ITEM TITLE:
City Manager’s Report 12-1-2020
SUBMITTED BY: Mark Detter, City Manager
FISCAL NOTES:
Expenditure Required: N/A
Unencumbered Balance: N/A
Funding Source: N/A
RECOMMENDATION:
Receive and File.
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The past two weeks my activities have included:
-Serving as Unified Command Incident Commander.
-Working on self-evaluation.
-Working on Business Recovery Grant.
-Attended Economic Diversification Commission meeting.
-Attended CPAC meeting on Comp Plan.
-Took Friday, November 17th as Admin Day and took off Thanksgiving and day after Thanksgiving as City holidays.
The next two weeks will include:
-Working with State of Alaska Small Business Development Center to finalize contract for administration of Business Recovery Grant and preparing FAQs and forms for small business recovery grant.
-Monitoring implementation of Mayor’s COVID-19 Economic Recovery Recommendations.
-Working with Assistant City Manager’s preparing RFQ for Hospital Expansion Master Plan.
A few issues that will occupy December.
-Peter Pan Seafoods is closing a transaction on the sale of their processing plant. The Ports and Harbor Commission and Planning Commission will need to approve new lease agreements and Council will be considering such lease agreements at December 15th meeting. All of these lease updates are in preparation of closing the transaction by December 31st. Peter Pan has stated the transaction should not impact operations.
-The community survey for the Comprehensive Plan will be available on the City of Valdez web site at the beginning of December and be available until the Holidays.