Our Committees

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Oversees the Ambassador Club
• Acts as a liaison between the Ambassadors and the Chamber Board
• Assists the Ambassadors with their projects
• Continually works to improve the Ambassador Club program and its benefits for both Ambassadors and the Chamber

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Selects and recommends potential new board members to the board of directors
• Creates and maintains an introduction packet for board nominees
• Creates and maintains an orientation booklet for newly elected board members
• Hosts and facilitates an orientation for newly elected board members

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Reviews and addresses Chamber needs in regards to buildings
• Manages of all the properties available for sale by the Chamber
• Recommends selling prices for Chamber owned properties

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Reviews the chamber's bylaws as needed for updates
• Ensures that the chamber board follows and upholds the bylaws correctly
• Makes recommended changes of the bylaws to the board which are ultimately submitted to the investors for voting

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Works closely with the County IDA and Area Chambers to create a County Incubator Building
• Attends meetings and reports the progress of those meetings to the Chamber board

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Find ways to ensure income for the fund
• Determine which disasters constitute use of funds
• Create and maintain funding guidelines and applications
• Collect and review applications for funding
• Decide on recipients of funding
• Recommend funding disbursements

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Creates the annual schedule of speakers for investor meetings
• Plans and facilitates the Chamber’s annual holiday investor meeting in December
• Assists with securing locations and caterers for the monthly investor meetings
• Recommends ideas for improving or enhancing the monthly investor meetings

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Generates a healthy climate for economic, business, industrial, and civic growth, and identifies areas of concern
• Monitors, evaluates, and helps to formulate legislative issues
• Evaluates ballot issues that affect local businesses and the community
• Makes recommendations to the Chamber Board for endorsements
• Is responsible for building relationships and networks between the Chamber and elected officials across all levels of government

Goals/Responsibilities:

• To create and maintain policies & procedures of the Chamber of Commerce as needed
• To review and update policies & procedures of the Chamber of Commerce periodically
• To create and maintain employee policies & procedures as needed

To review and update employee policies & procedures periodically

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Recruits non-board members to serve as committee members
• Reviews current investor benefits eliminating any that become obsolete or unbeneficial
• Explores and creates new investor benefits
• Communicates awareness of benefits to investors
• Recruits new investors
• Assists with investor retention

Goals/Responsibilities:

• Creates and outlines a scholarship program offered by the Chamber to select Central High School students for attendance at one of our local community colleges
• Recruits representatives from Central High School and the local community colleges to serve on the committee
• Designs the scholarship guidelines
• Coordinates the scholarship program with Central High School and the local community colleges
• Ensures funding for the scholarship
• Selects the scholarship recipient
• Evaluates and recommends improvements to the scholarship program periodically