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Chamber Board elects new Chair
Chamber Board elects new Executive Committee
Chamber Board selects new appointees | Y2K help on the way
Membership Directory updates | Revised position paper now available
CHAMBER ELECTS COMMUNITY LEADER AS 1999 CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD -- Leadership SLO graduate Debby Nicklas has been elected by the Chamber Board of Directors to serve as Chairman of the Board for 1999. Nicklas, now serving her second term on the Board, is the Chief Business Development Officer for Central Coast Health Partners and its affiliates French Hospital Medical Center and Arroyo Grande Community Hospital. A Board member since 1996, she has served in various capacities including: Vice-chair of both Community Affairs and Legislative Economic Action, Committee Chairperson for the Leadership SLO program and has served on numerous committees during her tenure.
SELECT SIX TO SERVE ON CHAMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE -- Six of the Chamber's 21-member Board of Directors have been elected to serve on this year's Executive Committee. Serving as Officers in 1999 will be: Dave Cox of Barnett Cox & Associates, Vice-chair, Legislative/Economic Action Committee; Jeanne Potter of Glenn Burdette Phillips & Bryson, Vice-chair, Membership/Operations; Sandi Sigurdson of the SLO Symphony, Vice-Chair, Community Affairs; Jack Penrod of J.R. Penrod, Treasurer; Dave Juhnke of Sinsheimer Schiebelhut & Baggett, Board Counsel; and Anita Robinson of Mission Community Bank, Immediate Past Chair.
ACCOMPLISHED TRIO APPOINTED TO CHAMBER BOARD -- The 1999 Board of Directors met for the first time in December to discuss this year's goals and voted to appoint Lauren Brown of JBL Scientific, Sandi Sigurdson of SLO Symphony and Cal Poly representative Bill Boldt to the Chamber Board. These three individuals, along with newly elected and continuing Board members will meet monthly to determine Chamber policy, approve programs developed by Chamber committees, councils and task forces and oversee the fiscal stability of the organization. One more appointment is still pending.
CHAMBER OFFERS HELP TO MEMBERS PREPARING FOR THE YEAR 2000 -- The Chamber is extending a helping hand to those small businesses who haven't begun preparation for the impending Year 2000 (Y2K) problem and don't know where to begin. Thanks to the generosity of FirstBank of San Luis Obispo, the Chamber is offering a video to help members assess their potential Y2K problem. The 13-minute video tells business owners and managers what they should look for in their place of business to make a smooth transition into the new millennium -- without any technological glitches. The videos are available, for loan, at the Chamber's Visitors Center.
NEW LOOK FOR NEW MEMBERS SERVES AS HANDY REFERENCE TOOL-- You'd like to contact the dog groomer who joined the Chamber a few months ago, but can't find the issue of San Luis Obispo Business that he was listed in. Sound familiar? In an effort to solve that problem, new members will now be listed on an 8½" x 11" sheet of paper that you can handily insert into your Membership Directory on a monthly basis. New members will be listed categorically, following the format of the Directory, and will be mailed with San Luis Obispo Business each month. Online users can download the file using Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01.
REVISED POSITION PAPER ON SLO'S WATER SITUATION NOW AVAILABLE -- An updated version of Water: Ensuring the Future, the Chamber's position paper on the availability of water resources in San Luis Obispo, is now available in limited quantities. The update, which took the Water Task Force two years to complete was recently approved by the Chamber's Board of Directors. The document focuses on what the Chamber believes to be the three best options for securing additional water for residents: Water Reuse, Salinas Dam Expansion, and Nacimiento Project -- and outlines the costs and supply potential for each. If you're interested in receiving a free copy, stop by the Chamber's Visitors Center. |
