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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - Mail Packet - 09/10/2024 - Futures Committee Agenda – September 9, 2024 Council Committee Agenda Item Summary – City of Fort Collins Page 1 of 2 September 9, 2024 AGENDA Futures Committee REMOTE VIA ZOOM, 4:30-6:00PM, Monday September 9, 2024 Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://fcgov.zoom.us/j/91533678032 Or One tap mobile:     US: +17209289299,,91533678032#  or +12532158782,,91533678032# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: 1 720 928 9299  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656 Webinar ID: 915 3367 8032     International numbers available: https://fcgov.zoom.us/u/abwdB4CpBR For Technical Assistance please call: 970-221-6505 CALL MEETING TO ORDER 4:30pm- 4:35pm Facilitated by Melanie Potyondy ROLL CALL, APPROVAL OF JUNE 10, 2024 MINUTES 4:35- 4:40pm Facilitated by Caryn Champine DISCUSSION ITEM: The Future of Building a Talent Pipeline, with Sue Schafer, Volunteer Services Program Manager 4:45-5:45pm Facilitated by Melanie Potyondy There is no doubt that a proactive approach to engaging younger community members allows us to reap the benefits of recruiting a new generation of employees. In this session, Sue Schafer will discuss how the City of Fort Collins is currently innovating with the talent pipeline in our community through the volunteer and internship programs. As a partner in PSD’s Future Ready initiatives, Fort Collins Volunteer Services launched the NextGenServe teen volunteer program that introduces teens to municipal careers. Our internship program also provides an entry point for students to learn City systems and network and build social capital. We will also look ahead to explore how we can be future ready for more innovation in building a talent pipeline. ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE UPDATES 5:45-6:00pm Facilitated by Caryn Champine Report back from German Marshall Fund Convening – Kelly DiMartino, City Manager Preview of November 2024 Session Explore additional topics for 2025 Council Committee Agenda Item Summary – City of Fort Collins Page 2 of 2 COMMITTEE MEMBERS Councilmember Julie Pignataro Councilmember Melanie Potyondy Councilmember Tricia Canonico Staff Liaison: Caryn Champine, Director Planning, Development and Transportation Staff Support: Melina Dempsey, FCMoves text 1 CITY OF FORT COLLINS FUTURES COMMITTEE MEETING Date: June 10, 2024 Location: Zoom Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm Committee Members present: Councilmember Melanie Potyondy Councilmember Julie Pignataro Councilmember Susan Gutowsky Additional Council members present: City Staff: Caryn Champine Additional Staff present: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager Theresa Roche, Human Resources Director Shannon Hein, Economic Health Department SeonAh Kendall, Economic Health Department Melina Dempsey, FC Moves Meeting called to order at 4:30pm Approval of Minutes: Councilmember Pignataro moved to approve the April 2024 minutes. Councilmember Gutowsky seconded. Motion passed 3-0. Chairperson Comments: N/A 2 The Future of Economic Health and Community Wealth Building, Neil McInroy, Global Lead for Community Wealth Building at The Democracy Collaborative Topic Overview: Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an economic development model that transforms local economies based on communities having direct ownership and control of their assets. It challenges the failing approaches that have been widely accepted in American economic development and addresses wealth inequality at its core. First articulated by The Democracy Collaborative (TDC) in 2005, CWB takes progressive elements like community land trusts, worker cooperatives, public banking, and more – elements that have previously only existed as one-offs – and supercharges their power, systemically connecting and scaling them to change peoples’ lives and the economic future of our communities. It does so in coordination with local governments, economic development teams, anchor institutions, and community leaders and organizations: helping them to work in harmony, identify what elements are needed, and see the big picture as they replicate successful new tactics. Chair Potyondy introduced Neil McInroy and discussed his work. Community Wealth Building Overview McInroy stated Community Wealth Building is an economic development model that transforms local economies based on communities having more direct ownership and control of their assets. Its long-term goals are economic transformation to produce broadly shared economic prosperity, racial equity, and ecological sustainability. • System change but practical • Deals with the big questions of our time – climate, economic, racial, and democratic • Through small things and issues – local supply chains, housing affordability, poverty, gentrification, cost of living, better wages, etc. • Wealth is a defining feature of all economies • Wealth distribution is incredibly inequitable and concentrated • Money flows – to whom and how is it captured? • Ownership matters: who owns, controls, and benefits from wealth. The goal is to create an economy where wealth is broadly held and locally rooted so financial resources are effectively recirculated The Five Pillars of Community Wealth Building 1. Fair Work: local employee strategy, diversity, equity, belonging, inclusion, guaranteed income, progressive recruitment, universal basic income, union labor hiring 2. Locally Rooted Finance: credit unions, green banks, community investment vehicles, participatory budgeting, public equity, sovereign wealth funds, public funding for cooperative development, pension fund investment/divestment 3. Just Use of Land and Property: community land trusts, land banks, municipal development vehicles, community-owned housing, community benefit agreements placed on developers 4. Progressive Procurement: social/ecological value frameworks/requirements, insourcing of public services, community benefit wish lists, developing democratic ownership/supply, matchmaking services, support for local/democratically owned suppliers 5. Inclusive and Democratic Enterprise: cooperatives, worker-owned cooperatives, conversion to employee ownership of enterprises, social enterprises 3 • Anchor Institutions: buy things, employ people, have financial assets, have land and property assets – important for the CWB journey Case Studies • Cleveland, Ohio: local purchasing: hospital laundry, market garden, fund to support cooperatives • Meadville, Pennsylvania: employee ownership • Chicago, Illinois: housing, food, and manufacturing cooperatives • Preston, England: increasing anchor institution spending through progressive procurement and animating local suppliers to better influence contracts • Scotland: community-owned wind farm, progressive procurement across all anchor institutions • Sydney, Australia: rampant gentrification, looking at different forms of ownership and procurement, community land trust Advancing Community Wealth Building in Your Place • Start with an audit of work across the five pillars • Look at issues and determine where CWB can contribute • Think about how to accelerate positive areas • Action Planning: discover, dream, design, deploy Discussion • Councilmember Potyondy noted Fort Collins has a shop local incentive program throughout the holidays – how to expand to year-round? Better local procurement for the City organization? • Councilmember Potyondy asked what strategies have been successful in other communities around building the sense of intimacy that lends itself to people investing more in their communities – particularly in combating things like online shopping. McInroy replied that comes down to the sense of community. Shopping local can be less about the individual consumer and more about the anchor institutions which are larger levers. • Councilmember Gutowsky commented on the importance of shopping locally and on the growing trend of employees purchasing their companies. Additionally, she commented on the challenge of keeping the people who work in the community housed in the community and on the immigrant population sending wages back to home countries. McInroy commented on examples wherein a certain percentage of wages must be spent locally. • Councilmember Potyondy asked if the City organization’s bidding process prioritizes local labor and/or goods. City Manager DiMartino replied there is not currently a local preference in the City’s purchasing policies, though it has been discussed. Kendall stated staff is looking at purchasing power and at defining what is local in terms of franchise owners. There is an intern working with the City and Larimer County Workforce office to do an asset mapping of where spending is happening. • Kendall stated the City is part of New Growth Innovation Network which is where staff learned about McInroy and his work. • Hein stated work is being done to empower staff to make purchasing decisions to support local while remaining within budget and procurement policies. • Councilmember Potyondy asked if there are any policy options that may be worth exploring in the City’s economic journey, or if there are policy obstacles that are interfering with community wealth building. Kendall replied staff would like to first do a careful analysis or barriers and challenges before making any recommendations in that space. 4 • Councilmember Potyondy commented on the expense of living in Fort Collins and noted there is a work session tomorrow on the second phase of Land Use Code changes related to commercial uses. She asked if there are critical points that may be highlighted around that conversation. McInroy replied it is important to slow gentrification with things like community land trusts, shared ownership across commercial property, and using a development strategy that is more patient and slower. It is important that community wealth building and things like procurement are seen as economic development and health agendas. • Roche’s review of the Community Wealth Building Action Guide – thinking about considering the regional ecosystem. McInroy stated one needs to think about the regional dimension in terms of shared purchasing opportunities. Additionally, community wealth building is not anti- competition, it is pro-competition among local entities. • Councilmember Potyondy commented on the City’s use of in-house workers as well as contractors and asked what conditions would be helpful for a cooperative example to be successful. McInroy replied empowerment and employee ownership is important for a sense of worth. • Councilmember Gutowsky stated it seems Fort Collins is part of the game and thanked McInroy for the presentation. McInroy commented on the importance of future resilience. Additional Items • Councilmember Potyondy discussed the themes for the year: civic engagement and future and resilience of the local workforce. Councilmember Gutwosky made a motion, seconded by Councilmember Potyondy, to adjourn the meeting. Yeas: Potyondy and Gutowsky. Nays: none. THE MOTION CARRIED. Meeting adjourned at 5:45 pm