CHOCVB Board Meeting Minutes 102120

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DocuSign Envelope ID:4C1F119C-B709-4D49-82F1-16FE74875645 • Tanya Moore— Associate Vice Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill - Spring semester begins 1/19/2021. Commencement is extended a week to 5/16/2021. The hope and plan is to combine the 2020 graduating class with the 2021 on 5/16/2021. No Spring Break week off. Instead, those five days off will be scattered throughout the semester as "Wellness Days", discouraging people from leaving campus. Coronavirus testing will be different in the Spring than it was in the Fall. It's saliva based and students are a lot more willing to be tested and we are have much better success. - Kevin Guskiewicz has been installed as UNC Chancellor. You can watch his installation here. - UNC has welcomed it's largest first-year class ever, 5,300. - UNC Visitors Center is planning to open with limited hours in the spring. • Kayla Dempsey—Director of Marketing& Develop., North Carolina High School Athletic Association Still set to start High School Athletics officially on November 41"with practices for volleyball and cross-country and then swimming and diving will follow on November 23rd with basketball happening in December. Inside limit is 25 people at an event, not including players, officials, or essential personal. School districts and counties are allowed to be more restrictive. Schools and districts that are allowing fans,we are allowing 25. For outside events, NCHSAA is allowing 100 people in the stands given certain requirements of their stadiums. Outside events don't take effect until February with football and men's soccer. This is all, of course, pending guidelines from Governor Roy Cooper and guidance from the State Health Department. • Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford—Orange County Board of County Commissioners - Logistics Park Development at Old 86 and Interstate 40 approved at last night's BOCC meeting. COVID-19 cases increasing over past two weeks. Please remind everyone about the three Ws— Wear your mask, Wait six feet apart,Wash your hands. - Stressed promoting early voting. - Revaluation is proceeding. For more information click here. Health is a priority right now: - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so please encourage women to get their mammograms. - Get your flu shot. • Shannan Campbell—Economic Development Planner,Town of Hillsborough - Colonial Inn is close to opening. They are planning a soft opening mid-November. - Many of our historic sites have opened back up with limited hours and reservations and tours, limiting the number of people. These have been popular and booking up as people are looking for fun, educational things they can do safely. Burwell School and Orange County Historical Museum have also been doing virtual programing. Looking at hybrid events for the holidays depending on gathering requirements, weather, etc. - Town of Hillsborough Board of Commissioners have been great in supporting local businesses with loosening signage regulations and allowing for expansion onto sidewalks. - Hillsborough Hometown Holiday Festival is still on. Our parade will be virtual. • Beverly Payne—Alliance for a Historic Hillsborough Occoneechee exhibit through March 2021. The Alliance for a Historic Hillsborough has Regulator 250 and their "Streams and Screams"Tour. • Matt Gladdek—Executive Director, Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership - CHDP partnered with the Town of Carrboro on a new mural at 11 N. Merritt Mill Road of Elizabeth Cotten. - Buskers event went off without a hitch this past Saturday and we will keep doing this through the remainder of the year, weather permitting. Everyone socially distanced and it was a big boon for our businesses with people that stayed out and enjoyed the patio for a little longer than normal. Epilogue even paid for an extra hour of the buskers time to stay out there. They have beer and wine they can sell now. 3 1 P a g e CHOCVB BOD Meeting October 21 , 2020