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TEDC 2020
WINTER
CONFERENCE
February 19-21, 2020
Hilton Hotel & Conference Center
College Station, Texas
TEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
BURDETTE (PETE) FULLERTON, PH.D., CEcD
Assistant Director - Kansas City Aviation Department
Pete has held his position as Assistant Director for Commercial Properties & Devel-
opment with the Kansas City Aviation Department since 2015. Fullerton has been a
Community Economic Development professional over 30 years. He previously served
as President/CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City and
Executive Director of the Platte County Economic Development Council in Kansas City,
Missouri. In his career, Pete has participated in the completion of projects that have
directly invested over $3.5 billion which currently employ over 17,000 in Kansas City.
In 2017, Pete earned his Doctorate at the University of Southern Mississippi in
Human Capital Development with the publication of his dissertation, The Effects of
Tax Increment Financing on Assessed Land Values. Pete attended Texas A&M Uni-
versity and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Master of
Public Administration from the University of Missouri. Pete holds certifications as an
Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP), Certified Economic Developer
(CEcD), Professional Community Economic Developer (PCED) and Certified Return
on Investment Professional (CRP). Pete is Past Chairman of the Missouri Economic
Development Council. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate
School of Public Affairs at Park University.
DAVID IVAN, PH.D.
Community, Food & Environment Institute, Michigan State University Extension
Dr. David Ivan is nationally recognized for his research on successful community
change. A frequent invited speaker on community success at state/provincial, multi-
state and national community and rural development conferences in the United
States and Canada, Ivan has conducted previous research on community vitality,
including a 2011 study entitled “Community Success in the New Economy” and a 2012
study examining community change. His research has been recognized by the Com-
munity Development Society as its national research award winner. Ivan received a
B.S. degree from Michigan State, an MBA from Penn State, and his PhD from Michi-
gan State with a focus on community sustainability and vitality.
JAMES OLSON
Professor of Practice, Bush School, Texas A&M University
Professor Olson received his law degree from the University of Iowa and is a mem-
ber of Iowa Bar. While serving in the U.S. Navy, he attained the rank of Lieutenant
Commander. Professor Olson was a career officer in the Directorate of Operations of
the Central Intelligence Agency, serving mostly overseas in clandestine operations
in the U.S.S.R., Austria and Mexico. He served as Chief of Counterintelligence at CIA
Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
In 1997 Professor Olson was assigned by the CIA to the George Bush School of
Government and Public Service in College Station, Texas, as an officer-in-residence.
As a Professor of Practice at the Bush School at Texas A&M University, he teaches
courses on intelligence, counterintelligence, and national security.
Professor Olson is a recipient of the Intelligence Medal of Merit, the Distinguished
Career Intelligence Medal, the Counterintelligence Excellence Medal, the Donovan
Award, and several distinguished achievement awards. He is the author of “The Ten
Commandments of Counterintelligence,” “Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying,”
and “To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence.”
KELLY TEMPLIN
Director, Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus
Mr. Templin brings over twenty-eight years of public management experience to the
job. He previously served as the City Manager of the City of College Station, Texas
and Seabrook, Texas. Kelly has also worked for the cities of Auburn, Alabama and
Oxford, Ohio. He Kelly hold degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Texas
A&M University.
Mr. Templin specializes in capital project planning and delivery and economic devel-
opment. He is involved in recruiting industry and government partners to enhance
the System’s research base. Originally founded as an Army Air Base during World
War II, RELLIS consists of almost two thousand acres and is home to academic pro-
grams, training grounds and testing and evaluation facilities. role he is involved in
recruiting industry and government partners to enhance the System’s research base.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
9:00 - 11:00 AM FUTURE LEADERS TRAINING SEMINAR: INDIVIDUAL LEADERSHIP |
Brazos Amphitheatre | Presenter: Anthony Michelic, President, The PACE Group
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM TEDC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING | [Executive committee members only]
12:15 - 1:15 PM PEER GROUP ROUNDTABLE: BUSINESS RETENTION & EXPANSION - BEST
PRACTICES AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES | Mockingbird
Moderator: Tom Long, Chief Development Officer, San Antonio Economic Development
Foundation | Panelists: Christine Bryant, Director of Business Retention & Expansion,
Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation; Stacey Jones, Executive
Vice President, Sherman Economic Development Corporation; Kelly Kinsey Overby,
Business Retention & Expansion Director, Longview Economic Development Corporation;
Kenny McKay, Director of Business Retention, Lubbock Economic Development Alliance
Committee Meetings are open to all attendees, unless otherwise noted.
1:30 - 2:15 PM • CEDA COMMITTEE
Craig Rhodes, Committee Chair | Bluebonnet 5 | [CEDA committee members only]
• WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Art Mann, Committee Chair| Bluebonnet 6
2:15 - 3:00 PM • COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Kim Buttram, Chair; Audrey Schroyer, Vice-Chair | Bluebonnet 5
• EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Scott Livingston, Chair; Kelly Violette, Vice-Chair| Bluebonnet 6
• MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Ray Dunlap, Committee Chair | Bluebonnet 7
3:00 - 3:45 PM • FORWARD PLANNING COMMITTEE
Greg Sims, Committee Chair | Bluebonnet 5
• CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Wesley Burnett, Committee Chair | Bluebonnet 6
• PAC COMMITTEE
Kevin Carter, Committee Chair; William Myers, Vice-Chair | Bluebonnet 7
3:45 - 4:15 PM NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsored by: City of Leander and Texas State Technical College
4:15 - 5:15 PM LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM LEADERSHIP LEADERS | Bluebonnet 1-3
Moderator: Charlie Dromgoole, Interim Vice President, Denton Economic Devel-
opment Partnership | Panelists: David Keller, Ph.D, Director, Hollingsworth Center
for Ethical Leadership, Office of the Commandant, Texas A&M University; Summer
Odom, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education,
& Communications, Texas A&M University; Craig Rotter, Ph.D, Executive Director,
Texas Rural Leadership Program, Texas Agrilife Extension Service; Ben Welch, Ph.D,
Executive Director of the Halliburton Programs for the Center for Executive Devel-
opment and Clinical Professor Emeritus, Department of Management, Mays School
of Business, Texas A&M University
5:30 - 6:30 PM WELCOME RECEPTION AND NETWORKING | Bluebonnet 4
7:00 PM DINNER ON YOUR OWN
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
7:30 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST | Bluebonnet 1-3
RECOGNITION OF 2019 ECONOMIC EXCELLENCE RECOGNITION PROGRAM
RECIPIENTS | Sponsored by: Brazos Valley Economic Development Corporation
8:30 - 8:45 AM WELCOME TO COLLEGE STATION AND THE BRAZOS VALLEY | Bluebonnet 1-3
Karl Mooney, Mayor of College Station, Texas
8:45 - 9:45 AM TO CATCH A SPY | Bluebonnet 1-3
James Olson, Professor, Texas A&M University
James Olson, former Chief of CIA Counterintelligence, will take the audience into the world of
espionage as he lived it during his 31-year under cover career. The theme of his presentation
will be “Traitors I Have Known,” a discussion of his personal experiences with American spies
who betrayed our country for money, ego, or sex. He will also provide an overview of his new
book, “To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence.”
9:45 - 10:00 AM BREAK | Prefunction
10:00 - 11:00 AM IS IT/WAS IT A GOOD DEAL? MAKING THE CASE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
INCENTIVE EVALUATION | Bluebonnet 1-3
Burdette (Pete) Fullerton, Ph.D, CEcD, Assistant Director, Kansas City Aviation Dept.
When you, as the Economic Developer, recommend incentives for a project, how sure are you
that it is the right deal? How and when do you effectively evaluate afterwards if the deal had
the impact that was projected? This session will give economic development professionals
the tools to develop quantitative and analytic measures to guide decision making before and
after the deal, to enhance your community’s impact of incentivized development.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM RAIL OPPORTUNITIES - TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES AND TEXAS | Bluebonnet 1-3
Moderator: Tim Feemster, CEO & Managing Principal, Foremost Quality Logistics
Panelists: Chris Carucci, Industrial Development Manager, Kansas City Southern
Railway; Christopher Danos, General Director, Strategic Programs-Economic Devel-
opment, BNSF Railway
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY (TEA) - CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION (CTE)
PROGRAMS AND STUDY | Brazos Amphitheatre
Ryan Merritt, Director of Career and Technical Education-College, Career and
Military Preparation, Texas Education Agency
Learn about the TEA’s new CTE Programs of Study that help align education and the work-
force in order to develop a strong talent pipeline. Participants will understand the opportunities
available for high school students to take sequences of courses that help prepare them for
in-demand, high-skill, and high-wage careers in Texas
12:00 - 1:15 PM LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:15 - 2:15 PM ANATOMY OF CYBER ATTACKS | Bluebonnet 1-3
Tom Ervin, Computer Scientist; Representative from UTSA Institute for Economic
Development
As more companies and government agencies are becoming cyber dependent, the outbreak
of malware attacks and their sophistication are growing exponentially. This presentation
will showcase live demonstrations of multiple malware threat vectors and provide sobering
examples of the ease at which attackers can compromise your data.
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
1:15 - 2:15 PM REVITALIZING YOUR COMMUNITY THROUGH BROWNFIELDS GRANT FUNDS
WITH THE RRC (RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS) AND TCEQ (TEXAS
COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY) | Brazos Amphitheatre
Peter Pope, Site Remediation-Oil & Gas Division, Railroad Commission of Texas;
Kristy Livingston, Team Lead-Super Fund, Remediation Division, TCEQ
Does your community have properties that have been vacant or dilapidated for years and are
the perfect location for a redevelopment project? Is your community afraid to take on those
properties for fear of contamination? This session will cover how Brownfields Grant Funds,
made available through the TCEQ and the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), can help your
community take on development projects at sites with real or perceived contamination.
2:15 - 3:15 PM BREAKOUT SESSION: CAN SMALL TOWNS BE COOL? | Bluebonnet 1-3
Dave Ivan, Ph.D, Director-Community, Food and Environment Institute, Michigan
State University
Based on the approaches of more than 300 high performing small to mid-sized towns across
North America, this session provides real strategies from real communities on enhancing
entrepreneurship, strengthening human talent, addressing youth migration, and enhancing
place to make small towns a cool place to live and visit.
2:15 - 3:15 PM CREATING BETTER ECONOMIC AND LIFE OPPORTUNITIES BY EXPANDING
ACCESS, ADOPTION AND USE OF BROADBAND | Brazos Amphitheatre
Jennifer Harris, State Program Director, Connected Nation
Ms. Harris will provide an overview of Connected Nation Texas and the importance of broad-
band in all communities. She will also highlight the updated broadband maps for Texas (to be
released by CN Texas in late January) and provide CN Texas program updates.
3:45 - 4:45 PM NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsored by: Rockdale Municipal Development District
3:45 - 4:45 PM PEER GROUP ROUNDTABLE: REGIONALISM - HOW TO PARTNERS WITH YOUR
NEIGHBORS TO HARNESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES | Mockingbird
Moderator: Ken Becker, Executive Director, Sweetwater Economic Development |
Panelists: Kasey Coker, Executive Director, High Ground of Texas; Raudel Garza, Har-
lingen Economic Development Corporation; Susan Gill, President, Lindale Economic
Development Corporation; Karen Gregory, Regional Manager, CenterPoint Energy
4:45 - 5:15 PM TEAM TEXAS | Brazos Amphitheatre
Ray Dunlap, 2020 Chair, Team Texas Council; Samantha Brown, Director, Team Texas
5:30 PM BOARD BUSES AND DEPART FOR OFFSITE RECEPTION/TOUR
6:00 - 8:00 PM NETWORKING RECEPTION AT GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
AND MUSEUM | [Optional tour of library and museum]
8:00 PM BOARD BUSES FOR RETURN TO HILTON HOTEL
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Friday, February 21, 2020
7:30 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST | Sponsored by: Greenville Economic Development Corporation and
Temple Economic Development Corporation
8:00 - 8:15 AM LEGISLATIVE AND ED SALES TAX COMMITTEE MEETING | Bluebonnet 1-3
Greg Sims, Legislative Committee Chair; Danielle Scheiner, ED Sales Tax Committee Chair;
Sabrina Brown, TEDC Legislative Consultant
8:15 - 9:00 AM THE WAYFAIR RULINGS, RELATED LEGISLATIVE CHANGES AND CLARIFICATIONS
IN PROPOSED LOCAL SALES TAX RULE | Bluebonnet 1-3
Robert Wood, Associate Deputy Comptroller-Operations & Support; Karey Barton,
Associate Deputy Comptroller for Tax, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
The presentation will include a discussion of the impact on local sales taxes of the Supreme
Court Wayfair decision and also related legislation adopted last session providing for an
optional single local sales tax rate for remote sellers and requirements that marketplace plat-
form providers collect state and local sales taxes. The presentation will also include a discus-
sion of the status of the local sales tax rule and the changes and clarifications in the rule.
9:00 - 10:00 AM HOPE INSPIRES ACTION: LEADING POSITIVE COMMUNITY CHANGE | Bluebonnet 1-3
Dave Ivan, Ph.D, Director-Community, Food and Environment Institute, Michigan
State University
Providing “hope” to a community is perhaps the greatest contribution elected officials can
provide to their citizens. The presentation includes moving stories of community leaders that
are creating hope in their communities my matching their citizen’s dreams with an inspiring
community vision and can-do attitude.
10:00 - 11:00 AM INTRODUCING RELLIS - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM CAMPUS AND
CENTER FOR INNOVATION | Bluebonnet 1-3
Kelly Templin, Director, Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus
Originally founded as an Army Air Base during World War II, RELLIS consists of almost two
thousand acres and is home to academic programs, training grounds and testing and evalua-
tion facilities.
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM TEDC BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING | Mockingbird | [Open to all attendees]
This event is recognized by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) as a professional devel-
opment training that counts toward the recertification of Certified Economic Developers (CEcD).
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2020 WINTER CONFERENCE SPONSORS
BREAKFAST SPONSOR
BREAK SPONSORS
COMMUNITY SPONSORS
Brazos Valley Council of Governments
City of Brenham
Conroe Economic Development Council
Flyer View
Lindale Economic Development Corporation
Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation
Pflugerville Community Development Corporation
Round Rock Chamber
Texas A&M Engineering & Extension
Service (TEEX)
Follow the Event on Twitter @TexasEDC #TEDC2020
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