CHOCVB Board Meeting Minutes 012021

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DocuSign Envelope ID:B2959B23-1DFC-4D77-BF91-33A27D171752 - We're going to issue a survey to our graduates about commencement to gage their comfort level on any type of in-person ceremony and, if we can do in-person,tickets would be limited and would they still be interested if they can't have guests attend? . Kayla Dempsey—Director of Marketing & Develop., North Carolina High School Athletic Association - We are off and running with basketball, which is one of the more higher contact sports so it will be an interesting test. We do have a lot of teams in quarantine. We're holding off on a decision of where to hold basketball championships for now as it is based on school systems and whether we can be at larger facilities and spread out. - Championships in cross country are this weekend in Kernersville. We're keeping them distanced and there is only 100 kids per race when normally there is 300 per race. - We are volleyball at Green Level High School, one of the newest high schools in Wake County, because we were not able to host at Reynolds High School. The volleyball season went well. We had teams that had to quarantine so we had to reschedule games and some teams didn't get to play in the playoffs because they were in quarantine when we seated the playoffs but we did not have any teams contract COVID-19 from the playoffs or that had to forfeit a game due to COVID-19. - Football starts on February 8th. We're in conversations now about what that is going to look like. They are wearing masks when they work out. We have quite a ways to go before football teams are actually playing each other. They are only practicing within their teams and a lot of them are doing pod work. - Lacrosse has started but they are not playing games yet. - Interesting to note that there have not been any COVID-19 cases on our swimming teams and very few in cross country. - As we move forward we continue to monitor guidance from the governor's office and DHHS. •Jon Hartman-Brown—Town of Carrboro, Economic Development - It has been fairly quite since we launched VisitCarrboro.com website. We are working with the TDA to put together a work plan. - Like many of you have mentioned,we have decreases to our revenue and we are making cuts to our budget and trying to work with what we have. - Mayor Lydia Lavelle added that the Town of Carrboro has unveiled two Black Lives Matter murals in town. One on the side of the Community Works building and the other is the words "Black Lives Matter" on the side of the Century Center across from Tyler's. - The 203 Protect continues. Last week we had a presentation from the designers showing the look of the building and the materials. You can see that on our website. The designers also provided a construction management plan that indicates the majority of construction with take place predominantly on-site with few road closings, if any, and as little impact on our local businesses and restaurants in that area. • Dan Mayer—Executive Director,The ArtsCenter - The Arts Center is open for business but at a reduced capacity. - We continue to find partnerships and collaborations where we can make art happen and enable people to connect with the community through art. - We just had a mural we premiered a few months back that was done through community collaboration. This has also enabled the artist to have a virtual exhibit at Carrboro Town Hall. - We have just opened a virtual exhibit talking about food insufficiency in our community. Local photographer,Tom Simon, worked with a group of food organizations and city agencies and it connects people to issues that matter right now. - We are exploring different virtual performances,virtual classes, and continue to want to work with our restaurants and hotel industry to bring back the traffic and opportunity for people to 6 Page CHOCVB BOD Meeting January 20 , 2021