Prosperity 2021FY 2012 Projects

Neighborhoods – Our Primary Focus

• Neighborhood Signs, Gateways, and Medians

• Neighborhoods Assessment and Plan

Keep Palm Coast Beautiful

• Building Permit Fee Discount Program

• Get a Neighbor, Get a Perk Program*

• Welcome Home Program*• Community Development

Block Grant Program

Encourage Home Ownership and Reinvestment

• Renew ½ Cent Sales Tax

Provide Quality Services

Districts – Create Great and Vibrant Places

• Continue to Use as Venue for Public and Special Events

• Bulldog Drive Improvements

• Additional Central Park Improvements

Downtown District

• Continue to Engage FAA Center

• Redevelopment Planning

• Old Kings Road Projects

• Special Area Master Plan

Commercial Districts

• Marketing Assistance for Economic Development

Business Districts

• Coordinate and Promote Local Events

• Pedestrian/Bicycle Master Plan Implementation

• Florida Agricultural Museum Support

• Non-Gov. Website w/Social Media*

• Create Branding/Marketing Strategy & Program*

• Sporting Events Attraction/Marketing

• Trails Map and Guide

Let the Secret Out

• Minority Business Assistance

• Annual Multi-Cultural Event for All Groups

Celebrate our Diversity

• Aggressively Pursue Grants

• Expand Fiber Optic Network

• Expand Transportation Network

Invest in Capital Projects

City and Region

Make our City Attractive and Competitive

City and Region

Make our City Attractive and Competitive

• Support our Partners (SCORE and SBDC)

• Business Assistance Center

• Business Services Web Portal

Assist our Small Businesses

• Procurement Outreach and Assistance

Makes Business Sense

• Partnership with EDO (Flagler County)

• Bounty for Business Program*

• Business Park Partnership Program*

Encourage Job Creation

FY 2012 ProjectsProsperity 2021

• City Council Budgeted $50,000 in FY2012 for Prosperity 2021 Specific Projects

• Engage Powerful Marketing Force <$15,000• Create Branding/Marketing Strategy & Program• Welcome Home Program (Electronic Postcard Campaign)• Non-Governmental Website with Social Media• Get a Neighbor, Get a Perk Program• Bounty for Business Program

• Business Park Partnership Program (Now Business Ready Program) • $25,000 – Further Review by City Council

• Other Economic Development Projects – Misc. BAC Efforts, etc. (Remainder $10,000)

Bounty for Business Program

• Original Proposal by Councilmen Meeker (August 2010)• Staff Proposal Presented at Workshop (January 2011)• City Council Direction from Workshop (January 2011)• City Council Goals Published (May 2011)• City Council Budget Approval (September 2011)• Revised Staff Proposal (Today)

You can find them in Palm Coast.

Looking for “Better Days”?

And to keep the interest of the posse, you’d offer a reward.

In the Old Days, if you wanted to bring somebody back to

town, you’d hire a posse, and go get’em.

Using strong performance based objectives, we create a posse of residents, 75,000 strong (when I last checked), and offer a bounty or “reward” to them when they help relocate an existing business to Palm Coast. The reward will be based on

the number of employees at Day 0 through Day 1000, spread out over

accomplished milestones for the next 3 years.

Key concepts, the business must already have an established track record in

another town, the number of employees who come to town must stay the same or increase, it’s a three year deal, and the business must relocate within the city

limits of Palm Coast.

So, apply the concept to “Economic Development”

The Long Term Goal is to increase the number of commercial and industrial businesses in Palm Coast to prevent

the city from going the way of Deadwood (as seen below).

So how does it work?Well, the devil is in the details, but in general:

1) Somebody locates a prospective business and encourages them to re-locate to Palm Coast

2) Representing the new business, they enter into a contract with the city. The city offer a bounty of $1000 per employee when the business lasts three years in the city. The money is paid out at various milestones, for example:

a) $200 per employee the day the relocated business opens up their doors (and has a business tax receipt, a lease of 12 months on a building or a building of their own, and a validated number of employees).

b) at the end of the first year, a $300 per employee bounty is paid if they are still in business.

c) at the end of three years, if they are still in business, the bounty is paid off at $500 per employee.

Here’s an example.

We create a posse of 75,000 interested citizens by offering a financial incentive to go and seek out individuals interested in moving their businesses to Palm Coast. They scatter

to the four winds in the hopes they will be one of the lucky ones to find a willing

prospect that meets the city’s strict, but as yet undefined requirements.

Watch how this “go getter” does

it.Mr. Canfield here is a retired executive kind of guy who has a lot of contacts with small businesses in the north east and a lot of time on his bored hands. He takes the most rapid form of transportation available, goes up to meet the owners, and convinces them Better Days will reside in Palm Coast with lower taxes and a better style of living than exists where they are. They agree, and Mr. Canfield enters into a contract with the City.

Mr. Canfield knows we’re not interested in guys like Butch Cassidy,

The Sundance Kid and the Wild Bunch

We’re looking for honest, hard working business people like those already living in Palm

Coast. Entrepreneurs and the like with a positive attitude and

a strong work ethic.

We want people with new ideas and the will to succeed.

People like, well,…these guys who invented a better,

…canon.

On the day they open up their business, providing program

guidelines and other contractual specifics are met, Mr. Canfield

received a check represented by the total number of employees relocating to the town times

$200. In this case, Mr. Canfield would receive a check for $2000.

Mr. Canfield 10 employees times $200 per employee

Day 0

At the end of the first year, if the business is still going and the number employees is

equal to or greater than the starting number, Mr. Canfield receives another

check for $3000 ($300 x 10 employees)

Day 365

If after three years, the company is still local, and still in business, and the number of employees is the same or greater than where we started, Mr. Canfield

receives his last and final check, for $5000 and probably goes out and buys a new horse.

Day 1095

Mr. Canfield is happy, he loves his new horse, we’ve helped lower local unemployment, increased the tax base, filled up an empty store front, and started to

address the lopsided ratio of residential to commercial/industrial we keep talking about.

And if nobody takes us up on the deal, we haven’t spent any money!

We get some kind of Presidential Award for

fixing our own problems without using federal

stimulus money!

I would also propose the first year budget be set at

no more than $250,000

From there, we move onto the next great idea.

Questions or Comments?

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REWARDNew Existing Businesses

Up to $1000 per employee

WANTED

Bounty for BusinessPresented January 2011 to City Council

Program Concept• Reward Citizens that Recruit Businesses to Palm CoastProgram Guidelines• Must be Primary Jobs (Qualified Target Industry, Produce

Items/Services Primarily Sold Outside the Region)• Must be New Businesses to Palm Coast and from Outside Flagler

County• Minimum 5 Jobs to Qualify• No Financial Interest in Business or Related Real Estate

Transaction(s)Reward Levels*5+ Jobs Established for Minimum of 1 Year = $100 City Perk

Dollars (Golf Course, Tennis Center, Special Events, Local Bike Shop, Ag Museum, and Other Possibilities)

11+ Jobs Established for Minimum of 2 Years = $1,000 Dollars51+ Jobs Established for Minimum of 3 Years = $2,000 Dollars101+ Jobs Established for Minimum of 5 Years = $3,000 Dollars*Levels are Additive If New Business Grows*Rewards Dependent Upon Availability of Funding

RequiresCity Council Approval

Bounty for Business Program

• City Council Workshop Direction/Discussion (January 2011)• Discussion on Eligibility

• Realtors• Citizens• Residents• Anyone that Brings Business to Palm Coast

• Discussion on Bounty Amounts and Types (cash and non-cash)• Follow Up Requested with Realtors Association• No Consensus on City Staff Proposal

• Economic Development Priorities Have Evolved• Prosperity 2021 – Low Hanging Fruit First• Focus on Existing Business Community through BAC• Business Recruitment Focus Shifted to County from Enterprise Flagler• City Council Approved $50,000 for Prosperity 2021 Projects (FY2012)

Bounty for Business Program

• Bounty for Business Program Positive Aspects• Activates the Posse (75,000 Strong)• Encourages the Posse to Grow Local Economy• Reinforces Community Spirit “Grassroots Effort”• People Driven versus Government Driven• Recognizes Citizen Recruitment Efforts

75,000 Citizens

Powerful Marketing

Force

Bounty for Business Program

Locally Funded Grant $$$ (Bounty) - Issues/Unintended Consequences• Program Design – Application, Guidelines, Contract, Monitoring Guidelines, Appeals• Eligibility – Real Estate Brokers (Ethics), Chamber of Commerce, BAC Staff, City Employees,

County Employees, Loan Officers, Hospital Employees , etc.• Fraud Concerns – Identifying and Proving Responsible Party• Monitoring , Tracking, and Oversight

• Staff Time, Ability• Collection of Sensitive Documents• Business Desire to Provide Documents

• Front Page Test• Types of Businesses (SOBs, Pain Management, Pawn Shops)• Incentives to Recruit Businesses that Compete with Existing Businesses• Conflict of Interest (Personal, Business Relationship w/City Staff & Elected Officials)• If Not But For Grant- Would business have located here without grant?

• Other Issues• Audit Requirements , Public Records Requests, Grant is Taxable Income, Appeal

Process, Dispute Resolution

75,000 Citizens

Reach Millions

Activating the Posse

Powerful Marketing

Force

Let the Secret Out• Non-Governmental

Website with Social Media

• Create Branding/Marketing Strategy & Program

Encourage Homeownership and Reinvestment• Get a Neighbor, Get a

Perk Program• Welcome Home

Program

Encourage Job Creation• Bounty for Business

Program

Engage Powerful Marketing Force

Activate the Posse

• Create Branding/Marketing Strategy & Program• Find Your Florida Brand Identity• Brand Guidelines• Marketing Strategy

• How you Found Your Florida in Palm Coast? Campaign• Social Media and Email Marketing Campaign

• Welcome Home Program (Electronic Postcard Campaign)• Email Marketing Campaign and Video

• Non-Governmental Website with Social Media• www.discoverpalmcoast.com

• Get a Neighbor, Get a Perk Program• Call to Action – Sign Up Friends and Family for Email Marketing, Join Facebook

Group, Share Palm Coast Event Pictures• Bounty for Business Program

• Recognition Program – Find Your Florida Merchandise, Golf Outings, Tennis Outings, Guided Bike Rides, Etc.