April 8 - Plankton Meeting,Sage College (April 15: annotated)

*** Community Impact Program ends April 26

PFH Assignments [annotated 4.15.10]

* commercial kitchen set-up cost
$ Estimate based on web research for USED commercial kitchen equipment: $17,000
Recommendation: work with Finger Lakes ReUse Center, Triphammer Mall

* get fr Kalay Mordock (who previously ran individualized family meal preparation business) estimate re green cuisine budget
Dinners for family weekdays varied with ingredients, average $5-10/person, based on preparation for single family
Recommendation: three selections MWF @ $5-12/person, Two for weekend specials @ $7-15/person
Process: menus online, order by 10 am for 5-6 pm pick-up; delivery for additional charge



* set up budget sheet as per Foundation application
Personnel (Center Mngr/Hostel Mngr, Chef, facilities mgr)
Indirect Costs (FICA, Unemployment insurance, medical) - est $40% wages/salaries
Staff Travel
Equipment - purchase, rental
Communications - phone, internet, FAX
Duplication - printing
Supplies - office, kitchen, printer cartridges, meetings/hospitality
Consultants
Other

* Barn renovation: can't have actual start-up $ estimate by 4/26
Team will leave that part of the 5-year business model empty

* Broader community arts context
Ithaca/Tompkins County:
- galleries are concentrated downtown; very few informal, flexible exhibition spaces (PFH can fill in details)
- facilities:
+ Community School of Music & Arts, downtown Ithaca, offers lessons, workshops, programs for dance, music, painting, writing; cost a barrier for moderate-low income families
+ new visual arts facility being developed in Fall Creek neighborhood
+ Greater Ithaca Activity Center (GIAC), Southside Community Center and County Youth Bureau have arts programs that serve downtown neighborhood moderate-low income children and youth
+ Brooktondale Community Center has occasional arts activities but no on-going programs; Brooktondale Mkt hosts informal exhibittions


* sketch of floor map for each floor of Barn

* Hostel Demand numbers from Tompkins County Visitor and Convention Center & Hostelling International: NEEDS MORE RESEARCH - visit Upstate hostels in summer '10
Consideration: membership in Hostelling International, Backpackers International or Independent?
October-May: estimate 25% occupancy
June-September: estimate $75-100 occupancy
Upstate New York State Hostelling context
- rates vary $22-35 depending on # beds in a room; age-related special rates
- h-speed internet, bike storge, TV lounge, occasional special events/theme weekends, family rates, washing machines on premises, cook-your-own kitchens with refrigerator space, provide linens (or not)
SOURCE: Hosteling International
- Buffalo: downtown location, on bus line, 48 beds (2 4-bed rms, 5 6-bed rms)
- Cape Vincent: Tibbetts Point Lighthouse Hostel, 26 beds (Lake Ontario/ St. lawrence River)
- Niagara Falls: downtown Niagara Falls, 38 beds
- Syracuse: Downing International Hostel (downtown), 35 beds
SOURCE: http://www.iloveny.com/Where-To-Stay/
- Lake Placid: JackRabbit Hostel (not HI)
- New Paltz Hostel, 4 rooms with 4 bunkbeds ( independent for over 30 years)

* prospective funding sources
Tompkins County Strategic Tourism Board: Capital Grants program - Hostel component
New York State Research and Development (NYSERDA) - 'green' renovation
Private Investor/s (Hostel)
USDA - Green Cuisine rural small business development (loan, grant)
John Ben Snow Foundation, Emerson Foundation - community arts center component
NYS Department of Agriculture - rural community facilities: library component
NYS Department of Economic Development - Hostel: job creation


PLANKTON IDEAS FOR MARK MILSTEIN/TOM WARD
* developing business plans for specific eco-tourism-related enterprise initiatives
* market research: viability of ithaca as tourist destination - focus on eco-tourism
* Case Statement: how an ecologically-oriented project can benefit the whole community, understand the local community, their needs
* Level Green or other catering: green cuisine
* sustainbility angles: economic,social, environmental triangle - ex: cost/benefit differential between green construction and regular construction
* send bob rossi intro informationhs - re SEEN (Sustainable Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Network)
* ask Gary Ferguson re downtown projects
* Case Statements: marketing ithaca as arts destination, eco-destination
[triple bottom line: econoommic, social, environmenbt busfit: entrepreneurship and SG students can work together
SEND THEM DRAFT - THEY'LL CRITIQUE]


NEXT MTNG: thursday april 15th 2:25 pm