HomeMy WebLinkAboutCEDC Minutes 2016-09-07 RegularFriendswood Community and Economic Development Committee
Meeting Minutes
September 7, 2016
The Friendswood Community and Economic Development Committee met on Wednesday,
September 7, 2016 at 8:30 a.m., in the second floor conference room of City Hall, 910 S.
Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, Texas, with the following members present: Chair Pauline
Moore, Vice Chair Marcus Perry, Brett Banfield, Lorrie Foreman, Skip Evans, Gary Kay, and
Jennifer Whitley.
Staff member present was Karen Capps.
Absent from the meeting were Bill Provenzano and Dr. Hilmar Zeissig.
1. Call to Order. The meeting was called to order by Chair Pauline Moore at 8:34 a.m.
2. Roll call was made. There was a quorum.
3. Approval of Minutes
Brett Banfield made a motion to approve the August 3, 2016 meeting minutes. The motion was
seconded by Lorrie Foreman and it passed unanimously in the committee.
4. Discussion and possible action regarding planning and goal setting for the Community
and Economic Development Committee.
The committee discussed performance metrics and determined that the following would be
economic development metric measures: 80/20 residential/commercial property tax base, sales
tax increase/decrease, value of overall property tax base year over year increase or decrease.
The committee discussed the format of meeting and asked that liaisons provide quarterly reports at
the end of their meetings at 9:30 a.m.
The committee discussed overall goals and will focus on three geographical areas: Downtown,
FM 528 area, and the Panhandle. At upcoming meetings, the committee will review the current
status of the three areas to assess any recommendations and future steps in order to encourage
commercial development. October's meeting will focus on the downtown area.
Reports from liaisons were discussed. The CEDC would like to continue to receive monthly
reports from Planning and Zoning and schedule quarterly reports beginning from all other liaisons.
The quarterly liaison reports will begin at 9:30 a.m. after CEDC agenda items are finished.
5. Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 10:38 a.m