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May 5, 2008
Submit Your Letter of Support!
Support Efforts To Expand The 241 Toll Road
Improving Traffic Throughout Corona Region
 The
Corona Chamber is working to urge the United States
Secretary of Commerce to override the California
Coastal Commission’s objection to the Transportation
Corridor Agency’s application for the proposed State
Route 241 Toll Road expansion.
This is important to you because completing the 241
is critical to the economy of Southern California.
It provides an alternative to Interstate 5, the only
north-south route between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Traffic on I-5 is already gridlocked and traffic is
expected to increase 60 percent by 2025 if the road
is not completed. The increase in trade from Mexico
and the Far East is imposing enormous demands on the
Southern California regional transportation system.
The completion of State Route 241 is essential to
relieve congestion on I-5 attributable to increased
international trade.
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April 24,
2008
Corona
Chamber Supports Governor's Proposed Budget Rainy Day
Fund
 The
Corona Chamber of Commerce supports Governor
Schwarzenegger's proposed Budget Stabilization Act. This
Act will establish a Revenue Stabilization Fund (RSF),
which is simply a savings account for excess revenues
taken in by the state each year.
This
proposal is important to you because it
will limit future budget
deficits from impacting Corona and our region from drastic
cuts in important services such as education and
transportation funding.
"California’s economy
continues to grow, in spite of the current housing
downturn, and the state continues to enjoy overall job
growth," stated Cynthia Schneider, Chair of the Corona
Chamber's Legislative Action Committee. "However,
California still faces a projected $14 billion budget
gap that necessitates across-the-board-cuts. Something
needs to be done and the Governor's Revenue
Stabilization Fund is the right idea at the right time,"
continued Schneider.
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April 11, 2008
Submit Your
Letter of Support on Two Important Potential Laws Impacting
Transportation Throughout Corona
ISSUE 1:
AB
1954 is important to you because it will ease traffic congestion
in our region and improve the operation and construction of
carpool lanes (high-occupancy lanes).
AB
1954 will
allow for the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC)
to apply to the California Transportation Commission in regards
to developing and operating high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes,
including the administration and operation of a value pricing
program and exclusive or preferential lane facilities for public
transit.
Click here to submit your letter of
support on AB 1954!
ISSUE 2:
SB 1316 is important to you because it will streamline
improvement projects to State Route 91.
SB
1316 will give authority to the Riverside
County Transportation Commission (RCTC) over the existing toll
lane on State Highway Route 91 (SR-91) of the Riverside County
portion.
This bill essentially eliminates the Orange County
Transportation Authority’s (OCTA) rights and obligations of the
riverside portion of SR-91.
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support on SB 1316! |
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April 8, 2008
TAKE ACTION NOW! Submit Your
Letter Supporting Meal Period Reform
This issue is important to you because
it is a comprehensive solution that serves employers and
employees across all industries regardless of size or union
status, providing clarification so employees have the
opportunity to take meal breaks, enter into on-duty meal period
agreements in appropriate situations, and collectively bargain
for meal periods.
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April 2, 2008
Corona Chamber Continues Effort
to Protect Workers Compensation Reforms
As California’s workers’ compensation system continues its
historic transformation, employers need to remain vigilant in
the legislative, regulatory and legal arenas to protect
hard-fought reforms and ensure any future changes promote the
reform goals of increased efficiency, less litigation and better
outcomes for injured workers. The Corona Chamber has continued
to fight against repealing any of the reforms that have allowed
the workers compensation system to what it is today.
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March 26, 2008
Take
Action! Submit
Your Letter of Opposition on Another Healthcare Tax
This
proposal is important to you because it is estimated that it
would cost tens of billions of dollars to operate the health
care system envisioned by this proposal. These costs would
be financed through new health care taxes on consumers,
employees and businesses in California.
SB 840 creates a new government run,
multi-billion dollar socialized health care system built from a
yet to be specified tax increase, and on false premises and
failed attempts in past legislative sessions. California voters
have twice rejected a government-run health care system
– most recently in Proposition 72 in November 2004 and
in another initiative in 1994. Focus groups and numerous
opinion polls on health care reform have reinforced that
California residents do not want a single payer
government run system.
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March 20, 2008
Take
Action! Submit Your Letter of Support on Workplace Flexibility
Proposal
This
proposal is important to you because it allows businesses to
offer a flexible schedule in the workplace without having to
pay overtime.
The
Corona Chamber urges your support of
AB 2127, the Small Business Family Scheduling
Option of 2008. This state legislative proposal would allow employees and employers flexibility
in work schedules to help accommodate employees' diverse family
obligations, personal pursuits, commuting issues and
environmental concerns by allowing a small business to agree to
provide scheduling options requested by an employee.
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March 20, 2008
Corona Chamber Supports
Clean and Reliable Energy Project
The Corona Chamber of Commerce partnered with the
Californians for Clean and Reliable Energy Coalition
which supports the Sunrise Powerlink Project. The
Sunrise Powerlink Project will help ensure that the
business community and the region have reliable electric
service.
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February 22, 2008
Corona Chamber Supports Redistricting Reform Concept
The Corona Chamber of Commerce
supports the California Voters
FIRST Act concept
which seeks to reform the way
state legislators are elected. Every 10 years, after the
census, new boundary lines for the United States Congress
and California Senate, Assembly and Board of Equalization
districts are drawn. Currently, the California State
Legislature draws those lines.
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February
14, 2008
Corona Chamber Defeats
Mandated Healthcare Tax
A highly
controversial proposed healthcare reform failed to pass
the State Senate - ending a year-long debate over how to
fix California’s failing healthcare system. The Corona
Chamber of Commerce voted to oppose the Governor’s
proposal when, in the fall of 2007, he called a special
session of the legislature to deal with the reform
proposals.
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February 10, 2008
Chamber Championed
Indian Gaming Propositions Boost Corona Economy
On February 5, 2008, California voters approved the
Corona Chamber-supported Propositions 94 through 97.
These propositions ratified Indian gaming agreements
with four tribes that operate casinos within an hour’s
drive of Corona. The four casinos impacted by the
agreements ratified by votes are: Agua Caliente,
Morongo, Pechanga, and Sycuan.
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February 8, 2008
California Coastal Commission Stops 241 Toll Road
Expansion Proposal
Late last year, the Corona Chamber of Commerce
voted to support the proposed extension of the SR
241 Foothill South Toll Road. However, on February
6, 2008, the California Coastal Commission voted 8-2
to reject the proposed 16-mile extension. The
commission cited the road's infringement on San
Onofre State Park as their primary reasoning.
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January 5, 2008
Corona Chamber Continues to
Highlight the Fight Against Workers’ Comp Rate Increases
The Corona Chamber applauds California Insurance Commissioner
Steve Poizner’s recommendation late last year to not raise the
“pure premium advisory rates” for workers’ compensation
insurance beginning January 1, 2008. This will help insure that
reforms from 2004 continue to help businesses maintain stability
when dealing with the workers compensation system. It also
stresses the need to continue fighting against any type of
workers’ compensation rate increase for the future.
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January 3,
2008
Corona Chamber to Protect
Businesses Against State Air Quality Mandates
The Corona Chamber of Commerce is urging its local
legislators and other elected officials to work with the
California Air Resources Board (CARB) in developing
regulations that target heavy-duty diesel vehicles are
fair to the businesses and individuals that own and
operate these types of vehicles.
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