Annual Business Meeting

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2008 Annual Business Meeting
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Mike Murchie Regional President, M T Bank
2008 Chair, Chamber Board of Directors
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Annual Dinner Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Hershey
Lodge
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Terry Lehman bmc
2008 Treasurer, Chamber Board of Directors
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• Summary of Revenue Expenses
• 11/30 year to date 2008 Budget
• Total Revenues 2,347,379 3,051,651
• Membership Dues
• Pledges
• Events
• Projects Fees
• Total Expenses 2,536,794 3,050,223
• Salaries Benefits
• Events
• Rent, Maintenance, Utilities
• Professional Fees Project Costs
• Advertising Marketing

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Mike Murchie Regional President, M T Bank
2008 Chair, Chamber Board of Directors
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• Retiring Board Members
• Rick Atkinson
• HDH Byerly, Past Chair
• Bony Dawood
• Dawood Engineering
• Russ Swanger
• BAE
• Frank Miles
• Hershey Entertainment Resorts
• Ray Harris
• PPC Lubricants
• Allen Westbrook
• UGI Utilities, Inc., Past Chair

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• New Board Members
• Garrett Gallia Hershey Entertainment Resorts
• Donna Schankweiler Journal Publications
• Kathleen Pavelko WITF
• Joe Massaro Hilton/Harristown Development
• Bub Manning The Quandel Group, Inc.

• Officers
• Chair Sandi Loy Bell, Skelly Loy, Inc
• 1st Vice Chair Dr. Madlyn Hanes, Penn State,
  Harrisburg
• 2nd Vice Chair Terry Lehman, bmc
• Treasurer Maryann Chiavetta, Benatec Associates
• Secretary Mike Fiaschetti, Highmark
• RRP Laura Williams, Giant Food Stores, LLC
• CREDC Chair Kelly Powell Logan, AES/PHEAA
• Past Chair Mike Murchie, M T Bank
• President CEO David Black, HRC/CREDC

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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC

• Exposure for Your Business
• Opportunities to Network!
• Phone Calls 9,000
• Website Visits 146,000
• Network, Network, Network
• Events 80 w/ 13,000 attendees
• Over 5,000 reached every week with e-gram
• Diplomats Ambassadors
• 682 Businesses Personally Contacted
• Ribbon Cuttings 27
• Media Hits 500
• Radio, Television and Print
• Membership Directories 5,000

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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC

• Your Voice in Government
• Full Time Government Relations Manager
• 2 Registered Lobbyists
• Exceptional knowledge of players process
• 2008 Focus
• Helped to stop Energy Tax
• Push for Health Care Reform
• Voice of Region on Chesapeake Bay Funding
• Power of Numbers
• DC Trip with Lancaster York Chambers
• Getting Involved
• HRC/PAC contributions to successful candidates
• Focus on PA General Assembly and issues

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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC

• Chamber Business Women
• Dynamic New Program
• 4 Events in 2008
• 400 Attendees
• Business Womens Forum
• Leading in Regional Collaboration with Chambers
• Over 900 Attendees
• Business Diversity Initiative
• 20 of CREDC Loans to Minorities Women
• EDS Seminar Series
• Business Diversity Works Conference 400
  attendees
• Support and Collaboration with
• Hispanic Chamber
• African American
• Gay Lesbian Chambers
• Opportunities for Mentorship
• One-on-one meetings and referral service

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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC
For Every 1.00 in Dues Paid 2.50 was spent on
Member Activities Return on Investment 2.5 to 1
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Matt Steck Partner Greenlee Partners LLC
2008 Chair, CREDC Board of Directors
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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC

• Started demolition and reconstruction on Charles
  D. Snyder Son Project at 10th Walnut St.
• Began work on Keystone Opportunity Zone projects
  in Harrisburg Steelton

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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC

• Business Financing
• 4.9M in Business Financing Projects
• 12 Projects
• 11.6 M in Bank Equity Participation
• 215 Jobs created retained
• Murata
• 10 Companies, 84 employees
• 50 Attended Business Boot Camps
• Since 2001
• 240M Economic Impact
• Over 10,600 jobs created retained

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Your Investments in the Chamber CREDC
Every 1.00 Invested (Pledge) CREDC Campaign
Returned 55.00
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• Retiring Board Members
• John Brinjac Brinjac Engineering
• Larry Kluger Journal Publications (Past Chair)
• Bub Manning The Quandel Group, Inc. (Past
  Chair)
• Sue Yenchko PA American Water (Past Chair)
• Dennis Walsh The Bravo Group

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• New Board Members
• Carol Cocheres Eckert Seamans Cherin
  Mellott
• Michael Hund Buchanan, Ingersol, Rooney
• Rick Seitz Alexander Building Construction, LLC
  
• Allen Westbrook UGI Utilities, Inc.
• Megan Madsen Neiman Group

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• Officers
• Chair Kelly Powell Logan, AES/PHEAA
• Vice Chair Chip Brown, McClure Company
• 2nd Vice Chair Gary Stouffer, Rettew Associates
• Treasurer Sue Pera, Cornerstone Coffeehouse
• Secretary Aji Abraham, Capital BlueCross
• Chamber Chair Sandi Loy Bell, Skelly Loy
• Past Chair Matt Steck, Greenlee Partners LLC
• President David Black, HRC/CREDC

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Dave Black President CEO Harrisburg Regional
Chamber CREDC
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• 2009 Priorities
• Helping Members thrive or survive a tough economy
• Chamber/CREDC affordable means of marketing
• Chamber/CREDC great source of information/resource
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• Getting the organization through challenging
  times
• Budget is down 10
• Staff is smaller and sacrifices have been made
• Planning for the future
• Board Staff working on 5 year Strategery
• Fiscal, program and fulfilling our mission
• Celebrating the Past 95th Anniversary
• Building toward 100 2014
• Annual Dinner Bigger Better

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• 2009 Priorities
• Demonstrating Return on Investment
• Business lending at 3
• Remediation/Redevelopment Projects
• Take Murata to next level for area entrepreneurs
• Chamber communications newsletters, e-Gram,
  etc.
• Government Issues Your voice this year more
  than ever
• Retention of young talent and growth of workforce
• Build identity of Harrisburg Region
• Doing more stuff better
• Thank You.

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Our region is a great place to live, work and
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