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File Number: 22-589 jobs in San Leandro, and to gain access to a larger number of candidates for City businesses. 2. Destination San Leandro The Chamber will promote San Leandro’s arts, culture, recreation, shopping, and food aimed at inviting the community and visitors to enjoy the city. ·Promotion of San Leandro Restaurants - The Chamber will develop a “restaurant week” to celebrate the flavors of San Leandro’s unique and diverse restaurants, utilizing scavenger hunt technology, QR codes, social media check-ins, and more. 3.Business Retention The Chamber will coordinate and convene forums, presentations, and meet-up events to educate, inform, and connect businesses to collaborate around common interests to maintain and further develop the business ecosystem. ·National Small Business Week 2023 - The Chamber will provide the platform and planning for business seminars on several different topics, format and topics to be determined. ·San Leandro by Design - Summer 2023 - San Leandro By Design is a signature program focused on bringing San Leandro toward its fullest potential. Programs are designed around relevant topics, bringing diverse interests and stakeholders together in the form of lectures, presentations, and walking tours of plans for development, updates from economic development organizations, and inspirational storytelling of successful cities. Topics to be determined. ·National Manufacturing Week - October 2023 - This event is a celebration of San Leandro’s large and impressive manufacturing business sector. The Chamber will provide the platform, marketing, and promotion for tours of local companies on National Manufacturing Day and host a Manufacturers’ Appreciation Event at the close of the week. The Chamber will feature manufacturing businesses on its website, in its newsletter, and on social media channels for the month of October. The proposed amount of the current contract is higher than previous years (from $50,000 to $62,500) in order to reflect the addition of a new event to the scope - a restaurant week - and to reflect the real impact of inflation on the cost of doing business and acquiring staffing, supplies and consultants. Available funds are from the City Manager's Community Investment Fund, which is the annual source for the contract, with additional funds from the budgeted and City Council approved FY22-23 Economic Development Division budget. Previous Actions The previous Agreement with the Chamber of Commerce was approved by City Council on March 7, 2021 (Resolution 2022-039), with a term covering Fiscal Year 2021-2022. Legal Analysis This Agreement was reviewed by the City Attorney and approved as to form. The consultant has Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 11/30/2022