Yesterday at the City of Tallahassee budget workshop, the City Commission voted unanimously to repeal the City’s long standing business license tax. The repeal will require an ordinance change from the Commission, but Commissioners indicated their desire to pass such an ordinance as soon as possible with a 5-0 unanimous vote in support of repealing […]
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CITY BUDGET WORKSHOP Wednesday, July 13 | 1:00pm | Tallahassee Senior Center Business License Tax In June of 2016 the Chamber’s Business Advocacy Committee voted to request that the City of Tallahassee repeal the Business License Tax as part of the Fiscal Year 2016-17 budget process. As part of that motion the members also supported […]
LEON COUNTY COMMISSION Regular Meeting 6/14/2016 Consideration of a Request by the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce to Include Industry Stakeholder Input and an Evaluation of Other Transportation Fee Alternatives in the Mobility Fee Study Process On May 24th, Chamber Chair-Elect Reggie Bouthillier sent a letter to City and County officials regarding the proposed mobility […]
Read More… from Business Advocacy Committee Update – June 13, 2016
Today, the Chamber Board of Directors met at the TCC Ghazvini Center for their regular meeting. BAC Chair, Ed Murray presented an update on the ongoing work of the BAC. As part of that update, Ed Murray presented a letter that was recently sent from Chamber Chair-Elect, Reggie Bouthillier on behalf of the BAC and […]
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WORKSHOP TO SHAPE FUTURE LOCAL ECONOMIC GROWTH As part of The Small Business Development Center at FAMU’s Small Business Week, local business owners are invited to join the Office of Economic Vitality for a listening and networking workshop, which will inform the strategic planning process for future economic development in our community. This is an […]
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The Chamber’s Business Advocacy Committee continues to monitor local government and report out information that may be pertinent for your business. Below you will find highlighted items in the upcoming County and City Commission meetings that we wanted to bring your your attention, in addition to updates of ongoing BAC efforts. LEON COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING 5/10 AT 3:00PM Approval of a […]
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MOBILITY FEE STUDY The Chamber staff and BAC members have met with City & County staff to share our concerns about the mobility fee, our frustration with the concurrency fee system as it exists today and our desire to help shape a more meaningful structure going forward. Based on those discussions, staff expects the Chamber […]
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MOBILITY FEE UPDATE The City of Tallahassee and Leon County have both recently voted to move forward with consideration of hiring a consultant to study the possibilities of implementing a new mobility fee in the city and county. Each Commission has decided to host the full discussion regarding the hiring of a consultant during their […]
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CHAMBER SUPPORTS PROPOSED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECOSYSTEM On February 29th, the Intergovernmental Agency (IA) – made up of the city and county commission – will vote to establish itself as the region’s new economic development organization (EDO) responsible for determining projects and initiatives to fund with $90 million expected from the Blueprint penny sales tax. Within […]
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NOISE ORDINANCE STILL NEEDS WORK The Greater Tallahassee Area Chamber of Commerce has been actively engaged in this issue going back to 2013. We have hosted forums for the business community to provide their input and perspectives on the ordinance, we have had Chamber leadership sit on a community panel staffed by the City and recently […]
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