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REPORT
Meeting: General Purpose and Administration Committee File # _��c� .1-
Date: Monday, February 20, 1995 Res. # ()P1� 7"5
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Subject: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY UPDATE
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Recommendations:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and
Administration Committee recommend to Council the following:
THAT Report ADMIN-4-95 be received for information.
1 . BACKGROUND
1 . 1 This report summarizes the activities of the Economic
Development Office for the period January 3 , 1995 - January
31, 1995 . At Council' s request, I've changed the format of
the Economic Development Office' s monthly Activity Update for
1995 . I have included a more detailed description of the
office' s main activity areas . For each month in 1995,
descriptions of the previous month' s activities will be
outlined in five categories; Information Requests; Community
Liaison; Advertising/Media Mentions; Known New Businesses and
Other. Please feel free to contact me concerning any
information that requires further clarification.
1 . 2 Information Requests
January represented the office' s busiest month to date with a
total of forty-nine requests for information. Requests for
Development Information from both business and the general
public again represented the largest number of requests
serviced by the office (28) . These requests involve questions
concerning existing Clarington Businesses, Exporting,
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Demographics and other general information about the
municipality. Twelve requests for information concerning
business formations were serviced and nine requests for
information on available commercial and industrial space were
also serviced by staff in January.
1 . 3 Community/Government Liaison
Nineteen opportunities of note occurred under this category in
January. Meetings were held with representatives of the Oshawa
& District Chamber of Commerce (2) , the Economic Development
Liaison Team, the Clarington Business Group, the Bowmanville
BIA, the Rotary Club and the Durham Region Manufacturer' s
Association. As well, opportunity to network with local
businesses was also afforded at the Mayor' s Breakfast also
held in January.
Visitations were made to AVP Extrusions, Cargowall, Regal
Capital Planners, Justin Barry Optical and Gary Polonsky,
President of Durham College . I also attended Durham' s Business
Alliance Network' s Pod B. This meeting involved approximately
forty businesses from across the region searching to develop
strategic alliances . This Alliance Network is sponsored by
Durham Region' s Economic Development Office . The information
and ideas presented at the Pod meetings are quite valuable . I
will be encouraging more Clarington businesses to take part .
Other meetings of note included three meetings with the
Greater Toronto Area Economic Development Partnership Steering
Committee; a meeting of the Durham Region Economic Development
Advisory Committee; a meeting of east Durham Economic
Development Officers; and a meeting with GTA development
personnel planning to attend the Society of Automotive
Engineers Congress . I will be attending this show from
February 27 - March 2 in Detroit . Local manufacturers serving
the automotive industry have been mailed attendance passes to
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the event . I have offered to search for companies that may be
interested in strategic alliances or the products of our local
firms .
1 .4 Advertising/Media Liaison
No advertising was scheduled for January. Media articles
concerning our marketing awards; 1994 industrial absorption;
the GTA Economic Development Partnership and the One-stop
shopping committee occurred in local media. A feature article
on Clarington appeared in the Toronto Star.
1 . 5 Known New Businesses
New businesses that our office became aware of in January
include Sounds Superior, Clipps & Crafts, Hair Studio ' 95,
Live sey Consulting, Pasta Pasta Cafe and I-Con.Net
Communications .
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1 . 6 Other
Other significant activities the office has been involved in
include publication of the winter issue of Report On
Clarington; preparing an annual report; conducting follow-up
phone calls on 1994 leads; and developing our mailing list as
a result of trade show contacts made during the last quarter
of 1994 .
2 . SUMMARY
A summary of the month' s activities is charted below:
Activity Frequency
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Commercial/Industrial Space Requests : 9
Business Formation Requests : 12
Business Information/Public Requests : 28
Community/Business Group Meetings : 10
Industrial Tours/Visits : 2
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Activity Frequency
Commercial/Tourism Visits : 2
Government Consultations : 5
Media Liaison/Mentions : 5
Respectfully submitted, Reviewed by,
Todd Letts, M.B.A. W. H. Stockwell
Economic Development Officer Chief Administrative
Officer
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