 Eileen? I don't feel. I'm glad you're on. No one happened, but there's always something. In her nose. I'm like a little early in this. So. Yes. I don't know what happened, but. There's always something. Board member Anderson. If you would test your audio and visual, that would be wonderful. This is a test. Can you. I can. Wonderful. Thank you. And then there's a test of the. Video. Perfect. Love the background. Member. Thank you. At the end of. I brought. You know, Peter is coming. Or. If you would try your audio, please. Oh, wonderful. Thank you. Please test your audio. That would be wonderful. This is a test. Can you. I can. Wonderful. Thank you. And then there's a test of the. Video. He did reply that he would be so if I. If we want to wait a couple more moments. Yes, he did indicate to me that he was going to be a part of this meeting that he would, he was able to make it. We do have a quorum and I know member Anderson does have a two 30 meeting. So. I don't know how long we want to wait, but we can't wait too long and. Lose the quorum. Well, if we have a quorum, we should probably just proceed and. Well, billing. Well. Peter in as soon as he. Arise. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. Good afternoon, everyone. And. Before we get started, I do have a. Web in our disclosure statement that I have read. So. Calling the meeting to order. And I would like to welcome you all to. In our July 12th special meeting. Of the center was a tourism business improvement area advisory board. Today's meeting is in a virtual setting using the zoom webinar. And welcome Peter. Committee members and staff. Are participating from remote locations and or practicing appropriate. Social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website. And as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item three. Public comments. Or during our public hearing items will be able. To do so by utilizing the raise hand feature. And. To do so by pressing start nine on the phone. They then. Can be given the ability to address that committee. And having said that, I'd like to. Madam secretary, if you please roll. Roll call for us. To. Present. Thank you. Member Rivera. Present. Member Anderson. Present. Member. Present. Right. Present. And let the record reflect that member Venturia is not present. Thank you. And I would like to move on to item three, which is public comments. Madam secretary, do we have any. Public comments. Please. I'd like to move on to item three. I don't know if this time, nor do we have any emails or voicemails for this meeting. All right. Thank you very much. And I'd like to move on to. Actually. New business item three. So item three point one. We'll be the review and approval of the 2020, 2021. Annual report. And the 2021, 2022 work plan. We put together this report every year around this time and we are actually would like to have a discussion on approving the report and such and here's the opportunity to do so. So Eileen is going to help us kind of go through the document. I will give some quick highlights of each of the sections and then we are free to provide comments, recommendations, suggestions, edits until we get to the approval time. All right so thank you for that and Eileen if we could go through the document briefly. So we got I see your first few pages you could maybe I didn't flag it. The first few sections of course talks about the the assessment and the percentages and how the BIA was established and then I have a section here under which is Eileen sorry page five impact and recovery where we provide some just quick messages and content on the challenges that we endured during the 2020 pandemic situation, economic impact. The section also talks about recovery. We do highlight maybe in a paragraph or two about the glass fire so that was also something critical to point out in this report. Again it's brief it's not very elaborate but then on page six we move on to the opening of a few hotels in addition to our stock inventory here in the city of Santa Rosa and we briefly mentioned the renovations that were done to the Flamingo Hotel which was actually built back in 1957. We did talk a little bit about the briefly about the hotels removed from the active inventory due to the action taken by the county and wanting to an interest in wanting to house or provide temporary shelter to vulnerable populations homeless individuals and folks that needed to go through quarantine and then we move on to the financial summary. I did have to adjust some information related to our BIA numbers and later on our TOT table which by the end of our fiscal year those numbers are readjusted or modified. In the financial section two you'll see Visit Santa Rosa's report from 2020 the financial summary I just say and then we move on to just the typical items that we include in this report which is the how the the board is comprised and who are who are the current members and whatnot and then we move on to a section that's label tourism industry indicators. A lot of this information comes comes from resources that are available through the Sonoma County Tourism as well as the Economic Development Board's Tourism report or report on on tourism and hospitality industry and you know the challenge here is getting the numbers that are reported for 2020 since those numbers are usually not available when by the time we put this report together so we even though we have access to the 2019 reports and trends and graphs it was a little bit of a challenge collecting data for 2020 however we did manage to include a couple of items related to occupancy rate in 2020, hotel average daily rate for 2020 and again some of the other challenges that in trends that we saw during the year of the when the pandemic was very intensified. I mean if we could continue on and I guess pass through the the graphs that report information on 2019 and that takes us over to accomplishments section of course these accomplishments were modified due to the pandemic and other unforeseen troubles in our county with including the glass fire but we did think outside of the box during the pandemic year and came out with the downtown open and open program helping merchants and restaurants survive during this difficult time. There's something there mentioned about insideoutthere.com and then we have some other highlights related to the business and also accomplishments there's a couple of sections there typically these sections are are much longer however we did it looks like there were some modifications made therefore some less bullet points but behind the scenes business center was also very active in trying to do what they could do to promote business and visits in in San Rosa even though everyone's everyone's had they stay at home orders. There is a section there talking about the top articles it comes stops around the end of June but this is also very proactive with coming up with many of these articles in partnership with other local and nationwide publishers and as you can see there there's also another section for the 2020 accomplishments under business center which has had to do a lot with their crisis response approach where they implemented the three steps which include response recovery resiliency so phenomenal work that the business staff from business center also did during the period of the pandemic which is still we're still under but of course with the vaccine coming into play it has eased a lot of the restrictions and has also gotten rid of the color tears statewide as well as the county one. Accomplishments we even though we resented some of the funds that we had approved early in January 2020 we had to many of these events were canceled by the event organizers so we're hoping to regroup again and have that those funds available for this new fiscal year and begin approving the event support applications so as we begin to open up we look forward to seeing more events here in Santa Rosa and then looking ahead there's a section there where it talks a little bit about the financing and the budgets and again this is all this could potentially be adjusted for COVID so you'll see there that currently the city of Santa Rosa is working with third plateau to strategize to go through a strategic plan and incorporate SRT-VIA goals into that plan so we can have a new refresh approach to reaching visitors that come to Santa Rosa and in addition to that the initiatives under this Santa Rosa are also very nicely laid out and they include business recovery, market Santa Rosa as a premier overnight destination, attract, retain, and grow group and events and it provides an update on the California Welcome Center which has remained closed during the entire time of the pandemic and that is pretty much a quick overview of this year's report with the upcoming work plan. The item will be presented at the August or City Council meeting. I mean I don't remember if it's now consent or if we're actually doing a presentation but we'll be prepared to do a presentation and Brad I think I gave you a heads up regarding the potential presentation so we'll be ready to go in case the item doesn't go under consent so at this point I'd like to know if there are any comments or discussions and then I'll open it up for the public if there are any members of the public here on the call. There are no hands raised from the public at this time. All right so if there aren't any other comments or suggestions or edits I'd like to hear a motion any of you on approving the annual report for 2020-2021 and the work plan physical year 2021-2022. I'd be happy to make that motion just a quick point of clarification the attachment that is available through Legistar and the version that you went through just now look like they might be a little bit different and I'm sorry go ahead. I just want to I apologize and there were updates made and the version on Legistar is the most current version. Great so I would I would move to approve the most current version that is available to the public on Legistar. All second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right so motion passes unanimously and a motion approved. That pretty much concludes our special meeting. I look forward to seeing you on July 22nd. I think we have a couple of applications and the approval event is from our last meeting. So I'd like to thank you all very much and I look forward to seeing you soon. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Good to see you guys. Thank you.