The Strategic Tourism Planning Board is an advisory board to the Tompkins County Legislature. Its mission is to provide oversight and strategic direction for tourism initiatives that promote economic development and enhance the quality of life in Tompkins County.
The STPB typically meets on the third Wednesday of each month from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. If you plan to attend, please confirm the date, time, and place of the next meeting by contacting the Tourism Program director by email or 607-274-5560.
Online meetings of the STPB are conducted on Zoom. Access instructions for each meeting are included in the agenda.
STPB Member Support
STPB Membership
| Brett Bossard | Chair, Arts-Culture |
| Doug Levine | Vice Chair, Arts-Culture |
| Laura Winter Falk | At-Large |
| Josh Friedman | Arts-Culture |
| Jeff Golden | Ithaca College |
| Alexis Zaharis Grimm | Lodging |
| Ken Jupiter | At-Large |
| Kelly Makosch | Recreation |
| Rick Manning | At-Large |
| Greg Mezey | At-Large |
| Bethany Parisi | Arts-Culture |
| Scott Riesenberger | TC3 |
| Barbara Romano | Cornell University |
| Monika Roth | Agriculture |
| Jason Sidle | At-Large |
| Steve Stull | Arts-Culture |
| Teri Tarsus | At-Large |
| Marian Levy Ware | At-Large |
| Vacant | Lodging |
| Megan Barber | Community Arts Partnership, Non-Voting |
| Peggy Coleman | Convention & Visitors Bureau, Non-Voting |
| Nan Rohrer | Downtown Ithaca Alliance, Non-Voting |
| Mike Sigler | County Legislature, Non-Voting |
| Heather McDaniel | Ithaca Area Economic Development, Non-Voting |
| Vacant | Chamber of Commerce, Non-Voting |
| Frank Doldo | Transportation, Non-Voting |
| Michael Miller | Associate Member |
| Chuck Tauck | Associate Member |
| Nick Helmholdt | ပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိ |
| Kristin McCarthy | ပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိ |
STPB Meeting Agendas and Minutes
| 2024 Agendas | 2024 Minutes | 2024 Presentations |
| ယနူၤအါရံၤ | ယနူၤအါရံၤ | |
| ဖ့ၤဘြူၤအါရံၤ | ဖ့ၤဘြူၤအါရံၤ | Waters Edge Development |
| မာ်ရှး | မာ်ရှး | Finger Lakes Land Trust |
| အ့ဖြ့ၣ် | အ့ဖြ့ၣ် | Visit Ithaca 2023 Annual Report |
| မ့ၤ | မ့ၤ | Monumental Women Statues |
| ယူၤ | ယူၤ | |
| ယူၤလံ | ယူၤလံ | |
| August [no meeting] |
August [no meeting] |
|
| စဲးပထ့ဘၢၣ် | စဲးပထ့ဘၢၣ် | |
| အီးကထိဘၢၣ် | အီးကထိဘၢၣ် | |
| နိၣ်၀့ဘၢၣ် | နိၣ်၀့ဘၢၣ် | |
| ဒံၣ်စဲဘၢၣ် | ဒံၣ်စဲဘၢၣ် |
Agendas and minutes from 2022 and earlier are available upon request.