Expensive Chamber Members and Enterprise Community,
Our Annual Community Conference is at all times an energized gathering of a whole lot of Chamber members and their households to share views about vital neighborhood points, obtain updates about key initiatives, and to resume our dedication to working collectively to construct a greater future for all.
Within the midst of the COVID-19 influence and the widespread shutdown of regular neighborhood life, we have now been actively centered on finalizing a call relating to the 2020 Conference, set for August, in Amelia Island. We’ve got reviewed COVID-19 reopening pointers and suggestions set forth by federal, state and native officers, monitored well being metrics, requested member suggestions and mentioned with different affiliation executives their very own choice course of about Summer time conferences and/or conferences.
It’s very clear by the newest each day updates in regards to the COVID-19 presence in Florida that the menace to public well being by this pandemic has not handed – and well being specialists advise that ongoing precautions and safeguards should be regularly embraced within the months forward. Primarily based on that actuality and the enter we have now acquired from our members, volunteer management and Chamber employees, the Better Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce has determined to cancel this 12 months’s Annual Community Conference, accredited by a unanimous vote from our Board of Administrators.
The protection and well-being of all of our members, attendees and their households are the precedence that compelled this essential choice. The lodge has been notified of our choice and you’ll obtain notification of the cancellation and refund procedures for these of you with lodge room reservations. Chamber employees can even keep in touch with you relating to convention registration reimbursement.
Whereas we remorse the necessity to cancel the convention, all of us have vital work to do, individually and collectively, on this difficult time, right here at dwelling. Our neighborhood is correctly and deeply concerned within the important nationwide dialogue about guaranteeing America’s promise of equality to all is fulfilled, every single day, and in each establishment of our society. We’re adjusting and adapting our programming to be most related to the wants of our neighborhood. That features lively involvement in supporting reforms in institutional insurance policies which can be boundaries to equality and selling financial prosperity and equality. Whereas our agenda and packages certainly proceed to incorporate small enterprise sources, financial growth and focused trade development, residential and actual property traits, Okay-12 and better schooling programming to bridge the expertise hole, 2020 poll initiatives and way more, we’re additionally pivoting to handle probably the most pressing priorities of this time.
Keep tuned for data on webinars, in-person and hybrid classes to be offered throughout the the rest of 2020, as we proceed to serve you and our neighborhood. Mark your calendar for August 13-15, 2021 for subsequent 12 months’s Annual Chamber Community Conference. We’ll see you there!
We thanks on your continued help as a member and on your dedication to our neighborhood. Be nicely and we’ll see you quickly!
All the most effective,
Beth Corum
Chair, Better Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce
EVP & Co-Chief Working Officer, Capital Metropolis Financial institution
