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Greetings!
Thank you to the many members that turned out for our 2012 Annual Meeting! It was a great success and we were pleased to see so many new faces. We would also like to welcome our newest board members and congratulate our 2012 executive committee:
New board members:
John Batey, Pueblo Urban Renewal Authority
Bill Bell, City of Montrose
Mike Braaten, City of Rifle
Beth Kosley, City of Woodland Park
Elaine Mariner, Colorado Creative Industries
Bruce O'Donnell, George K. Baum & Co.
2012 executive board:
Anna Jones, Progressive Urban Management Assoc., President
John Plakorus, Colorado Housing & Finance Authority, Vice-President
Kim Grant, City of Arvada, Past President
Carrie McCool, McCool Development Solutions, Treasurer
Kristin Cypher, Britina Design Group, Secretary
Vicki Mattox, Stifel Nicolaus, At-Large
We all look forward to supporting you in your community revitalization work in 2012!
Cheers!
Katherine Correll
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Legislative Alert:
Urban Renewal TIF Transparency Bill
| Help Us Complete the Urban Renewal Impact Study to Highlight Positive Urban Renewal Case Studies!
A proposed "Urban Renewal TIF Transparency" bill could be introduced with late bill status. If passed this bill would significantly increase reporting requirements. There are also discussions taking place about whether this bill is addressing a true need, if it would increase the red tape and regulations around urban renewal, and whether it would disproportionately impact small, rural communities. What Can You Do?
Review the proposed legislation. Now is the perfect time to review this proposed legislation and contact your legislator to discuss how your urban renewal authority reports to the public through annual reporting, posting audited financials, and other means. To receive a copy of the latest version of the bill, please contact Mark Radtke at the Colorado Municipal League at mradtke@cml.org.Complete the URA Survey for the URA Impact Report. This is also the time to promptly and accurately share your information with Downtown Colorado, Inc. DCI is again partnering with Ricker-Cunningham to collect and share the Urban Renewal Impact Report. URAs who completed this in 2011 have already received an updated survey form. If you received it, please complete it accurately and promptly so that we can begin the process of quantifying how valuable urban renewal is to Colorado. If you did not complete the survey last year, you will receive a new survey in the next two weeks. Once again, time is of the essence, so be sure to respond promptly. For any questions about the URA survey, please contact Anne Ricker at Ricker-Cunningham at anne@rickercunningham.com. Send DCI your case studies. DCI has recently contacted all urban renewal authorities to request that you share your testimonials from small business and property owners and case studies of quality projects that could not have been completed without TIF. Please email director@downtowncoloradoinc.org to share your stories and help us promote you! |
2012 Conference Session Proposals
Due Next Wed, Feb 15
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Conference to Be Held September 12-14, 2012 in Golden, Colorado
DCI is currently requesting proposals for speakers/session for our annual downtown revitalization conference. Session proposals must be submitted electronically through our online submission link below. Deadline is Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
Interest areas include economic and community development topics, including but not limited to economic gardening, training for small and medium businesses, public-private partnerships, URA/DDA/BID innovative projects and impacts, business ambassador programs, partnerships and collaborations, youth leadership programs, integrating diverse groups into planning, marketing and promotions, and parking issues.
Please keep in mind that each session will be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, which should include 10 minutes for audience questions.
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Suggest and Vote on Topics for Round-Table Discussion!
DCI is introducing Round-Table Forums at this year's annual conference. For an entire day one session room will be dedicated to facilitated peer-to-peer exchange round-table discussions.
Why are we doing this? Some of our most successful events feature facilitated peer-to-peer exchange (e.g., our monthly DIDs Forums, our lunch-time dine-arounds at the Annual Conference). Tell us which issues your community is facing and which topics you want to discuss, so we can design a conference that best fits your educational needs!
Submit topic by Friday, March 2: To suggest a topic, send an email detailing the round-table topic to events@downtowncoloradoinc.org (subject: CONFERENCE ROUND-TABLE). Feel free to suggest a facilitator as well if you have any thoughts on who might best moderate the discussion.
Next month we will send out a poll with all of the nominated topics so that you can vote on them. We will announce the round-table conference topics this spring when we release our conference schedule. This is your chance to make our 2012 conference work even better for you! |
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Small Business Opportunity
| Scholarships for October 2012 Entrepreneurship Marketplace
Colorado Rural Development Council (CRDC) is offering scholarships to attend the October 2012 Entrepreneurship Marketplace for small business owners, or people who want to start small businesses. Current or potential entrepreneurs looking to enhance their options for job creation/job retention should contact Michelle Alcott at malcott@ruralcolorado.org for details on how to attend for free! |
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Bulletin Board | Colorado Entrepreneurship Marketplace Seeking Planning Committee Participants
2012 Cigarette Litter Prevention Grants deadline March 14
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Submit all job openings and RFPs by next Monday, Feb 13, to ensure your notice will be included.
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