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City Council Economic Vitality Committee Meeting Minutes October 9, 2025 Page 2of8 BUSINESS MATTERS Economic Vitality Committee 2026 Work Plan Discussion Economic Vitality Manager Vanessa Zarate shared that at the September 2025 EVC meeting, the EVC expressed interest in creating a workplan for 2026. Staff has started to draft potential work plan items to include the business satisfaction survey implementation, which staff will bring forward to EVC with either policy or program amendments or feedback based on information from the business survey. That feedback could inform work around internal incentives or other city policy and programming, or new policy and programming to engage with our partners at the state or federal level with our partners such as Colorado Creative Industries or DOLA Main Street Program. Evaluation of City processes has come up repeatedly concerning mainly the comprehensive plan and the zoning code. We review the incentive policy multiple times per year to ensure the City's incentive policy is meeting business needs. Earlier this year, the EVC saw the proposal for automatic incentives for small scale retail and restaurants and should come to the full City Council for adoption prior to the end of the year. Sundance policies and background and promotions has come up heavily the last couple of months related to transportation needs, timing of construction projects, and all things Sundance. As liaison for both the EVC and LRC Vanessa can ensure those groups work more closely together to identify potential new projects or project areas and what happens with the future of Louisville urban renewal. Collateral and promotion is happening now - specifically getting information out that the City does have staff and resources to help businesses, the website and other collateral to showcase what we can help with. Councilmember Kern commented this comprehensive list to think about and bring together could take the better part of a year. Expressed her thanks. Mayor Leh expressed his thanks and commented that he would like to get this lined out by quarter like what Finance does. Regarding the underpass mitigation, community input will be really valuable. Mayor Leh asked when the satisfaction survey closed. Economic Vitality Manager Zarate advised it will close on October 17th. We have pretty limited responses.