REP. CADDY MCKEOWN, CHAIR REP. DEBORAH BOONE SEN. BETSY JOHNSON SEN. ARNIE ROBLAN SEN. JEFF KRUSE, VICE CHAIR REP. DAVID GOMBERG REP. WAYNE KRIEGER SEN. DOUG WHITSETT TH ANNUAL AUGUST 8-9, 2016 AT THE MILL CASINO HOTEL Oregon Coast Economic Summit THE VOICES OF COASTAL AND RURAL OREGONIANS: BUILDING ON COLLABORATIVE 5 PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY REP. CADDY MCKEOWN, CHAIR REP. DEBORAH BOONE SEN. BETSY JOHNSON SEN. ARNIE ROBLAN SEN. JEFF KRUSE, VICE CHAIR REP. DAVID GOMBERG REP. WAYNE KRIEGER SEN. DOUG WHITSETT Welcome to the 5th Annual Oregon Coast Economic Summit (OCES)! As an active participant in Oregon’s Rural-Coast Economic Development, the Oregon Coastal Caucus is pleased to extend a personal “thank you” to all our speakers, sponsors, attendees and Taste of the Oregon Coast presenters for taking the time from their busy schedules to visit us on the Oregon Coast. We greatly appreciate your support in helping us develop a collaborative pathway to address issues common to rural-coastal communities. Special thanks to this year’s primary partners: the Coquille Indian Tribe and The Mill Casino, Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Business Oregon, Oregon Department of Transportation and Association of Oregon Counties. We hope that you will find this to be a memorable two-day event packed with informative panels to address our coastal and rural economic development needs. This year’s theme, The Voices of Coastal and Rural Oregonians: Building on Collaborative Pathways to Economic Development and Prosperity, is aimed at continuing and enhancing previously established collaborations – across sectors and disciplines – in support of regional economic development solutions, particularly as we prepare for the 2017 Legislative Session. OCES again will feature informative panel discussions on a wide range of topics that recognize the unique economic diversity of our coastal and rural communities. In addition to our focus on economic diversification, infrastructure needs, management of natural resource industries, healthcare, housing and Oregon land use goals, we will feature a unique collaboration with representatives from the Oregon Business Plan Summit for a broader engagement in the promotion of regional economic development. Therefore, our community’s successful economic development is dependent in good part on your attendance, involvement and participation at this year’s Summit. You have a vital role to play in sustaining and contributing to the very constructive discussions, dialogues and developments that have become a hallmark of the OCES. We are grateful for your attendance, support and continued interest in helping us to address the challenges and chart the future of a more economically diverse and robust Oregon Coast. 2 3 REP. CADDY MCKEOWN, CHAIR REP. DEBORAH BOONE SEN. BETSY JOHNSON SEN. ARNIE ROBLAN SEN. JEFF KRUSE, VICE CHAIR REP. DAVID GOMBERG REP. WAYNE KRIEGER SEN. DOUG WHITSETT Main Event Sponsors Partner Sponsors 4 5 REP. CADDY MCKEOWN, CHAIR REP. DEBORAH BOONE SEN. BETSY JOHNSON SEN. ARNIE ROBLAN SEN. JEFF KRUSE, VICE CHAIR REP. DAVID GOMBERG REP. WAYNE KRIEGER SEN. DOUG WHITSETT Gold Sponsors Bronze Sponsors 6 7 REP. CADDY MCKEOWN, CHAIR REP. DEBORAH BOONE SEN. BETSY JOHNSON SEN. ARNIE ROBLAN SEN. JEFF KRUSE, VICE CHAIR REP. DAVID GOMBERG REP. WAYNE KRIEGER SEN. DOUG WHITSETT United States Senator, Ron Wyden United States Congresswoman, Suzanne Bonamici, Oregonians in every part of the state know Ron as a senator who always listens. Oregon’s First Congressional District Since his election to the Senate in 1996 he has thrown open the doors of Suzanne first moved to Oregon from Michigan in the mid-1970s. She attended government for Oregonians by holding open-to-all town hall meetings in every Lane Community College prior to earning a Bachelor of Science from the School one of Oregon’s 36 counties each year. Thus far, he has held more than 780 of Journalism at the University of Oregon and a J.D. from the University of meetings throughout the state. Oregon School of Law. After law school, Suzanne was an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., where she was in the Credit Practices Although Senator Wyden’s home is in Portland; he takes pride in saying that he is Division of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. She met her husband, Michael H. “not the senator from the state of Portland, but the senator from the entire state Simon, in Washington and in 1986 they settled in Portland. of Oregon.” And all of us up and down the Coast know that’s the case, as he has fought along with us to keep our Coast Guard station in Newport, to help our In 2007, Suzanne was elected to her first term in the Oregon House of coastal fisheries and to grow our recreation and tourism sectors. Representatives, representing House District 34 in Washington County. A year later, Suzanne was appointed to the Oregon Senate to represent District Senator Wyden came to Oregon more than four decades ago – after earning his 17. Suzanne was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election bachelor’s degree from Stanford – to attend the University of Oregon School of on January 31, 2012. She represents the First Congressional District of Oregon, Law. He earned his law degree from the U of O in 1974 and went on to teach which comprises the Northwest portion of the state. gerontology and co-found the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers, an advocacy group for the elderly. He also served as the director of Oregon Legal Services Congresswoman Bonamici serves on the U.S. House Education and the for the Elderly from 1977 to 1979 and was a member of the Oregon State Board Workforce Committee and is a member of the Subcommittee on Early of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators before his election to represent Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education. In her role on the committee, Oregon’s Third Congressional District in 1980. Congresswoman Bonamici has proposed legislation to improve the use of assessments in schools, expand opportunities for low-income college students In the Senate, he is the ranking member of the Finance Committee and serves on and align career and technical education programs with workforce needs in the the Budget and Energy and Natural Resources Committees as well as the Senate community. Last year Congresswoman Bonamici visited at least one school in Select Committee on Intelligence. every school district in the First Congressional District. Her conversations with students, teachers, and administrators continue to inform her work to make sure every student receives a well-rounded education. As part of that effort, Congresswoman Bonamici founded the bipartisan Congressional STEAM Caucus, which promotes integrating arts and design into STEM learning. STEAM education not only fosters creative thinking and innovation; it helps engage students who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields. Congresswoman Bonamici also serves on Science, Space and Technology Committee, where she is a champion for environmental research, ocean health and tsunami preparedness. 8 9 REP. CADDY MCKEOWN, CHAIR REP. DEBORAH BOONE SEN. BETSY JOHNSON SEN. ARNIE ROBLAN SEN. JEFF KRUSE, VICE CHAIR REP. DAVID GOMBERG REP. WAYNE KRIEGER SEN. DOUG WHITSETT Wood v. Ryan Alex Kozinski, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals In July 2014, Joseph Rudolph Wood, who had been sentenced to death, for the Ninth Circuit Alex Kozinski is Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth filed a motion before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals claiming a right to Circuit, where he has served since 1985. He was Chief Judge of that court know which chemicals were included in the lethal injection that was to be from November 2007 to December 1, 2014. In addition to his judicial duties, used to execute him. While the court denied his motion, Kozinski issued a Kozinski is an essayist and a judicial commentator. dissenting opinion, calling the use of drugs a “misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and peaceful.” Kozinski was born in Bucharest, Romania, in July 1950. In 1962, his parents, both Holocaust survivors, brought him to the United States. The family settled Oregon Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, where his father, Jeanne P. Atkins is Oregon’s 25th Secretary of State. A veteran state Moses, ran a small grocery store. administrator, Congressional staffer and women’s rights advocate, Jeanne Kozinski graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1972 and is a committed public servant who has spent her entire career in public in 1975 received a J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law. Kozinski clerked service and non-profit organizations. for future Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Ninth Circuit from Secretary Atkins retired in January 2015 from the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff 1975 to 1976, and then for Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger Merkley, D-Ore., where she served as State Director since 2009. Previously, from 1976 to 1977. she was Chief of Staff for the Oregon House Speakers Jeff Merkley and From June 5, 1981, to August 1982, Kozinski served as the first U.S. Special Dave Hunt. Jeanne’s service to Oregonians also includes serving for five Counsel appointed by President Ronald Reagan. In 1982, Kozinski was years as manager of the Women’s and Reproductive Health Section of the appointed chief judge at the newly formed United States Court of Federal Claims. Department of Human Services’ Office of Family Health. In 1985, at the age of 35, Kozinski was appointed to a new seat at the U. S. During her nonprofit work, Jeanne focused on policy analysis and public Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Reagan, making him the affairs at organizations including the United Way of the Columbia/ youngest federal appeals court judge at the time of appointment.