The
Government Relations Council (GRC) provides a basis for
the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce to act on local, state and federal
government issues, thus creating a favorable and profitable business
climate.
Each
year, GRC members review proposed local, state or federal legislation or
issue which might have ramifications for Redondo Beach businesses. GRC
meets the first Friday of each month at 8:00am.
GRC
membership is open to all Chamber members in good standing and its meetings
are open to all members of the Chamber and invited guests.
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Redondo
Beach Chamber Member John
Parsons Honored for Representing Business in Redondo
Beach and the South Bay
Six California
small business professionals were honored at the California
Chamber’s “Small Business Legislative Summit” in Sacramento
on May 25th. The honorees were recognized for their advocacy
efforts on behalf of small business.
Local Chambers throughout California submitted nominations
and a task force made up of the California Chamber’s Small
business Committee made the selections. The criteria used in
the selection process included involvement in local, state
and federal legislative issues, testifying at government
hearings, authoring articles, conducting research on issues,
serving in a leadership capacity on local and state ballot
measures and leadership in local and regional issues.
Ann Garten, Chair of the Board of the Redondo Beach
Chamber and Chair-Elect for the South Bay Association of
Commerce (SBACC) said “John Parsons was an excellent
candidate for the Business Advocate of the Year Award for
his efforts in retaining the Los Angeles Air Force base
alone, not to mention his ongoing leadership is retaining
the 310 area code. Jacki Bacharach, the Executive Director
of the South Bay Council of Governments said “John works
tirelessly in everything he is involved in, he just seems to
have more hours in his day than the rest of us”.
When not focusing on retaining the LAAFB, John is an
influential voice in the efforts to save the 310 Area Code,
another top priority for businesses in the South Bay. John
has traveled to San Francisco to testify at hearings, he has
met on numerous occasions PUC officials and industry leaders
and has helped to develop articles and letters for our
members.
As a city Councilman of Redondo Beach has been a stellar
pro-business representative. Prior to our recent election an
aggressive business tax increase was proposed to help with
the City’s projected deficit. John successfully argued “it
has never been this council’s policy to lay this entire
burden on business”.
John Parsons is in the business of holding people
accountable and the business community could not ask for a
more formable representative. Chamber leaders know that if
we need assistance on a tough issue whether local, state or
federal we can count on his influence and leadership.
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