> 00:03:27,80 identity. It will be critical for us to work together in the development of our 33 00:03:27,81 --> 00:03:32,26 economy as I said in my state of the city address 34 00:03:32,49 --> 00:03:39,01 a First up will be evaluating the economic development division and turning it 35 00:03:39,02 --> 00:03:40,64 into a department 36 00:03:41,19 --> 00:03:48,19 a move necessary to ensure the person we are searching for now has the capital to 37 00:03:48,20 --> 00:03:53,00 align our city agencies from the airport and the R.T.A. 38 00:03:53,30 --> 00:04:00,24 And our arts and business communities all of us here today will do what we can 39 00:04:00,29 --> 00:04:05,95 to ensure the person we select as Salt Lake City's new business and economic 40 00:04:05,96 --> 00:04:12,52 development director has the tools necessary to succeed. Salt Lake City is 41 00:04:12,53 --> 00:04:15,57 a unique place and we are looking for 42 00:04:15,58 --> 00:04:22,04 a uniquely qualified individual to lead an individual who can work collaboratively 43 00:04:22,08 --> 00:04:28,43 with key stakeholders including the city council A and government officials 44 00:04:28,47 --> 00:04:34,91 economic and ethnically diverse constituents city employees and leaders from local 45 00:04:34,92 --> 00:04:41,52 business arts and religious communities and individuals who recognizes and it hears 46 00:04:41,53 --> 00:04:48,50 to the values of Salt Lake City we are an arts culture we are diverse we hold 47 00:04:48,51 --> 00:04:54,66 ourselves accountable we are civically engaged and we care about the environment 48 00:04:54,79 --> 00:04:58,15 our neighbors and our families we have 49 00:04:58,16 --> 00:05:04,91 a pioneering spirit of entrepreneurial ism and we are looking for another pioneer 50 00:05:04,98 --> 00:05:11,58 to join our team now I will go and to our next speaker was Derek 51 00:05:11,59 --> 00:05:12,70 kitchen give you 52 00:05:12,71 --> 00:05:19,55 a few minutes to talk on behalf of the Council thank you again for being thank you 53 00:05:19,55 --> 00:05:19,55 . 54 00:05:28,20 --> 00:05:32,93 Thank you for the opportunity for having me here today to talk about something that 55 00:05:32,94 --> 00:05:37,54 is critical and important to the future of all of us something that is 56 00:05:37,55 --> 00:05:44,41 multigenerational Salt Lake City is the economic engine of Utah it has the state's 57 00:05:44,45 --> 00:05:50,59 state's three largest job centers downtown the University of Utah and the airport 58 00:05:50,60 --> 00:05:57,53 area the city council is dedicated to building on this base the council 59 00:05:57,55 --> 00:06:03,45 is pleased to be launching an audit initiated by last year's Council to examine the 60 00:06:03,45 --> 00:06:08,41 city's current building permit ing and inspection programs identifying 61 00:06:08,45 --> 00:06:13,96 opportunities to streamline and improve these services. We're thrilled that the 62 00:06:13,97 --> 00:06:19,54 mayor will be joining us in shaping this audit and moving it forward the council 63 00:06:19,55 --> 00:06:24,44 identified economic development as one of its three principal priorities for action 64 00:06:24,45 --> 00:06:28,37 this year developing and implementing a citywide 65 00:06:28,38 --> 00:06:31,15 a strategic economic development plan was 66 00:06:31,16 --> 00:06:36,90 a unanimous choice for all council members this will build on powerful efforts like 67 00:06:36,91 --> 00:06:43,68 the enter enterprise S L C memorandum that was headed by not only Gawker here which 68 00:06:43,89 --> 00:06:45,16 will really kick us off in 69 00:06:45,17 --> 00:06:53,58 a really strong Thank you Natalie. As 70 00:06:53,59 --> 00:06:58,63 a small business owner myself I have heard time and again from my colleagues in the 71 00:06:58,64 --> 00:07:04,26 small business community that our systems need to improve input from local 72 00:07:04,28 --> 00:07:10,46 businesses will be important in measuring our success and economic development now 73 00:07:10,47 --> 00:07:13,94 it's time to advance these ideas under the leadership of 74 00:07:13,95 --> 00:07:17,55 a new mayor the council will carefully consider 75 00:07:17,56 --> 00:07:22,71 a number of budget policy and ordinance issues in the coming months as we continue 76 00:07:22,72 --> 00:07:28,78 to work on economic development it's an exciting time in Salt Lake City our 77 00:07:28,79 --> 00:07:34,96 downtown and many other business districts both large and small are bustling we're 78 00:07:34,97 --> 00:07:40,80 moving forward we have the momentum and now is our opportunity we're excited to 79 00:07:40,81 --> 00:07:45,66 work together to make Salt Lake City even greater because Salt Lake City belongs to 80 00:07:45,67 --> 00:07:47,82 all of Utah thank you very much. 81 00:07:52,02 --> 00:07:58,79 Put. I'd like to introduce. Who is the 82 00:07:58,80 --> 00:08:03,63 executive director of go ahead and Jeff Edwards who's the president Economic 83 00:08:03,64 --> 00:08:05,46 Development Corporation of Utah. 84 00:08:14,14 --> 00:08:14,43 About 85 00:08:14,44 --> 00:08:20,35 a year ago I met with then candidate. To talk about economic development in Salt 86 00:08:20,36 --> 00:08:25,85 Lake City I was very impressed with her passion for and commitment to economic 87 00:08:25,86 --> 00:08:31,89 development and now that she's Mayor I have no doubt that this new position will 88 00:08:31,90 --> 00:08:35,01 have her full support and it will be 89 00:08:35,05 --> 00:08:38,27 a priority here in the city which I think is going to be 90 00:08:38,28 --> 00:08:43,89 a great thing not just for the city but for the entire state as has been mentioned 91 00:08:44,34 --> 00:08:50,10 Salt Lake City is the capital city it is the the city that many people focus on 92 00:08:50,11 --> 00:08:56,45 when they talk about Utah So Mayor congratulations on this were excited to see who 93 00:08:56,46 --> 00:09:01,20 you end up. Choosing and we're excited to work with them in our office and we 94 00:09:01,21 --> 00:09:06,42 pledge our support and full commitment to try to make Salt Lake City be one of the 95 00:09:06,43 --> 00:09:11,71 most favorable cities in the country for business and economic development. 96 00:09:14,18 --> 00:09:21,03 Are the. Ones The mayor said My name is Jeff Edwards 97 00:09:21,04 --> 00:09:24,50 with economic development corporation of Utah and if you know about our mission 98 00:09:25,03 --> 00:09:29,90 that is to bring new jobs and capital investment to our entire state Salt Lake City 99 00:09:29,91 --> 00:09:30,08 was 100 00:09:30,09 --> 00:09:34,03 a founding member of our organization over thirty years ago and we could not be in 101 00:09:34,04 --> 00:09:36,75 the position we are today with the amazing success as 102 00:09:36,79 --> 00:09:41,72 a state without the city's longtime support of economic development efforts as 103 00:09:41,99 --> 00:09:45,77 stated just a few minutes ago the entire state benefits from 104 00:09:45,78 --> 00:09:50,30 a dynamic and strong capital city regardless of where you are in the state having 105 00:09:50,31 --> 00:09:54,08 a strong capital city is essential to that and I think I really applaud the mayor 106 00:09:54,09 --> 00:09:57,83 for making this important move to return the economic development to the cabinet 107 00:09:57,84 --> 00:10:01,60 level and to get the attention it deserves inside the mayor's office inside of city 108 00:10:01,61 --> 00:10:06,98 government I think with this move city can become engaged in responsive part of the 109 00:10:06,99 --> 00:10:11,16 economic development community very much part of the conversation. A trusted 110 00:10:11,17 --> 00:10:15,72 regional partner and real true thought leaders in economic development and I think 111 00:10:15,73 --> 00:10:18,62 I've seen that in the mayor already and I'm really anxious to see that move forward 112 00:10:18,63 --> 00:10:23,69 with this with this new person it will help us seek and actually bring the talent 113 00:10:24,00 --> 00:10:26,54 and the talented people that we need to grow our economy as 114 00:10:26,55 --> 00:10:30,99 a state and we stand ready and pledge along with the governor's office to recruit 115 00:10:31,00 --> 00:10:34,61 the right kinds of companies and help grow solid citizen economy and at the same 116 00:10:34,62 --> 00:10:37,02 time helping our state to prosper thanks very much. 117 00:10:44,93 --> 00:10:50,91 So Taissa. That's OK I'm happy to know. 118 00:10:52,31 --> 00:10:57,07 My name is Jason Mathis and I'm the executive director of Salt Lake City's downtown 119 00:10:57,08 --> 00:11:01,36 Alliance and the executive vice president of the Salt Lake chamber speaking on 120 00:11:01,37 --> 00:11:05,53 behalf of the chamber and the seventy five hundred businesses we represent 121 00:11:05,72 --> 00:11:10,36 throughout the state we want to say how pleased we are that we are focusing so much 122 00:11:10,37 --> 00:11:14,10 on economic development it probably will not surprise you that the Chamber of 123 00:11:14,11 --> 00:11:15,52 Commerce would be excited about 124 00:11:15,53 --> 00:11:19,53 a focus on economic development. Salt Lake City is in 125 00:11:19,54 --> 00:11:24,10 a great spot as members. And yet we know that we can do better that we can 126 00:11:24,11 --> 00:11:28,70 absolutely improve the economic climate that we can make it easier for businesses 127 00:11:28,71 --> 00:11:34,08 to succeed in our community and we are very very pleased about this direction and 128 00:11:34,09 --> 00:11:36,55 the decision to put economic development at 129 00:11:36,56 --> 00:11:41,58 a cabinet level place and members could see cabinet and we're excited to see what 130 00:11:41,59 --> 00:11:46,24 happens and what the future holds and we pledge our support to help work closely 131 00:11:46,38 --> 00:11:50,81 with this new department and this new employee to help ensure success for you toss 132 00:11:50,82 --> 00:11:57,81 Capital City thanks very much and it is now my pleasure. To introduce James 133 00:11:57,82 --> 00:12:01,59 Jackson the third the Board chairman of the Utah African-American Chamber of 134 00:12:01,60 --> 00:12:06,05 Commerce. Thank you Jason is 135 00:12:06,06 --> 00:12:09,95 a dating site and about this new opportunities coming into Solich city since the 136 00:12:09,96 --> 00:12:13,18 Utah after American Chamber of Commerce inception back in two thousand and nine 137 00:12:13,66 --> 00:12:18,52 we've actually seen the Utah after America population nearly doubled to today is 138 00:12:18,53 --> 00:12:21,96 not just because the jobs are here but we're also discovering new businesses that 139 00:12:21,97 --> 00:12:25,97 are coming in and we're providing the resources and opportunity to help them grow 140 00:12:25,98 --> 00:12:29,87 and succeed but we know that there is definitely more work that can be done as the 141 00:12:29,88 --> 00:12:31,66 work cited to be 142 00:12:31,67 --> 00:12:36,90 a part of this and see how the new economic development director can increase the 143 00:12:36,91 --> 00:12:38,12 diversity as it's becoming 144 00:12:38,13 --> 00:12:42,41 a growing trend within the state of Utah overall Now you see more and more 145 00:12:42,42 --> 00:12:46,85 diversity coming here so we're deflect sighted and hopefully that looking forward 146 00:12:46,86 --> 00:12:51,47 to the new direction that we have within the economic development so now introduce 147 00:12:51,61 --> 00:12:58,60 Judy call in marketing director of squatters and watch out for of the. 148 00:13:00,09 --> 00:13:03,94 Thank you James and thank you Mayor biscuit Steve for inviting me to speak today 149 00:13:04,49 --> 00:13:08,07 having been in business in Salt Lake City since one thousand nine hundred nine with 150 00:13:08,08 --> 00:13:13,81 the opening of squatters brewpub we've seen tremendous change in our city and also 151 00:13:13,82 --> 00:13:18,89 the associated successes and challenges that have come with those changes and we 152 00:13:18,90 --> 00:13:20,76 recognize the importance of 153 00:13:20,77 --> 00:13:25,10 a strong relationship between Salt Lake City government and local businesses is the 154 00:13:25,11 --> 00:13:29,63 driver of our economy because we as a company understand the value of 155 00:13:29,64 --> 00:13:34,75 a sustainable economic vitality we are one hundred percent behind the mayor's plan 156 00:13:34,76 --> 00:13:38,42 to elevate the division of economic development to a to 157 00:13:38,47 --> 00:13:41,28 a cabinet department and for the mayor to conduct 158 00:13:41,29 --> 00:13:45,78 a search for the right individual who will help lead us into the future we greatly 159 00:13:45,79 --> 00:13:49,11 appreciate the mayor's desire and vision to develop 160 00:13:49,12 --> 00:13:54,22 a long term strategic plan that will foster continued energy innovation and 161 00:13:54,23 --> 00:13:58,07 business growth in Salt Lake City and we really look forward to working with the 162 00:13:58,08 --> 00:14:03,63 mayor the department and the new director so thank you Mayor for taking this very 163 00:14:03,64 --> 00:14:09,91 large. And we look forward to the future and I'd like to now introduce Denise Hough 164 00:14:09,92 --> 00:14:12,46 to Len who is the president of solar community called. 165 00:14:13,76 --> 00:14:19,23 Thank you to have to meet everyone and it's 166 00:14:19,24 --> 00:14:21,38 a pleasure to be with you this afternoon and 167 00:14:21,39 --> 00:14:25,78 a pleasure to stand with. The president of Salt Lake Community College to talk 168 00:14:25,79 --> 00:14:29,67 about the importance of this position whether you know it or not Salt Lake 169 00:14:29,68 --> 00:14:34,17 Community College has ten sites across Salt Lake County and five of those sites 170 00:14:34,18 --> 00:14:39,00 reside within Salt Lake City so the importance of education and relevant training 171 00:14:39,01 --> 00:14:44,39 for everything from fashion design to diesel technology to business to aviation to 172 00:14:44,40 --> 00:14:49,79 aerospace Salt Lake Community colleges community is committed to training those 173 00:14:49,98 --> 00:14:54,39 students in every responsive affordable and accessible way and as soon as she was 174 00:14:54,40 --> 00:14:58,74 announced as mayor Mayor reached out to me as president to say how do we partner 175 00:14:58,75 --> 00:15:03,28 even better to get an educated workforce and to make sure that they stay in Utah 176 00:15:03,54 --> 00:15:07,78 and can contribute to the quality of life here and the qualities of our community 177 00:15:08,05 --> 00:15:11,83 and to the economy so solly community college is thrilled to be part of this 178 00:15:11,84 --> 00:15:14,51 announcement and to stand with the mayor to say to 179 00:15:14,52 --> 00:15:18,31 a new director of economic development how do we partner with you how can sell that 180 00:15:18,32 --> 00:15:22,98 community college best align our education and training to meet the needs of what 181 00:15:22,99 --> 00:15:27,69 our industry partners needs need and to do so in a really affordable way it's 182 00:15:27,70 --> 00:15:31,86 a delight for us to be with the mayor today in this announcement I'm with you all 183 00:15:32,14 --> 00:15:36,24 and with that I'd like to introduce Natalie Gardner the associate dean in the David 184 00:15:36,25 --> 00:15:40,38 Ackles School of Business and the director of the camcorder Policy Institute at the 185 00:15:40,39 --> 00:15:46,67 University of Utah thanks 186 00:15:47,17 --> 00:15:52,56 I'm very pleased to add my voice to the decision today to do 187 00:15:52,57 --> 00:15:57,77 a national search to bring in economic leadership to our state last year I was 188 00:15:57,78 --> 00:16:02,70 privileged at the Eccles school to help Salt Lake City with an inventory of what 189 00:16:02,71 --> 00:16:06,59 was happening in economic. Element something called Enterprise S.L.C. 190 00:16:07,17 --> 00:16:11,49 And during that process I talked to over seventy business and community leaders 191 00:16:11,80 --> 00:16:18,79 about the city and I really learned two main things one is the incredible promise 192 00:16:18,90 --> 00:16:22,36 of this city the ability of this city to have 193 00:16:22,37 --> 00:16:28,82 a very prosperous future and then secondly the need for this city to provide state 194 00:16:28,83 --> 00:16:33,88 wide economic leadership and that is to understand that Salt Lake City holds 195 00:16:33,89 --> 00:16:39,46 a privileged place in our state as the capital city it is the center for commerce 196 00:16:39,80 --> 00:16:45,97 the Center for Transportation the Center for finance. And it has remarkable 197 00:16:46,35 --> 00:16:51,80 education assets like Salt Lake Community College any PAC twelve University of Utah 198 00:16:52,71 --> 00:16:59,46 wearing red today. And how do you take those assets and deploy them for the 199 00:16:59,47 --> 00:17:03,70 benefit of this entire state I'll just add one other very important asset it's 200 00:17:03,71 --> 00:17:08,73 a global city an international city and in doing that by making this 201 00:17:08,74 --> 00:17:13,27 a cabinet level position that reports directly to the mayor you elevate the stature 202 00:17:13,31 --> 00:17:18,44 of economic leadership in the city and by doing so I think we will help the entire 203 00:17:18,45 --> 00:17:24,46 state so I want to command mayor before her leadership in this regard and I also 204 00:17:24,47 --> 00:17:31,33 just want to make one small pitch to not let the process take too long. And I say 205 00:17:31,34 --> 00:17:32,34 that because this is 206 00:17:32,35 --> 00:17:35,86 a city on the rise and we're ready for that leadership right now thank you very 207 00:17:35,87 --> 00:17:41,70 much thank you 208 00:17:42,63 --> 00:17:48,35 again thank you everyone for being here I'm happy to take questions and I'm sure 209 00:17:48,36 --> 00:17:51,73 others are as well but I don't know that we need to be so formal. 210 00:18:03,73 --> 00:18:06,36 You know we have not landed on 211 00:18:06,37 --> 00:18:13,27 a dollar yet. That will be decided and and this position will be posted this 212 00:18:13,28 --> 00:18:20,28 week. We are hoping that we can offer enough money to really recruit 213 00:18:20,75 --> 00:18:27,65 someone significant into this role and and. And 214 00:18:27,70 --> 00:18:34,47 realizing the task at hand is pretty significant word department needs to be 215 00:18:34,48 --> 00:18:35,20 developed in 216 00:18:35,21 --> 00:18:42,03 a very diverse fashion I believe we need to incorporate leadership within this new 217 00:18:42,04 --> 00:18:48,95 department that. Willing clude international trade small business support and 218 00:18:49,23 --> 00:18:51,43 advocacy I think there is 219 00:18:51,44 --> 00:18:56,73 a lot of work to be done just in the developing of our new department. 220 00:18:58,25 --> 00:19:03,97 So hopefully we will be able to show up with the dollars that will be needed. 221 00:19:07,43 --> 00:19:08,19 Last question. 222 00:19:32,72 --> 00:19:38,03 Absolutely it is. There is a real shift here I as 223 00:19:38,04 --> 00:19:44,32 a legislator I was very focused on our state economy I served on economic 224 00:19:44,33 --> 00:19:49,83 development appropriations for thirteen years on Capitol Hill I understand the 225 00:19:49,84 --> 00:19:56,76 extreme importance that our capital city plays in our economy and the importance 226 00:19:56,77 --> 00:19:59,19 that we actually step up to the plate in 227 00:19:59,20 --> 00:20:05,08 a much higher fashion than we have in the past and take our role 228 00:20:05,64 --> 00:20:07,61 extremely serious in building 229 00:20:07,75 --> 00:20:14,75 a strong economy not just in our city but for the state and the other 230 00:20:14,76 --> 00:20:19,81 questions. OK Well thank you again for coming I appreciate the support.