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Board of Legislators County Office Building, Room 201
7 Court Street
Belmont, New York 14813
Phone: 585-268-9222
PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA
July 18, 2018
1. Approval of Minutes - June 20, 2018
2. Craig Clark, Economic Development/ Industrial Development Agency
- Monthly Report
3. H. Kier Dirlam, Planning Director - Monthly Report - EDA Project Priorities
4. Gretchen Hanchett, GACCC Executive Director
- Monthly Report
5. Reita Sobeck-Lynch, Employment & Training Director - Monthly Report
6. Allegany County Telecommunications Development Corporation Appointments
7. Old Business
- Tabled Discussion on “Residents, Businesses, Volunteers, and School Assemblies” - Update on “Working with Higher Education Systems and Other Industries to Address Assisting
Spouses Relocating to the Area with Job Placement by Providing a Call Center for Assistance with Helping to Improve the Quality of Life” referral
8. New Business
9. Questions from the Media
10. Good of the Order
11. Adjournment
Office of Development
Crossroads Center
6087 NYS Route 19N
Belmont, NY 14813
Ph: 585-268-7472
Fax: 585-268-7473
July 2018 Report
Angela McKay Assistant Director of Economic Development and Planning started work
Long Term Projects Crossroads project
Still working with ESD on incentives.
Developers confirmed to be ready when incentive is finished.
Construction starting in the Fall 2018 depends on ESD incentives. Waterline
Water line moved to assure easements are acceptable to landowners.
Continue to work with Engineer for the 2018 construction.
Friendship continues to work cooperatively on project. GE Lufkin facility
ACIDA Pilot with PM Research for signing. Bioenergy Development and Commercialization Center (BDCC)
BDCC now has state and federal funding for $12.4 million required for the project.
Discussing additional partners for the project. -Talking to SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Sunstrand Sustainable materials in Louisville, Kentucky.
Finalizing MOU on the last $6.6 million needed for the project. ANGEL fund
Continue to have regular meetings on progress.
Looking for investors to fund up to $1 million.
Plan is to have shares of the fund available in the fall. SIEMENS – Dresser Rand
Continue to talk to ESD, local, state, and federal legislators on project.
Continue to talk to SIEMENS and Curtis Wright on future prospects.
Office of Development
Crossroads Center
6087 NYS Route 19N
Belmont, NY 14813
Ph: 585-268-7472
Fax: 585-268-7473
Travel
At the Community Colleges of Appalachia Conference, June 10-12 – elected to Chair of the Board.
Attended Select USA, June 20-22, 2018 conference in Washington, DC to attract foreign investments.
Met with Sunstrand sustainable materials and First Build in Louisville, Kentucky.
Meetings Invest Buffalo Niagara Board meeting attended June 7th in Buffalo.
Advertising Three Expansion Solutions Magazine ads
Ad in July Issue was placed.
Focusing on manufacturing, distribution, and advanced manufacturing.
Results in leads when they attend trade shows. Digital Advertising
Reviewing for future plans for digital marketing.
Marketing Recent article on economic development discussed Maker City visit in weekend newspaper.
Site Selectors have proposal for next phase to attract companies to the county.
We respond to notices from Invest Buffalo Niagara when they are looking for property and leads for companies that want to reside in Western NY.
Continuing to develop the list of potential buildings and land for development in the county.
The Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant for Alfred submitted.
Continued work with the Seneca Nation on filling the Tracewell facility near Cuba.
Maker City recommended Allegany County Economic Development Committee to develop a program to engage students and alumni at the three colleges regarding employment and economic development in Allegany County.
Young Professionals group to restart as part of the Maker City report and be part of the Allegany County Economic Development Committee.
Maker City Project funded by the Allegany County Economic Steering Committee.
Innovation based economic development to renew and reinvent local economies.
Meeting took place May 16-18, 2018.
Report was reviewed, to include additional work on Branding, Young Professionals, Improving Communities, and Developing Entrepreneurship culture working with the community.
Office of Development
Crossroads Center
6087 NYS Route 19N
Belmont, NY 14813
Ph: 585-268-7472
Fax: 585-268-7473
2018 Goals
Monthly positive press and stories for Allegany County and from Allegany County.
Crossroads Development - start construction in 2018.
Crossroads waterline – start construction in 2018.
Tracewell building – fill with a working company.
BDCC - continue engineering, planning and start rehabilitation building.
Develop adequate last mile providers for internet access.
Current business – monthly positive stories and support expansion/retention.
Travel – continue state, national and international connections.
Meetings – Invest Buffalo Niagara to visit Allegany County.
Meetings - regular input from Allegany County Young professionals.
Marketing – continue to improve economic development section on website and social media.
Marketing – fully develop plan to keep current college graduates and attract alumni to return.
Site Selectors – labor shed demographics and implement their proposed plan to attract companies.
Needs
Develop resources for additional incentives.
Develop project ready sites as per site selector’s suggestions.
Review and improve ease of fast tracking permits on sites.
Investigate development of spec building.
Office of Planning 6087 NYS Route 19N
Belmont, NY 14813 585-268-7472
July 2018 Report Office of Planning Projects: A. General Planning:
• There is no County Planning Board meeting scheduled for tonight July 18, 2018. • The Town and Village of Almond boards are currently reviewing their draft Comprehensive Plan.
Meeting with them this month to discuss any changes and procedures for approval. • Held the training workshop on SEQR with NYMIR for the Planning Board and had about 30 people
attend. B. Shared-Services:
• Reviewed and submitted comments on the Draft Plan to CGR. • Have held conference calls with CGR regarding the progress they are making on the plan and
approvals. • The draft plan was posted to the County website and we notified Towns and Villages of the
availability of the draft. • A Public Hearing was held on June 26 6PM at BOCES with relatively limited attendance. The next
Public Hearings are scheduled for August 13 10AM and 3PM at the legislative chambers. C. GIS [Geographic Information System]:
• We have been working very hard on the LUCA project. We were notified on June 29th that we had a short extension to get our data in to July 17th. By the time of this meeting we should have already submitted this data.
• Have responded to requests for various maps during the month. • Have implemented a trial period program with EagleView to make Pictometry available to County
Departments and the Towns/Villages staff, Fire, Police, etc. If funding in our current budget allows we will extend this service for one year.
D. Administrative • Reviewed audits for Planning, Development and Tourism as well as Payroll. • Completed preparation of the 2019 Budgets for Development and Planning Departments. • Angela McKay started on July 9, 2018 as the Assistant Director of Economic Development and
Planning. • Met with Summer Intern through Employment & Training, started July 9th.
E. Meetings • Presented at the Planning & Economic Development Committee. • Participated in Website Update Conference Calls and the ADA compliance conference calls. • Met with STW for review of the Appalachian Regional Commission applications. We had 13
applications present to the Board. Allegany County was well represented in this year’s applications.
• Prepared for and attended Comprehensive Plan Implementation Group meeting. • Prepared for and attended the Comprehensive Plan Review Committee meeting.
Development Projects: A. County Website:
• Received estimates from Mason Digital and Equatek and approved them to move forward with the Tourism website transition process.
• Participated in conference calls to discuss the County website and the Tourism migration. B. Business Development
• Craig Clark and the Economic Development Steering Committee continued efforts on Maker City. They have identified a handful of priority projects that we are starting to work on.
• Met with the owner of an available facility/building that is interested in assistance in filling the facility.
• EDA Project Priorities: Need Committee approval of the top two projects for EDA priority list. Recommended top 2 projects for this year are [does not require a resolution of the board]:
o Crossroads Development Infrastructure Project and o The Alfred Center for Technology Transfer Project.
Sincerely,
H. Kier Dirlam DIRECTOR - OFFICE OF PLANNING
Planning & Development Committee Tourism Report;
Gretchen Hanchett
6/18
Long Term Projects
1. The Watchful wild life program continues to move forward, now working with ARCHER for the Watchful
wildlife program as they develop the first phase.
Moving forward we will create the rough draft of the core content. As we create the content we will
work to outline areas where there is potential for integration of social platforms, testimonials, and the
adventure packages. (ongoing)
2. Tourism packages; Tourism committee package planning meeting 5/10/18. Deb Root leading the work
meeting. We came up with several packages Steve and I will be working on (Ongoing)
Marketing/ Projects
1. Regional welcome Grand Island center project. Our five counties (Erie, Niagara, Allegany, Cattaraugus, and
Chautauqua) have been discussing plans to create a WNY Region marketing piece for use at the WNY
Welcome Center which will open in August of this year.
(On going)
2. Working with EquaTEK and Mason Digital to transfer Tourism website to County Website a. Developing a plan with EquaTEK for content/digital and website transfer.
b. Meeting held April 19 and a summer content and digital plan was developed.
c. Meeting in June 29th to outline the wireframe
3. “Discover Allegany video” Campaign
4 theme videos
30 Second Video Ad “Outdoor Activities” completed
https://youtu.be/1n7dgRAZr_0
30 Second Video Ad “Local Shopping” New
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHAyh8JT0c&feature=youtu.be
30 Second Video Ad “Local Restaurants
60 second Video Ad “Local Events”
4. Visitor engagement Academy. We are now looking into this program to see if this is a good fit. This
is a needed program that has been talked about for many years. Visitor’s Engagement Academy will
be giving a presentation to CPIG June 14th at 2:00pm at the Crossroads conference center.
Update: The committee asked us to develop some marketing material and gather support for the training program
to ensure interest.
The Wellsville Chamber, Cuba Chamber, Alfred Area Business Ass., and ACCORD will join in sponsoring and
promoting this training to their businesses. We have received many support letters (Jones Memorial Hospital,
Wellsville village, Houghton Collage, Genesee Valley Media, Pekarek Law Group, Literacy West NY, Taxes
ETC., Alco, Michael Cook State farm, Walker Services and Directions in Independent learning. We have not had
a chance to reach out to the realtors, hotels and more as we feel a one on one conversations would be best. See
marketing
5. Erie Cannel Boat Company, Excursion Pods (ExPods) Ongoing
Peter J Abele, owner of the Erie Canal Boat Company. He is very interested in investing his company’s ExPods in
Allegany County. He is hoping to roll out three ExPods in Allegany County in 2019. Next steps will be working
with Genesee River Wilds and the Planning department.
Travel/Events
Future Events & Much more coming… check out the website calendar for more information
www.discoveralleganycounty.com
June 28 Cruise Night, Main Street, Angelica
NY Info: www.visitangelica.com
July 7 Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall Of Fame
Induction, Belfast, NY Info: 585-610-3326
July 7 Lavender Festival, Angelica, NY Info:
www.angelicaboosters.com
July 4 Fourth of July Fest, Andover NY Info:
www.facebook.com/andoverhuly4th
July 14 The Great Wellsville Balloon Rally
Parade, Wellsville, NY Info: 585-593-6070
July 8-14 MostArts Festival, Alfred, NY
Info: www.mostarts.alfres.edu
July 12 Cruise Night, Riverwalk Plaza,
Wellsville Info: www.riverwalkplaza.net
July 14-15 NE 24 Hour Challenge Tall Pines
ATV Park, Andover, NY
www.tallpinesatvpark.com July 8-14
MostArts Festival, Alfred, NY Info:
www.mostarts.alfres.edu
July 12 Cruise Night, Riverwalk Plaza,
Wellsville Info: www.riverwalkplaza.net
July 14-15 NE 24 Hour Challenge Tall Pines
ATV Park, Andover, NY
www.tallpinesatvpark.com
July 20-22 43rd The Great Wellsville Balloon
Rally, Wellsville NY Info:
www.wellsvilleballoonrally.com
July 21 Main Street Festival, Wellsville NY
Info: 585-593-5080
July 16-21 Allegany County Fair, Angelica,
NY Info: www.alleganycountyfair.org
July 26 Angelica Cruise Night, Main Street,
Angelica NY Info: www.visitangelica.com
July N/A Freedom Fair, Friendship, NY
July 28 Mud Prom, Tall Pines ATV Park,
Andover, NY www.tallpinesatvpark.com
August 4-5 Tough Mudder, Tall Pines ATV
Park, Andover NY Info:
www.tallpinesatvpark.com
August 4-5 Heritage Days, Angelica NY Info:
www.visitangelica.com
August 9 Cruise Night, Riverwalk Plaza,
Wellsville NY Info: www.riverwalkplaza.net:
August 11 MusicFest, Wellsville, NY Info:
585-593-5080
Advertising
ADVERTISING FOR JUNE 2018
Full page, August-October Explore NY
Half page in July Jazz magazine
Quarter page in The Patriot, Allegany County Fair Edition
Eighth page in the Spectator Allegany County Fair 2 page spread
Website promotion of local events
WJQZ Tourism Spots
CANADIAN OUTREACH
Break The Ice & Cross Border Showcase
Canadian market.
Digital marketing
Economic Development Team efforts: Support efforts/projects when/where needed.
Maker City Core group
Respectfully submitted Gretchen
Gretchen Hanchett, Executive Director/ Tourism Coordinator
Greater Allegany County Chamber of Commerce & Allegany County Tourism
Employment & Training 7 Wells Lane
Belmont, NY 14813
Ph: 585-268-9240
Fax: 585-268-5176
July 2018 Report
General Information Front Door Traffic: 465
Employment: 3 new full time and 4 new part-time jobs with 7 employers
Unemployment: May rates: Allegany County 5.3%; NYS 3.7%; US 3.6%. Locally 18 new
unemployment claims opened~ 4 fired, 7 layoffs from several employers
Veterans: No Veterans utilized our services.
Business Services: 64 services provided to 41 businesses (1 new business) for outreach, job
listing, follow-up, job matching, referrals, youth work experience & Summer Youth
Employment Program and skills testing. Administered 19 TABE(Test of Adult Basic Education)
tests~ 10 DSS, 8 private industry, 1 Youth
Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP): 57 youth placed at 37 worksites to start in July.
Meetings: County Librarians to plan a Job Fair 8/11, Workforce Development Board,
Chautauqua, Cattaraugus-Allegany Workforce Development Boards with Manufacturers and
Training Providers, Department of Labor WIOA Leadership meeting, Jamestown Community
College Career Advantage
Department of Social Services Contract
458 services provided: Family Assistance 92; Safety Net Family 9; Safety Net 140 and SNAP 217
Safety Net Employment Assessment Class: 12 assessed; 6 completed; 8 denied; exempt and 0 re-applied
Non-Custodial Parent Program: 33 active participants and 17 employed WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act)
Youth: 34 enrolled youth, 26 employed, 1 in training programs, 3 obtained Nursing Assistant Certification and are employed, 4 in work experience and 10 being assessed for work experience.
YTD: Training: $1,475; Supportive Services: $1,180; Work Experience: $11,498 for 10 Youth Training: 4 in training for Dental Assisting and Phlebotomy YTD: Adult (expensed/obligated): $14,984 training and $2,979 supportive services
Dislocated Worker: $5,950 training and $1,000 supportive services Trade Act: 11 Outreach contacts; 3 appointments, 2 in training. YTD: $102,348 spent on
training and $14,274 on relocation for 2 customers Respectfully submitted, Reita Sobeck-Lynch, MPH, Director
Board of Legislators County Office Building, Room 201
7 Court Street
Belmont, New York 14813
Phone: 585-268-9222
Memorandum
TO: Planning & Economic Development Committee
FROM: Brenda Rigby Riehle, Clerk of the Board
DATE: July 6, 2018
RE: Allegany County Telecommunications Development Corporation ________________________________________________________________________
The Chairman of the Board plans to reappoint Philip Curran of Alfred Station, Dwight Fanton of Wellsville, and Brent Reynolds of Alfred Station as members of the Allegany County Telecommunications Development Corporation for another two-year term effective October 1, 2018, and expiring September 30, 2020, subject to confirmation by the Board of Legislators. If the Committee approves of these appointments, please have a motion to that effect included in your minutes, along with a request to the County Attorney to prepare a resolution. In addition, the Chairman should sign the attached pink appointment forms, where indicated, and return them to me. Thank you.
