{"id":23396,"date":"2014-05-28T13:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:49:56","slug":"swan-valley-chamber-of-commerce-minutes-may-13-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2014\/05\/28\/swan-valley-chamber-of-commerce-minutes-may-13-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Valley Chamber of Commerce Minutes – May 13, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Submitted for publication by the Swan Valley Chamber of Commerce |<\/p>\n

<\/br>The Swan Valley Chamber of Commerce held a General Membership Meeting on May, 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
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Present: Bev Potten, Heather Nielsen, Naomi Neufeld, Jodi Willis, Stacy Grindle, Don Declercq, Jack Dyck, Carolyn Baldwin, Shawna Klekta, Kevin Neely, Alex Haluschuk.<\/p>\n

Delegations:
\nRCMP Staff Sargent Cliff McKay
\nBlaine Campbell-Swan Valley Credit Union<\/p>\n

1. Agenda
\nAdditions were made to the agenda
\nNaomi Neufeld\/ Agenda be adopted as presented
\nDon Declercq\/ CARRIED<\/p>\n

2. Minutes of March 11, 2014 General Membership Meeting
\nStacy Grindle\/ Minutes adopted as presented.
\nBev Potten\/ CARRIED<\/p>\n

3. Business Arising from the Minutes
\nBusiness Tax
\nHeather reported that she has been in contact with Lance Jacobson. He will be getting back to her about setting up a meeting.<\/p>\n

Heather reported on the Swan Valley Chamber AGM. Kevin Neely acted as MC. Chuck Davidson, President of the Mb Chamber of Commerce was our guest speaker.<\/p>\n

4. Delegation
\nRCMP Cliff McKay \u201cWalking the Beat\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to some unpleasant loitering and vandalism instances down-town in the middle of the day the RCMP had been approached to see if they would make a presence by walking down the streets.<\/p>\n

Cliff reported that shortage of RCMP manpower prevents this from happening.<\/p>\n

Many of the issues dealt with by the RCMP are Mental Health related which takes up a lot of their time and resources.<\/p>\n

He reported that implementing a no loitering bylaw will help with some of the issues.<\/p>\n

He reported that over the past weekend the RCMP had to transport two inmates to Thompson to a Health Care Facility. This takes away from a constable being in Swan River during this transport.<\/p>\n

Constable McKay reported that Swan River detachment is losing a full-time provincially funded RCMP Officer. The detachment is also facing a couple of vacant positions.<\/p>\n

He was questioned on whether letters to the Minister of Justice would help in reversing the decision to cut one constable position.<\/p>\n

The closing of Swan River\u2019s Safe House was discussed and if the opening of another would aid in the situation?<\/p>\n

A suggestion of Introducing the COPP program again was discussed but concern was shown on whether there would be enough volunteers to run the program.
\nHeather thanked Cliff for his presentation.<\/p>\n

Blaine Campbell, Swan Valley Credit Union \u201cSmall Business Financing\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blaine started his presentation by giving a bit of history on the Swan Valley Credit Union. The Swan Valley Credit Union started in 1953 with 12 members. They now have 9000+ members.. They are very community driven. In 2013 they contributed $71,000 in sponsorship.<\/p>\n

Blaine reported that when processing a loan the 5 c\u2019s are considered:
\n1. Capacity- cash flow
\n2. Collateral- security
\n3. Character-borrowers reputation
\n4. Capital- net worth
\n5. Conditions- terms of credit<\/p>\n

Management ability and experience is also a major factor.
\n99% of applications are approved in house.
\nIf SVCU is unable to accommodate they will give referrals.
\nHeather thanked Blaine for his presentation.<\/p>\n

5. First Impression
\nHeather had contacted Lee Friesen Alford to see if she would coordinate the program but Lee has declined. Someone is needed to spearhead but due to the deadline we will have to pass this time.<\/p>\n

6. UCN
\nHeather attended the Strategic Planning for UCN
\nSome topics discussed were:
\na. Infrastructure and Housing
\nb. Larger Campus
\nc. Dual Credits<\/p>\n

7. Mb Chamber AGM in Dauphin
\nHeather attended on behalf of the Chamber. She felt it was very beneficial. Some of the projects that various Chambers have done are:<\/p>\n

Community Sale \u2013 Black Friday, big discounts, passport stamped
\n12@12 \u2013 invite 12 members for lunch \u2013 what\u2019s happening in your business and what can we do to help?
\nBusiness after 5
\nNewspaper member profile \u2013 once a month \u2013 middle section $200 cost, $50 ads, profile a business, advertise events
\nWomen in Business Lunch and Learn \u2013 March Int\u2019l woman\u2019s day held an ungala
\nJoint luncheon with Rotary
\nWorking groups \u2013 specific task and timeline
\nBusiness Excellence awards
\nJoint 3m\u2019s with other organizations
\nDragon\u2019s Den with business students
\nWhat\u2019s your bold idea \u2013 ask the public
\nChamber U \u2013 member talks \u2013 lunch and learn
\nTown Counsellor pairings for open discussion<\/p>\n

8. MAFRI Partners in Growth
\nMAFRI will match dollars on projects. Members were asked if there was a project that they would like to see happen. Unfortunately due to a fast approaching deadline the Chamber will review a project for next year. Topic will be re-introduced in January to ensure appropriate amount of time to discuss<\/p>\n

9. Committee Reports<\/p>\n

a. Membership
\n2014 telephone directories are out. Data base has merged the non-members with current members to keep a more detail record.<\/p>\n

b. Events
\nBev Potten reported that Valley In the Mountain Group will put together another Tourism Guide for next year.<\/p>\n

Their website is partnering with Valley Biz.<\/p>\n

Thompson Trade Show
\nSix delegates attended and the foot traffic through the trade show was extremely busy. There were lots of young families looking to relocate. A suggestion was made to get a large map to pinpoint Swan River.<\/p>\n

It was suggested to take in Flin Flon Trade Show next year-maybe rotate the two.<\/p>\n

c. Retail
\nDon Declercq reported that retail had a meeting and decided to have Midnight Madness a week earlier than last year. Decided on November 22nd.Event Name to be determined. Suggestion options were Valley Madness, Moonlight Madness, Midnight Madness.<\/p>\n

Discussion in regards to having the Tree Lighting and sleigh rides, music etc.<\/p>\n

Bev reported that the Valley Stage players were having their play that weekend so a bit of a conflict. Discussion on whether the date should be changed. Bev will talk to Valley Stage Players to see if they can change or maybe the promotion could be changed to the week before.<\/p>\n

Don also reported that they were going to introduce the coupon page again but emphasized that the coupon had to be a good deal.<\/p>\n

d. Executive
\nExecutive Assistant
\nJodi reported that they are still recruiting. Will make their final decision soon.<\/p>\n

e. Economic Development
\nHeather reported that Prairie Mountain Health will be holding their Stake Holders Meeting on June 24th.<\/p>\n

10. Open Forum
\na. The question was asked on whether a Customer Service Training Program could be implemented. An ongoing program would be more desirable.
\nJack Dyck will look into.<\/p>\n

a. The Safe House issue was re-introduced.
\nJack Dyck will inquire on what is being done.<\/p>\n

A discussion took place on whether there was anything we could do about the constable position being cut. Suggestions were made to write letters to the Minister of Justice and publish an article in the Star & Times to make public awareness. Jack Dyck will follow up.<\/p>\n

Heather Nielsen\/ That we adjourn.<\/p>\n

Next General Meeting July 8, 2014 at 7:00 P.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted for publication by the Swan Valley Chamber of Commerce | The Swan Valley Chamber of Commerce held a General Membership Meeting on May, 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm. Present: Bev Potten, Heather Nielsen, Naomi Neufeld, Jodi Willis, Stacy Grindle, Don Declercq, Jack Dyck, Carolyn Baldwin, Shawna Klekta, Kevin Neely, Alex Haluschuk. Delegations: RCMP Staff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-23396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}