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Pleasanton to Pleasanton Portal Ellen Pensky McGraw reviewed her perspective that business -to -business is an important area to develop, and the proposed P2P Portal would give businesses a marketplace to find local businesses and highlight services offered, making it easier to choose local companies. Comments from the EVC included: • Shared and ongoing communication efforts would be needed to make the initiative successful. • Relative to the long-term management of the portal: who will be responsible to set policies, procedures, screen videos, maintain and clean up the website? Bumblebee Marketing will manage for the first year • The Chamber does not have the resources to own or manage the website in the long-term. • Student groups may want to participate. • Consider a fee for businesses to be included in the portal, which could fund a position for the continued maintenance of the portal. • Do any other communities have this? Smaller versions and pieces exist online, for example the Chamber of Commerce list, but there is not a city identified that has this type of a local business to business website. • Marketing channel needs to be determined. o Social media will be an important aspect for the website's success. • Parameters need to be set on what the P2P portal will/will not be. • A clear strategy for long-term maintenance and funding is necessary before moving forward. inPleasanton.com is an example of a comparable vision that needs continuous effort to remain current and utilized, as would this portal. Christina Nystrom Mantha proposed a subcommittee to consider the logistics of the P2P portal. A motion to create a subcommittee to further explore the P2P Portal concept was made by Ellen Pensky McGraw and seconded by Steve Van Dorn; the motion passed 16-0-0. Volunteers interested in serving on the subcommittee are Shareef Mandavi, Kristen Hayes Kuse, Steve Van Dorn, Ellen Pensky McGraw, Judy Wheeler and Sylvia Tian. The first meeting for the subcommittee is proposed to take place within the next month. Local Preference Policy Christina Nystrom Mantha noted the City does not include a local purchasing preference in its purchasing policy, although there are internal standards for the organization to choose local when all things are equal. Staff has made progress in institutionalizing local -purchasing standards; however, staff wants to be able to choose the most qualified vendor, and there are many factors in determining the best qualified vendor and rarely are all things equal. Kristen Hayes Kuse noted many businesses and government agencies have preference policies, for example preferences for woman or minority-owned businesses which could be used as a model. It was noted that Alameda County follows a version of this for locally owned businesses. Christina Nystrom Mantha recommended a vote to incorporate into the City's purchasing policy a local preference such that when all criteria are equal, the City will choose the local vendor. Judy Wheeler made a motion to build such language into the City's purchasing policy which