HomeMy WebLinkAboutTDA Executive Board Meeting March 23 2023
NEW HANOVER COUNTY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Thursday, March 23, 2023
PRESENT: Nicole Jones – Chairman
Kim Hufham – President/CEO
Angela Rhodes -Vice- Chairman
Tom Ullring – Secretary
Eric Credle- Treasurer/NHC CFO
STAFF: Kim Little - Admin. Services Manager/Recording Secretary
Linda Brothers – Senior Financial Analyst, NHC
NHC TDA Board Chairman Nicole Jones called the Executive Committee Meeting
to order at 10 o’clock. The virtual WebEx meeting was initiated at the offices of the
CVB.
ITEM I: APPROVAL OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES- January
18, 2023
\[Motion made by Tom Ullring, seconded by Angela Rhodes and
unanimously accepted to approve the January 18, 2023, Executive
Committee minutes.\]
ITEM II: ARRIVALIST PROPOSAL DISCUSSION- Kim Hufham
This is a onetime report using the data from the year 2022. This was a
banner year for ROT collections and the airport. This will help answer the
question “Where people are going upon arrival at ILM Airport”. The data
will include New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender counties. The
deliverables: number of visits, origin market, snapshot of year. The cost
will be $10,000. The CVB hopes to partnership with the airport to share
the cost.
ITEM III: RESOLUTION HB 524 PROCLAMATION -Kim Hufham
Representative David Rouzer is sponsoring HB 524. This bill creates an
exemption to the restriction on the use of federal funds for certain
shoreline borrow sites within the Coastal Barrier Resources System.
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Specifically, the restriction shall not apply to funds to use a borrow site located within the
system if it has been in use as a borrow site by a coastal storm risk management project
for more than 15 years.
ITEM IV: EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS NOMINATION- Kim Hufham
Slate Of Officers:
Chairman: Nicole Jones
Vice-Chairman: Tom Ullring
Treasurer: Eric Credle
Secretary: Angela Rhodes
ITEM V: OLD/NEW BUSINESS- Kim Hufham
Destination Development Association is the company that will
conduct the Riverwalk assessment. It will cost $26,500 and doesn’t
need a budget amendment. They will conduct this assessment over
5 days in-person in the first week of May. Their study will include
the team conducting secret shoppers’ visits to local businesses,
walking the riverwalk. They will present the findings to the CVB
the last day of their study.
The Wrightsville Beach hotel board representative hasn’t been
advertised because Mary Baggett is still unreachable to submit a
resignation.
ITEM VI: ADJOURNMENT- Nicole Jones
There being no further items, adjournment at approximately 10:30 a.m.
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Kim Hufham, President/CEO Tom Ullring, Secretary
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