Newport to Ask Harbor-Area Businesses How It Can Help
City officials are having a meeting today to see what they can do to help businesses that operate in and around the harbor here.
The purpose is to gather information from operators of charter boats, boat yards, yacht and boat sales lots, businesses that serve other marine industries and bay-front property owners, Assistant City Manager Ken Delino said.
While Newport Beach has sponsored sessions in the past to discuss such topics as how retailers can create cooperative marketing strategies, today’s meeting will have a different goal.
“We’re going to go fishing with a hand grenade and see what floats to the top,” Delino said. “Right now we’re not sure what’s going on out there. We don’t have a good feel for what’s going on in our own harbor.”
The city’s economic development committee, which organized today’s session, works to promote four segments of the local economy: restaurants, hotels, the retail district and harbor businesses. Those enterprises are all interrelated, Delino said, but city officials don’t have a clear understanding of just what those ties are.
Speakers at the meeting will be Newport Beach Mayor Clarence J. Turner, revenue manager Glen Everroad, Orange Coast College President David Grant and economic development committee Chairman Rush Hill.
The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. in the City Council chambers at Newport Beach City Hall, 3300 Newport Blvd.
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