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Legislative Action Committee (LAC)
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Cynthia
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2011 LAC Chair
American Security
Bank
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The mission of the Greater Corona Valley Chamber of Commerce Legislative Action
Committee (LAC) is to provide a basis for the Chamber to
act on local, state and federal government issues and have a
good working relationship with its elected officials thus
creating a favorable and profitable business climate.
The LAC consists of 15 voting members and composition shall be
representative of the general Chamber membership.
LAC membership is open to all Chamber members in good
standing.
LAC meetings are open to all members of the Chamber.
Beginning in October of each year, the LAC develops a
Policy Platform consistent with the LAC’s mission statement that
shall serve as the public policy priorities for following year.
The Policy Platform is recommended to the Board of
Directors in January of each year for approval.
Recent Awards
LAC Chair Cynthia Schneider Receives
California Small
Business
Advocate of the Year Award
LAC Meeting Information
Next LAC Meeting:
First Friday of
each month at 8:00am
Greater Corona
Valley Chamber of
Commerce
Conference Room
904 East Sixth
Street
Corona, CA 92879
(951) 737-3350
LAC Meeting Agendas
Greater Corona Valley Chamber Represents the Interests of
Business in 2010
The Greater Corona Valley Chamber of Commerce effectively
represented the interest of Corona businesses at all levels of
government in 2010. The Chamber tracked over thirty potential
new laws that would have a significant impact on our business
community. We also focused our efforts on the proposed
legislation with the highest potential of creating jobs in one
of the toughest economies in history.
“We are extremely proud of our entire Legislative Action
Committee and all that they were able to achieve in 2010,” said
Cynthia Schneider, Chair of the Greater Corona Valley Chamber’s
Legislative Action Committee. “It was an intense year for the
Corona business community but the Chamber worked hard to protect
business interests so our business community could focus on what
they do best…driving our local economy.”
The following are major highlights of the many issues and
accomplishments completed by the Greater Corona Valley Chamber’s
Legislative Action Committee:
• Hundreds of letters were sent to Corona-area federal
representatives, the Governor, local state legislators, and
other stakeholders on legislation and issues that would have
impacted the Greater Corona Valley business community.
• The Chamber protected businesses against proposed increases in
workers compensation rates and has continually fought against
the repealing any of the reforms from 2004 which have allowed
the workers compensation system to remain equitable and kept the
cost of doing business in California under control.
• The Chamber supported the Governor’s California Jobs
Initiative consisting of 5 major components to get the state’s
economy back on track. Most of the components are now being
included in the ongoing state budget negotiations.
• The Chamber urged the business community to understand the
impact of 14 statewide ballot measures on both the May 2010
Primary Election and the November 2010 General Election.
• The Chamber led the local effort to urge legislative leaders
to stand firm on not raising taxes in order to balance the state
budget and supported the Governor’s attempt to include pension
reform in the budget negotiations.
• The Chamber successfully defeated a paid sick leave mandate
that would have forced businesses to provide paid sick leave to
all employees and would have unreasonably expanded employer’s
and local government agencies’ costs and liability by mandating
a specific paid sick leave policy.
• The Chamber created www.HighSpeed15.com and launched a letter
writing campaign to increase the regional support for California
High-Speed Rail Train System proposed alternative route along
the I-15 freeway with a station located in the City of Corona.
• The Chamber led the local effort to oppose Proposition 16,
which would have require a two-thirds voter approval before
local governments could provide electricity service to customers
using public funds or bonds and making it more difficult than it
is currently for local entities to form either municipal
utilities, or community wide electricity districts.
• The Chamber supported local business member’s legislative
proposal that would legalize alkaline hydrolysis, a process that
speed up the natural decomposition process, in California and
positive reform in the industry.
• The Chamber opposed a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) before the
Riverside Community College District Board of Trustees and
launched an aggressive letter writing campaign to urge a “NO”
vote. The Riverside Community College District Board of Trustees
approved the PLA despite the Chamber’s efforts to secure wide
community opposition.
• The Chamber helped to deaf a proposed piece of legislation
that would have reduced the availability of free parking that
helps attract customers to local shops and businesses in certain
communities. The proposal would have stalled the economic
recovery and pushed potential foot traffic out of downtown
communities.
• The Chamber defeated attempts to undermine Corona’s water
reliability, threatening jobs and the economic health of the
regional community, by opposing a legislative proposal that
would have revised last year’s historic compromise that
addressed water flow problems from the Delta in Northern
California.
• The Chamber once again joined forces with the Riverside County
Transportation Commission (RCTC) for a Design-Build Program for
the SR-91 corridor improvement project which will allow for
reduced traffic congestion and create critical construction jobs
locally.
• The Chamber supported proposed federal legislation that would
positively impact the future competitiveness and environmental
soundness of the Long Beach and Los Angeles Ports that many
Corona based businesses use to transport their goods globally.
• The Chamber urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) to deny a petition by the Natural Resource Defense Council
(NRDC) that would have blocked critical permits for small
manufacturing businesses and slowed the investment of millions
of dollars of improvements.
• The Chamber was an early supporter of the Proposition 22,
dubbed the Local Taxpayers, Public Safety, and Transportation
Act which will prohibit the State from taking, borrowing or
redirecting local taxpayer funds dedicated to public safety,
emergency response and other vital local government services.
• The Chamber supported Proposition 23, the suspension of AB 32,
which would delay the operation and implementation of AB 32
requirements until California’s unemployment rate returns to the
levels that existed at the time of its adoption, 5.5% or less,
for four consecutive calendar quarters.
• The Chamber released its Sixth Annual Vote Record on its local
statewide elected officials which helps to keep them accountable
to the Greater Corona Valley business community. |
