Grow Minnesota! events help businesses prepare for the economic recovery. Sharing their perspectives on how the recession has changed the job market were (from left) Simon Foster of SpencerStuart, Minneapolis; Sue Metcalf of Ecolab, St. Paul; and Jan Erickson of Medtronic, Inc., Fridley. Dee Schutte, executive director of the Litchfield Chamber of Commerce, visits with House Minority Leader Kurt Zellers at the Session Priorities event. Governor Tim Pawlenty congratulates John M. Rivisto, president and CEO of Wells Concrete Company, on its new facility in Sartell. The plant has created 50 jobs in central Minnesota and will add another 100 jobs over the next five years. Minnesota legislative leaders share their priorities at the Minnesota Chamber’s annual Session Priorities event: (from left) House Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, moderator Tom Hauser of KSTP-TV Eyewitness News; Senate Minority Leader David Senjem; Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller. Governor Tim Pawlenty addresses nearly 1,600 business leaders and policy-makers at the Minnesota Chamber’s annual Session Priorities event, the largest legislative gathering of its kind. Michele Engdahl with Thomson Reuters, Eagan, receives an up-close look at a hog-producing facility – Baarsch Farms-Next Generation Pork, Inc. near Austin – as part of Leadership Minnesota. The Minnesota Chamber program is an exclusive look at the state’s changing economy and the issues that will shape its future.

  1. INSIDERS' ISSUE
    BREAKFAST
  2. COBRA SUBSIDIES
    EXTENDED
  3. GROW MINNESOTA!
    RECOVERY SERIES
  4. CHAMBER
    WEBINAR SERIES
 

INSIDERS' ISSUE BREAKFAST:
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Join us for an insider view and access to key policy-makers on the business community’s priority issues. The Insiders’ Issue Series provides timely, informative discussions on the major issues at the Legislature.

Economic development is the focus of the March 18 breakfast. It is being conducted in conjunction with the “Grow Minnesota!: Get Ready to Grow” session on “Growing Minnesota through Legislative Advocacy at the Capitol. The event is from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. at The Saint Paul Hotel, 350 Market Street.

March 18  – Economic Development
Sponsored by: Boulay, Heutmaker, Zibell & Co., Delta Air Lines, L & M Radiator, Minnesota Power, Minnesota Vikings, Football, LLC, Rosen’s Diversified, Inc.

The Minnesota Chamber supports policies that improve the environment for all businesses; aiding specific sectors or individual businesses should be a secondary consideration. In varying degrees, state policy can assist in five areas: streamline the state’s permitting systems; offer an income tax credit for individuals investing in new Minnesota businesses; encourage development of research partnerships among the public and nonprofit research organizations and Minnesota businesses, especially those that will facilitate commercialization of their results; ensure that the state’s infrastructure is developing rapidly enough to support the changing and growing economy; provide an adequate workforce pool by closing the achievement gap and making workforce development centers more responsive to the changing economy.

Learn what nearly 800 Minnesota businesses through Grow Minnesota! visits say the Governor and Legislature should – or should not – do to spur the growth and development of Minnesota’s economy. Hear legislators react to their opinions.

Panelists:
Representative Laura Brod, R- New Prague
Commissioner Dan McElroy, Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development
Senator Kathy Saltzman, DFL-Woodbury
Scott Marquardt, senior program officer, Southwest Initiative Foundation, current President of Economic Development Association of Minnesota

April 16 – Spending Reform
Sponsored by: Deloitte & Touche LLP

The Minnesota Chamber will advance spending reform that will focus on three components: Change the way the state sets its budgets to avoid overcommitting state resources and to prioritize spending; deliver government services at a lower cost per unit while maintaining or improving service effectiveness; reduce the overhead expenses of government, including recommendations on public employee benefits and compensation.

May 19 – Legislative Session Wrap-up
Sponsored by: Politics in Minnesota/Capitol Report
SPECIAL TIME: 3:30 p.m. followed by a 4:30 p.m. reception.

Minnesota Chamber staff will evaluate how business fared in the 2010 session and offer an early preview of 2011.

REGISTER NOW!
Each session is $30 for members, $50 for nonmembers. To register, go to www.mnchamber.com. For questions, contact Lisa Engdahl at (651) 292-4699, (800) 821-2230 or lengdahl@mnchamber.com.

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