Tualatin Chamber History 1999

Tualatin Chamber of Commerce Pieces of our history
1999 - 2000

	1999 Board of Directors	2000 Board of Directors
President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Past President	John Bendit Claudia Clark David Nagel Ann Marie Currin Dwayne Scales	Claudia Clark David Nagel Lou Ogden Ann Marie Currin John Bendit
Directors:	Clyde Stryker Karen Lee Don Dauterman Deborah Jeffries Sonja Steves Steve Clark Steve Wheeler Lou Ogden Neta George Flyod Sklaver	Clyde Stryker Karen Lee Don Dauterman Deborah Jeffries Sonja Steves Steve Clark Steve Wheeler Floyd Sklaver Jeff Hilderbrand Neta George
HOME: Office still located on corner of Warm Springs and Boones Ferry Rd, next to Donut Land. STAFF: Marianne Pratt still executive director, Tiffany Block leaves in April 99 and is replaced by Heather Palmer as membership director, Dan Kaempff still running the TMA, Kimberly Harrow, receptionist.

1999

2000

EVENTS:
Charlie McDermott got a holein- one at the 10th annual golf tournament. Unfortunatley it wasn’t on the ‘car’ hole, but he still received a check for $250! Annual trade show with Wilsonville, holiday luncheon & auction, Chamber day at the Capitol, legislative breakfast and Car Free & Carefree week were our events in 1999.

IMPORTANT ISSUES:
Leadership Tualatin begins in September; fought for—and won– long-term funding for the Chambers Transportation Management Assoc., formed the Tualatin Hispanic Chamber (later called Grupo Latino); Tualatin Police Facility and Kaiser Permanente both break ground for new facilities;

Presidents Dwayne Scales (’98),
Russ Grove (’97), Mayor Ogden,
and John Bendit (’99)

MISCELLANEOUS:
• Created a government affairs committee which eventually changed their name to the Business Advocacy Committee.
• Semi-annual working dinner with the chamber board and the Tualatin City Council
• Business Advocacy committee testified at Senate sub-committee hearing on transportation in support of the I-5/99w Connector Road.
• May lunch topic: preparing for Y2K!
• Publish a Tualatin street map

Dan Kaempff TMA Manager

POLITICAL:
took positions on one ballot measure in the Primary election and six measures in the general election;

IMPORTANT ISSUES:
TMA shuttle ridership doubled to 40 per day; Hosted Senator Ron Wyden as a luncheon speaker; Grupo Latino Americano committee provides outreach to Hispanic businesses.

MISCELLANEOUS:
• Created quarterly ’Educational AM’ events
• Semi-annual working dinner with the City Council
• Created “Lunch & Learn” monthly brown bag sessions
• Celebrated the Crawfish Festival’s 50th anniversary!
• 2000 Goals include increasing membership to 40% of Tualatin business license holders, recruit 20 for Leadership Tualatin; and form a 501c3 Foundation

Chamber president John Bendit (center) and
Mayor Lou Ogden help Kaiser staff place the
cornerstone of their new facility

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Tualatin Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 701
18791 S.W. Martinazzi Ave.
Tualatin, Oregon 97062 U.S.A.
Phone: (503) 692-0780
Fax:(503) 692-6955
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