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The Fairfield Area Chamber
of Commerce Legislative Agenda
was ratified by the Chamber Board of Directors
on March 7, 2013 on a unanimous vote.
- Michael Halley, Danaher Oil
- Seth Miller, Cambridge Investment Research
- Nancy Morrissey, Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce
The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce supports:
- Reviewing state rules and regulations that affect Iowa’s business climate to assure they do not inhibit businesses from expanding or locating in the state. Iowa’s rules and regulations should not exceed standards established by the federal government. Jobs impact reports should be attached to all proposed state rules and regulations.
- Preserving Iowa’s Right-to-Work status.
The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce supports:
- Improving our states business competiveness by reforming our commercial and industrial property tax system.
- Simplifing and reduce corporate income taxes.
- Flattening and streamlining of the personal income tax code.
The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce supports:
- Expanding business and school collaboration to ensure that Iowa will have the skilled workforce to grow and create high-paying jobs.
- Establishing a program to provide assistance and resources to sustain local ownership of businesses through succession planning techniques.
- Maintaining Tax Increment Financing as a local economic development tool.
- Amending current state assistance wage threshold requirements to better reflect project and community dynamics.
- Improving training, development, and retention of skilled labor in business and industry through the use of increased training grants and public/private partnerships.
- Increasing funding for Iowa Economic Development Authority and its business and community project assistance funds.
- Improving the transportation infrastructure by increasing the funding options to address critical needs.
The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce supports:
- Reforming state-level education policy to include increased emphasis on math and science skills development, performance-based assessment programs for educators and students, and statewide accountability standards.
- Setting allowable growth for education funding at a rate that reflects actual cost increases tied to inflation and that encourages improvement.
- Supporting development of rigorous content standards for K-12 schools with a focus on Iowa core curriculum to establish uniform requirements for all schools.
The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce supports:
- Education - Supporting the Fairfield Community School District and Indian Hills Community College regional Career Academy to provide skills and education relevant to job opportunities for area high school students.
- Economic Development - Enhancing local efforts to assist and enable entrepreneurial development, including business incubator support and development and collaboration with the Fairfield Economic Development Association, Fairfield Entrepreneurs Association, City of Fairfield, Jefferson County and other groups.
- Economic Development - Strengthening city and county economic development incentives for new and expanding businesses.
- Business Climate - Reviewing all city / county ordinances, rules and regulations to assure they do not inhibit businesses from expanding or locating in Jefferson County.
- Business Climate - Working with the City of Fairfield and Jefferson County to establish comprehensive zoning for the two mile extraterritorial zone around the city of Fairfield to assure the orderly and efficient growth of the City of Fairfield.
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