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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES MARCH 26, 1996 Members Present: Tom Potts, Paul Reynolds. Also Present: Wayne Duchemin, ED Coordinator Steve Kyros The meeting was called to order at 7: 15 p.m. The Minutes of March 12, 1996 were passed over due to a lack of quorum. Wayne stated that $5, 959 is remaining in the EDC budget to date. He would like to run an ad in a trade journal or boating magazine to attract businesses like C-Map to Mashpee. Wayne will be meeting this week with the Boston Real Estate broker who has been hired by Augat to market their building. Steve Innis, Paul Reynolds, Tom Potts, and Wayne recently walked through the Augat facility. Steve Kyros expressed an interest in attending this meeting with the realtor; Steve will also get sworn in at Town Hall the same day. Wayne finished the 99 Restaurant letter and will be sending it out tomorrow. Wayne distributed a letter from Gloria Dube expressing an interest to serve on EDC. Wayne noted other potential members for EDC, Cynthia Green of the Soup Kitchen (Mt. Auburn' s recommendation) and Mike Schmidt, owner of a Mayflower Trucking franchise in the Sandwich/Bourne area. Wayne noted that Charlie Connelly from Falmouth expressed interest in a turn key building in the Mashpee Industrial Park. (He is also looking at Plymouth. ) Wayne would like to put in writing all the amenities Mashpee is willing to offer, make a copy, and keep it on file for our marketing effort. Wayne further reported that Anthony Ferragamo' s property was sold to May Institute; Tom asked Wayne to send them a welcome letter. Wayne would like to begin the marketing aspect, developing a lead list, brainstorming to market the community, identify the means and target the community. He plans. to meet with Dr. DeMoura to promote the aquaculture program and navigational/high tech program (cartography) . Wayne distributed a copy of a draft job description of the Economic Development Coordinator position prepared by Marilyn Farren. He also distributed a draft of the Annual Report of the Economic Development Committee which describes what EDC accomplished this year and their future direction. He asked EDC to review it and call him with comments. The Mt. Auburn Report meeting has not yet been scheduled. Wayne has not heard anything regarding the Web Page since the changes were submitted.