City of Chico: Economic Development Program Analysis

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Oakland Partnership A collaborative,
public-private Economic Development
Initiative Leadership Council Presentation
May 1, 2008
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The Oakland Partnership

• What is it?
• Why do we need it?
• Whos involved so far?
• What is the process?
• Next steps

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What is it?

• A five-year economic development development
  effort with annual updates.
• A collaboration of business, government,
  educational institutions, labor, and others.
• To shape (and implement) a work plan for creating
  and sustaining a vibrant, well-balanced economy
  and improving participation in it and access to
  benefits from it.
• This effort is happening in three phases
• analysis
• shaping a collaborative work plan
• implementation

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Why do we need it?

• Oaklands key industries are struggling
• Oakland has missed past opportunities for
  capturing new and emerging industries
• Todays economy is global. To stay competitive
  Oakland and the region must
• Understand our economy
• Shape a vision for our economic future
• Work collaboratively to implement that vision

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Who has been involved so far?

• The Oakland Chamber of Commerce and
  representatives from more than 300 companies
• The Mayor of Oakland and representatives of 9
  Economic Development Task Forces
• Oakland City staff
• Peralta Community College District
• California State University East Bay
• University of California
• The Oakland Unified School District
• The Central Labor Council of Alameda County
  (ILWU, SEIU, Teamsters, and others)
• East Bay Economic Development Alliance
• The Port of Oakland
• Community Based Organizations (Urban Strategies
  Council, RTTC, PIC, YEP, Unity Council, and
  others)
• McKinsey Company
• An Advisory Group to the McKinsey report team
  made of up City staff, Urban Strategies Council,
  EBASE, the Port of Oakland, Peralta, Oakland WIB,
  Policy Link, others

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Cluster co-chairs
Healthcare Life Sciences

• Co Chairs Frank Tiedemann, CEO of Childrens
  Hospital and Bettie Coles, Senior Vice President
  and East Bay Area Manager for Kaiser Permanente.
• Co-Chairs Omar Benjamin, Executive Director of
  the Port of Oakland and Linda Hothem, CEO of
  Pacam and manager of Oaklands Foreign Trade
  Zone.
• Co-Chairs Joshua Bar-Lev, Senior Vice President
  of Bright Source Energy Dan Kammen, Director of
  the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
  at UC Berkeley, and Joel Makower, Executive
  Editor of GreenBiz.com and co-founder of
  CleanEdge, a leading research and publishing firm
  helping companies, investors, and governments
  understand and profit from clean technologies
  and Jan Berman, Director, Pricing and Emerging
  Products, Pacific, Gas Electric Company.
• Co-Chairs Larry Batiste, the musical director
  for the Grammys and Board Member and Trustee of
  the National Association of Recording Arts and
  Sciences Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Executive
  Director of the Center for Art and Public Life at
  the California College of Arts Spencer Nilson,
  President and Creative Director of Expression
  College for Digital Arts and Sean House,
  President of the Bay Area Film Alliance.
• Co-Chairs Dr. Bertram Lubin, the Director of
  Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute
  (CHORI) and Dr. Vipul Mankad, Chief Medical
  Officer of Childrens Hospital.

International Trade Logistics
Green Industry
Arts, Design Digital Media
Biotechnology
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Where are we in the process now?
Life Sciences Healthcare Cluster
Transport. Logistics Cluster
Green Technology Cluster
Arts, Design Digital Media
Vision A Thriving, Innovative, Equitable,
Globally Competitive Regional Economy
Industry Cluster Working Groups
Joint Action Strategies and Implementation Plan
Economic Analysis
Enablers
Business Climate
Land Use Policy
Public Safety
Workforce Development
We are here
Timeline

May 2008 Summit Finalize Strategy
February
May 2007 Summit Launch
December
January April Pulling the strategy together
and beginning to implement
June
Phase 1 Phase2
Phase 3
On-going Implementation tracking.
McKinsey conducts economic analysis Task Forces
Meet
Broad-based Industry Cluster Working Groups are
convened to develop Strategic Action Plans
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Clusters Enablers
Enablers Land Use Infrastructure Workforce
Development Business Climate Improvements
Small Business Support Public Safety
Clusters Healthcare Biotechnology Intl Trade
Logistics Green Technology Arts, Design, Digital
Media
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Achieving the Vision

• Retain and create jobs in healthcare, logistics,
  retail, and other sectors
• Grow new businesses in industries like life
  sciences green technology arts, design, and
  digital mediaretail educational services, and
  specialty food .
• Increase the participation of all of Oaklands
  workforce in the economy by creating state-of-the
  art educational and workforce training programs
  in collaboration with industry.
• Create an enduring, strategic, public-private
  collaborative approach to economic development
  which enhances civic participation and
  demonstrates that Oakland is a unified community
  working collaboratively to achieve a shared
  vision.

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Next steps

• Presentation to the City Council on February 26th
• Present Strategy at May 2nd Economic Summit
• Implement Initiatives on an on-going basis
• Develop monitoring and tracking mechanisms for
  ensuring implementation and success