2017 began with the reelection of Al Taylor as chairman of our committee. The first few meetings of the year were dedicated to drafting a 2017 Legislative Priorities to be presented to the Board of Directors for their approval at the February meeting. During this process members of the committee were tasked with verifying information… [Continue Reading]
Marcia Gaedcke reported to the committee about her Citizen’s for Space trip. She and our Chairman, Carla McCrea attended. She stated that this was the smallest group of travelers but they were able to make the most visits to our Representatives and Senators. Over the 2-day period. Their mission was to seek support for growth… [Continue Reading]
JB Kump a member of Business Voice told the committee that that group will begin interviewing candidates for offices above the municipal level. The same questions will be asked of all candidates running for the same office. Membership in that group is still open and there are three levels of membership which allows businesses of… [Continue Reading]
Citizens for Space, a self- funded trip to Washington is May 24-26th. There is a small scholarship available to encourage people to attend. Lockheed Martin, who provided the scholarship would like to see more students attend. Business Voice is working to interview candidate before making their endorsements. Our Legislative Breakfast is scheduled for May 19th…. [Continue Reading]
The committee decided that they would like to have a speaker invited every other month. Some of the people they were interested in hearing from are Kathryn Rudloff, Executive Director of Business Voice, John Murry, CEO of Canaveral Port Authority (our April luncheon speaker) and Leigh Holt of TPO. We will reach out to Tom… [Continue Reading]
Three of our committee are going to Tallahassee with about 35 others from Brevard County to share legislative priorities with our state representatives. An issue of all four (4) chambers in Brevard County is the phase out of sales tax on commercial leases. JB Kump will represent us as part of Business Voice, a group… [Continue Reading]
Al Taylor, Coldwell Banker’s, was nominated to chair this committee in 2016. We spent most of our time at this meeting listening to two (2) speakers. The first was Jim Ball. Jim reported about the space program and the legislation that was passed by the US Senate and House of Representative and was awaiting the… [Continue Reading]
About 50 people participated in the survey the committee sent. The results were collated and the responses were reviewed. Some of the comments will be referred to the city as they are more pertinent to them. An issue arose coming from realtors that will be added to the document submitted to the board. Florida is… [Continue Reading]
The committee began the process of drafting a 2016 Legislative agenda. This document will be sent to our Board of Directors for their approval at their October meeting. A survey consisting of some of the following was approved. Some of the issues that were discussed concerned insurance. Since rates have begun to fall this might… [Continue Reading]
Our Governmental Affairs Committee did not meet in July but will meet on August 23rd here at the chamber at 8 am. If you are interested in attending, please feel free to join us. Our chamber luncheon on August 12th was to have featured State Representative Tom Goodson (R) District 50 as the speaker. The… [Continue Reading]