With the influx of retirees, it opens up the opportunity to create shops.
We're fortunate that Five Star has opened their beautiful plantation to us so that we can offer the community a very special event. It'll be fun because it's a sportsman enthusiast's dream.
We're really one community, just in different places. That's what the council of chambers is all about.
We're all finding that education is key to economic development. That's what we've been saying all along.
We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.
We certainly appreciated that he came here and asked what questions and concerns we might have. At this point there are just a lot of unknowns.
Right now, we bill out twice a year. We consider it past due after 30 days.
Some people think it's a department of the city. It's not. Membership dues is what carries us along.
It's more of a recognition thing. They tell us who the winner is.
It just costs money to have marketing materials.
They can walk out the door of the technology center making $60,000 a year. That's not bad.
The chamber works to a large degree from member dues.