CHAMBER WILL DESIGNATE NEW DIRECTORS TODAY; BOARD FACES BUDGET DOWNTURNS.Byline: Krystn Shrieve n. 1. A sheriff. v. t. 1. To shrive; to question. Staff Writer A new board of directors is expected to be chosen today to help lead the Agoura-Las Virgenes Chamber of Commerce, which has struggled to continue providing services despite financial difficulties. Budget downturns and poor turnouts to annual fund raisers A Fund Raiser' is an organized event, attempting to collect money. The money to be collected is usually for a specific item or need. The event also can entail gimmicks or activities to promote donor interest. forced the chamber to lay off its executive director in September September: see month. , and earlier cuts had already forced it to lay off its office manager, leaving no one to staff the office full-time full-time adj. Employed for or involving a standard number of hours of working time: a full-time administrative assistant. full . However, officials are looking forward to rebuilding the organization that serves the business community in Agoura Hills and surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. areas with the help of new leadership. ``The new group of people will give the chamber the shot in the arm it needs,'' said Alex (language) Alex - 1. A polymorphic language being developed by Stephen Crawley <sxc@itd.dtso.oz.au> of Defence Science & Tech Org, Australia. Alex has abstract data types, type inference and inheritance. 2. Soteras, for one, hopes to draw more board membership from local corporations that he believes can use their large employee base to help support the chamber. ``We want to get board members from large companies, not just mom-and-pop mom-and-pop adj. 1. Of or being a small business that is typically owned and run by members of a family: a mom-and-pop grocery store. 2. companies,'' said Soteras, who owns a mortgage company in Agoura Hills. ``We need a broader base from our corporate community to help support the chamber and the chamber functions.'' Corporate companies, Soteras said, employ more people and have the potential to reach out to more people and encourage them to shop locally or be active in chamber activities. In all, 14 candidates are competing for 11 seats on the board. Agoura Hills Mayor Dan Kuperberg said he hopes the chamber is able to help to promote all businesses, and is willing to work with other groups in the community. Though he adds he won't know what role the chamber will play until after the new leaders are on board, he hopes the chamber will work to serve existing businesses while it tries to bring in new ones. ``I hope the chamber recognizes that it has a role, and that its primary role is to serve the businesses in town, not necessarily just to bring in new businesses,'' Kuperberg said. ``It must serve the businesses we already have.'' |
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