 GOALS:
raise $3,000 between May and December. May newsletter states “Marcia is gone and so is the CE2 student. The financial picture is still a problem.” Due to unknown circumstances, the chamber needed to raise $3,000 to cover expenses through the end of the year. A plan is devised to rent booth space at the Tualatin Crawfish Festival to commercial enterprises as a fund-raiser for the Chamber. The Crawfish Festival organization changed their bylaws, with the blessing of the Tualatin City Council, and 60 booths were sold for $100 each. The only caveat: food vendors could not sell the same item as a local non-profit organization.
IMPORTANT ISSUES:
Speakers at monthly lunch forums continue to be public officials talking about local, regional and statewide issues that affect Tualatin.
MISCELLANEOUS:
• Velma Dickson ‘temporarily’ joins the chamber as office administrator. Velma is a U of O graduate, and is active in the Meridian Park Hospital Auxiliary and the Tualatin Senior Center.
• The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity paints the inside of the new chamber ‘headquarters’. Payment: a foot-long-and-a -half sub from Boston’s Sandwiches.
• 1985 netted eight new members: 22 joined and 14 dropped. Only 17 of 187 members attended November luncheon.
• Chamber Vice-president Gary Bursell, of the Hervin Dog Food Company takes over writing the Chamber Newsletter |
GOALS:
Getting membership up to 200; increasing attendance at monthly lunch forum by changing to once a month (2nd Tuesday).
IMPORTANT ISSUES:
The Chamber worked with the I-5 Corridor Assoc. and Tualatin Valley Economic Development Commission (TVEDC) to convince ODOT to put a freeway sign at the I-5 / I-205 interchange showing people the way to Seattle via I-5 so travelers would be encouraged to travel down I-5 and through Portland, thereby encouraging local tourism and bed nights as weary travelers stopped for the evening.
1985 president
Ellen Bechtold, On The
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MISCELLANEOUS:
• September newsletter is a new format with masthead, different fonts & clipart. Printed in a different color ink each month. Up to 8 pages, including a 2- page calendar, by December.
• Newsletter costs $80/month to produce and mail to 260 addresses. It was 4 pages long and business card size ads cost $20 (newsletter now costs $800/mo to produce and mail to 450 addresses. It is 16 pages long and business card size ads cost $25!)
• New Activities Committee will greet new businesses town to encourage them to join the Chamber.
• UPS schedules spring construction of their new 97,480 square foot facility on Manhasset. Chamber ‘headquarters’ located in Tualatin Community Park
Chamber ‘headquarters’ located in
Tualatin Community Park |
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Tualatin Chamber of Commerce