2023 Meeting Notes
The LPBA meets the second Tuesday of every month.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
8AM | Lake Placid Baptist Church – Thanks to Jim for hosting!
Elections Results
Marc Galvin: President
Heather LePere: Treasurer
Joell Stetson: Secretary
Directors: Marc Galvin, Lori Fitzgerald, Jim Koenig, Don Poulsen
ROOST UPDATES ~ Catherine Ericson
• New Web Developer starting this week: Brenna Williamson
•The Lake Placid Kiosk is installed and ready to go! It’s next to the restrooms in the municipal lot
•The updated Adirondack, USA Travel Map will be heading to the printer early next week
•Brand and website work is underway. Committee working together with ROOST team on “mood board” and rebranding of Lake Placid logo and website
•LEAF Fund: the Town of North Elba is awarding more than $370,000 to several local organizations through its North Elba Local Enhancement and Advancement Fund.
-Adirondack Carousel $5,000
-Adirondack Mountain Club $14,4000
-Adirondack Rail Trail Association $12,375
-Adirondack Speedskating Club $10,000
-Lake Placid Central School District $30,000
-Open Space Institute Land Trust, Inc (OSI) $50,000
-Saranac Lake Civic Center, Inc $35,000
-Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad $28,458
-Saranac Lake Winter Carnival $2,020
-Search and Rescue of the Northern Adirondacks $3,560
-Shipman Youth Center $6,000
-Village of Saranac Lake – Mt. Pisgah Recreation Center $175,000
VILLAGE UPDATES ~ Marc Galvin
Working on green initiatives
-Clarkson Students working on getting credits to renew LEED certification. Currently have enough credits for silver, should be close to platinum after they finish. Will help get funding.
-EV infrastructure in town (Hannaford, the big municipal lot). Have a presentation on it today
-Smart metering – company has a piece that attaches to electric meters and can give more information, like peak times
HOLIDAY VILLAGE STROLL RECAP ~
People seemed to be enjoy the weekend. Santa had a great turnout on Saturday, as did the Jingle Bell Run. Movie had almost 250 people. Ornaments and beanies were a big hit. Let us know if you have any feedback from the weekend!
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
8AM | The Bookstore Plus – Thanks to Marc for hosting!
Elections will be next month!
We have 3 board positions and 4 officer positions available.
Board members serve 2-year terms, and officers 1 year. Officer positions include President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
If you’re interested in any of the positions, please email lpbaofficers@gmail.com
ROOST UPDATES ~ Catherine Ericson
Lake Placid Solar Eclipse: information is being updated as events/viewing locations/packages etc. are updated: https://www.lakeplacid.com/eclipse-2024?a=10/10/2023&c=eclipse
Toolkit: complete with presentation, meeting information, glasses, etc. EVEN a Spotify playlist! https://www.roostadk.com/eclipse2024
The total duration of the April 8, 2024 eclipse will be 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 41 seconds.
Maximum totality will last for 3 minutes and 21 seconds.
-Partial totality begins at 2:13:02 pm
-Full totality begins at 3:25:07 pm
-Maximum totality at 3:26:48pm
-Full totality ends at 4:36:43 pm
-Partial totality ends at 4:36:43 pm
ROOST hosted a successful Total Eclipse Task Force meeting with over 30 participants on the call. We are excited to continue to work with towns throughout the Adirondacks on advancing their plans.
Lake Placid Holiday Village Stroll:
-December 8-10, 2023
-Working on Sponsorship and finalizing details
-Please reach out to catherine@roostadk.com or joell@godlen-arrow.com with any questions, events, promos, etc.
–Holiday Stroll Insert Advertising Opportunity
Halloween Tuesday, October 31st
-Parade down Main Street begins at noon. Line up begins at 11:50 am on Saranac Ave
-Trick or Treating on Main Street: 2:30 pm. Print a sign: with time | without time
-Party at The Lake Placid Conference Center
•Grade K-5: 4-6pm
•Grades 6-8: 6-8pm
•Grades 9-12: 6-10pm
Lake Placid Film Festival: October 26-29th. Line up coming soon! https://www.lakeplacid.com/events/lake-placid-film-festival
ROOST Awards: ROOST has received two awards from New York State Tourism Industry Association (NYSTIA) in a ceremony that took place during the organization’s 2023 annual meeting in Rochester earlier this month.
The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism received the NYSTIA “Excellence in Tourism Marketing Campaigns, Projects and Programs: Creative Use of Data to Drive Success” award along with the “Excellence in Tourism Stewardship: Shaping a Better Future” award. NYSTIA’s “Excellence in Tourism Marketing Campaigns, Projects and Programs: Creative Use of Data to Drive Success” award recognizes ROOST for its “Seasonal Abandon Site Emails” campaign.
ROOST Team:
-Lake Placid Visitor’s Service Center was booming this past week! Over 420 people on Saturday alone!
-Fall is officially at PEAK! ROOST and I Love NY have been busy promoting the leaf-peeping season on a joint yearly effort
-Hannah (ROOST Group Sales) was just in Florida at a TEAMS conference with ORDA and the Adirondack Sports Council promoting the region for future events.
-Aurora (Content Team for ROOST) was in Washington, DC for the Content Marketing World conference and came back with a lot of ideas and inspiration!
VILLAGE UPDATES ~ Marc Galvin
2 Water bottle filling stations installed near the public bathrooms – 2 more left to install. The location allows them to be used all year
Looking for a short-term solution to fix the sidewalk near the beach house that is crumbling
Police – welcomed Catherine Valentine to the force last week. She used to be a parking attendant. The current parking attendant is doing great. Also looking to hire another full-time and part-time attendant.
Loss Prevention – some businesses seeing an issue with organized theft lately
OTHER
Trying to get ORDA back at our meetings
Cambria: Opening next Wednesday!
-Restaurant will be open 7 days a week.
-Breakfast 7-11am
-Dinner: Sunday – Thursday 4pm-9pm and Friday and Saturday 4pm-10pm
-Specials Sunday – Wednesday Night (Tailgating, Burgers & Brews, Mexican, Alpine)
-Happy Hour 4-7pm
Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 | 5:30-8pm at Cambria
ROOST UPDATES~ Catherine Ericson
IRONMAN
Local contact for Ironman: Ironman Lake Placid has established a community relations coordinator and hotline to assist with training and race-related issues. The community relations coordinator is able to assist with quickly mitigating challenges for community members and businesses as they arise. Businesses and community members should use this if someone has a question about getting to work, is in need of an escort because they live on the race course, an issue presents itself, etc.
CONTACT INFO
phone: 813-738-9270
Email: imlakeplacidcommunity@ironman.com
Check out the Lake Placid Insider for traffic impacts and information
Ironman Dine Around is in effect again this year. Participation list has been updated
Adirondack Eurofest
will take place on October 6-8 in Lake Placid. The organizers would like local artists and vendors to participate. Email them directly from the website contact: adkeurofest.com
July 4th
Recap meeting coming up. Please email your thoughts for next year to Catherine@roostadk.com
Solar Eclipse
Share your plans: roostadk.com/eclipse2024
Coasters are available to dining locations, most have been delivered
September Power Outage
National Grid has confirmed a power outage for the 12946 zip code on September 6, 2023 starting at 10pm, ending September 7, 2023 at 6am
VILLAGE UPDATES~ Marc Galvin
Paving behind because of weather. Will be behind more now with flooding issues
Electric power work was going to pause for July & August but they saw how much work needed to be done so will continue on good days
The water plant is online now. Price came in more than originally thought, but grant funded. New sewer plant next.
garbage situation is improving. Also doing a great job keeping the public bathrooms clean.
The village has a scrubber they’ve been using to clean the sidewalks (gets ice cream and such off)
OTHER~
Light Pollution concerns. Lake Placid is a big bright spot in the Adirondack Park. Working on ways to reduce light pollution. A lot of places leave lights on 24 hours a day. Consider turning off when the store is closed, or using timers.
Cambria Hotel taking reservations for November 15. Website should be up early fall.
Next meeting: Evening Social on August 8
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Thanks to Generations Tap & Grill for hosting our evening social!
Village Updates: Marc Galvin
• Have been getting lots of comments about dirty sidewalks – will be scrubbing
• More signs for Main Street coming (on back order): no smoking, parking, etc.
• Currently no parking enforcement person on Main Street, but police are writing tickets
ROOST updates: Catherine Ericson
• Updates
• Business Resources/Data & Analytics
• Hiking Checklist
• Sporting & Cultural Events
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
8AM | Lake Placid Baptist Church Thank you Jim for hosting!
ROOST UPDATES ~ Catherine Ericson
•Eileen Mowrey-Floss Introduction. Lake Placid and Whiteface Region Manager. Catherine will remain in the role of Community Liaison
•Solar Eclipse Community Call Wednesday (5/10) at 5:30pm. Must pre-register. “Total Eclipse of the Park”
•Major Event Economic impact study presentation will be on May 23, Email to come
•Adirondack Day in Albany was Monday, May 8. ROOSt coordinated to highlight all the Adirondacks has to offer to the elected officials
•Thank you to the LPCA for a great ROOST social last week. Please consider attending in the future for presentation, scope of work, and mingling
•Conferences:
May 2-4 was Child Passenger Safety with 400 attendees
May 17-18 Adirondack Research Consortium. 125 attendees
May 21-24 New York Rural Waters. 600 attendees
June 18-23 SUNY Technology Conference. 550 attendees. Will be looking for dinner options
•Reminder: Community Day is June 4th 1-4pm
•Starting to plan for 4th of July. Looking for additional committee member
•Lodging Property meeting with ORDA about upcoming events – email went out
•Second Google Audit webinar will be May 27th. 9am and 3pm option
VILLAGE UPDATES ~ Marc Galvin
•Dock Doctors will be putting the new docks in the week before Memorial Day. Pre-built so should be a quick process. Will not stay in during in the winter, so need to find a storage area
•Hoping line striping will start this week
•No Smoking signs are up on Main Street. Will be a loose enforcement right now
STUDENTS WORKING THIS SUMMER
Keith Clark gave students a questionnaire on what kind of work they wanted to do this summer. A misconception that they don’t want to work, but many do. Will share with businesses when done
FUTURE MEETINGS
Plan is to keep alternating morning and evening meetings. No more Zoom for morning meetings
OTHER
•Cauldron at the horseshow grounds needs repairs. Have $20k for repairs to the base. Needs much more repairs, but the extent is still unknown. Group has made a formal plan to make a park around it.
•FISU cauldron was vandalized (blue stuff broke off). Will be fixed and put up somewhere.
•Adirondack Rail Trail Association has an opening for a Lake Placid Business Member. If interested reach out to Matt@highpeakscyclery.com
•Streetart crosswalk project will start this month. Will be painting two crosswalks on Hillcrest.
Next Meeting: June 13th. Evening Social 5:30pm-8pm at Generations
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
5:30pm | Whiteface Lodge (Peak 47)
Announcements: looking at FREE parking on Main Street for Locals during the mornings. More info to come
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
8AM | Lake Placid Baptist Church
Thanks to Jim for hosting
Thank you again to Ishmael at the Peaks Paintbar for hosting last month’s meeting!
ROOST UPDATES ~ Catherine Ericson
In the process of switching ads to promote spring skiing and midweek packages. Also want to push golf. If you have any promos, email Catherine@Roostadk.com
Deadline for ads for the Lake Placid Guide 2023/24 have been extended. Get your ads to Glenn@roostadk.com ASAP to be included
Will be hosting 4 workshops to go over Google Optimization results with businesses: how’s presence, make sure everything is up to date, are you missing info/photos/etc. Meetings will be 4/26 & 5/17 at 9am and 3pm. More info to come from ROOST
Attended American Bus Tours and New York State Travel & Adventure Shows. Will be attending the Ottawa Travel Show, Adirondack Sports & Fitness, and Adirondack Day in Albany
Community Day Committee is now taking Volunteer of The Year nominations. Please send to Catherine@Roostadk.com
VILLAGE UPDATES ~ Marc Galvin
Waster water output is not up to standards – received $6.4 million grant for updates. Total updates around $10.5 – 11 million. Work to start this spring
Will be doing an audit of the current signage. (permanent signage not up yet) Seeing what is up, is it confusing, etc. Striping will be done this spring
WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES DEBRIEF + FEEDBACK: taking what we learned to improve future events
Clarification: Main Street closure needed to happen for security
Event was scaled back some due to people/delegations who didn’t show up
Managing expectations
IDA GRANT DISCUSSION: recommendations on how the program could be more impactful and beneficial to more businesses If the structure was improved (Had to attend a four hour class on a Saturday to apply for grant)
Feedback: More notice/communication
More options; Saturday for four hours doesn’t work for a lot of businesses
Will probably be another round of grants if all the money is not given out
OTHER
Whiteface Club is having a fundraiser for Lisa G’s TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023 AT 5 PM – 8 PM
They will have several raffles to win some amazing prizes, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, live music with local artist, Scott Sileo, and a cash bar. All raffle ticket proceeds will be donated to the staff at Lisa G’s. If you would like to donate a raffle item please contact Cassie Hogue at cassie.hogue@whitefaceclubresort.com.
Next Meeting: Evening Social
We will be pushing it one week due to school break.
Date: April 18, 2023
Location: Whiteface Lodge
Time: 5:30pm – 8pm