August 2013

Business Comments
Leadership Today!
Fairfield-Suisun and Vacaville Chamber merge programs
CHAIRMANS CIRCLE
Titanium:

he Fairfield-Suisun and Vacaville Chambers of Commerces are excited to announce the merging of their two leadership programs. This new regional program is currently recruiting and will begin the Class of 2014 this September. Leadership Vacaville had been a leadership training program offering by the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce since the inaugural Class of 2007.The intent of this program was to give civic-minded citizens a deeper understanding of the building blocks of our community. In August of 2012, the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce announced the contracting of Sherry McKillop, the founder and Chief Compass Holder at Follow Your Compass, a regional company specializing in team and leadership development to facilitate our leadership program. Ms. McKillop implemented her nationally recognized, awardwinning community leadership program through the Vacaville Chambers Leadership Vacaville Class of 2013. Leadership Today is now a regional program offered through both Chambers and is designed to develop knowledgeable, skilled,

Platinum:

KUIC 95.3 The Reporter Newspaper Genentech (A Member of the Roche Group) Sutter Regional Medical Foundation

Gold:

A.G. Spanos Companies First Northern Bank Ford Lincoln Fairfield McDonalds Restaurants Wells Fargo Banks Western Health Advantage

Silver:

Camping World Hampton Inn & Suites Potrero Hills Landfill Raleys Ray Morgan Co. Solano Irrigation District Standard Pacific New Homes Vacaville Magazine VITUS Wal-Mart

committed, and active community leaders. Participants come together from diverse backgrounds, experience, and perspectives.They will meet monthly to expand core business and community leaderships competencies while

learning about themselves, each other, their communities, and how to positively impact their society. Graduates form lasting connections with each other, create valuable links to civic and business leaders and join an elite group of individuals within the central Solano County region. Our two chambers were committed to do more joint events together said Mark Creffield the President/CEO of the Vacaville Chamber.Additionally he said, Merging our two leadership programs is a wonderful opportunity for us to recognize we share many things on a regional level. Debi Tavey the President CEO of the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber also commented,We are looking forward to collaborating with the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce on cultivating leaders in our communities. Leadership Today participants

will receive their instruction on essential leadership competencies in the following categories: Understanding Leadership, Creating Effective Teams, Managing Conflict, Making Group Decisions, Building Communities Through Collaboration, Leading Community Change, Effective Communication/Conducting Successful Meetings, Understanding Financial Accountability, and Charting Your Leadership Path. The deadline to sign-up for this years class is August 15th. For more information on the Leadership Today program to include cost and requirements, please contact the Vacaville Chamber at 707-448-6424.You can also visit our website www.vacavillechamber.com and click on the Leadership Today link to download the brochure and application.

Bronze:

AAA Northern California Aarons Automotive Ad Special Ts Bay Area Electronic Medical Billing Cache Creek Casino Resort Cancer Treatment Center of Vacaville Coldwell Banker Kappel Gateway Realty Costco Wholesale Courtside Cottages of Vacaville International House of Pancakes Janssen M&G Duravent, Inc. Mariani Packing Co., Inc. Marys Pizza Shack Mercedes of Fairfield Momentum Auto Group Nationwide Insurance Pacific Gas & Electric Paramount House Senior Living Phillippi Engineering Pretty Potties RAS Solano Radiation Oncology Center Solano Pallet Company State Compensation Insurance Fund Suihkonen CPAs & Consultants Toyota Vacaville Transpac US Bank Vacaville Premium Outlets Vacaville Residence Inn

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2012-13 OFFICERS EXECUTIVE BOARD

Vacaville Chamber of Commerce Business Comments

What We Do For You

e have all heard the line what have you done for me lately? No doubt, we ask ourselves this question when making decisions about investing our time and money. This month I plan to answer that question for you about your Vacaville Chamber of Commerce. You may have read our mission: to continually improve the economic prosperity of the business community by providing leadership, education, and resources.What, specifically, does this mean for you, and what are we worthy of your investment? Leadership: We focus on creating a healthy business environment by serving as your advocate to all levels of government.We push for business-friendly public policy, support/endorse issues with local impact and work closely

Katheryn Tuberty Chairperson Farmers Insurance Tracy Mitchell Chair Elect TradeMark Advertising Dilenna Harris Immediate Past Chair Kaiser Permanente Debbie Egidio Treasurer DTS Egidio Albert Sullivan Vice Chair Client/Members ADValue CPA Services Louie DeBartolo Vice Chair Education DeBartolo & Co Fine Jewelers Joanie Erickson Vice Chair Business Issues Associate Member
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with Travis AFB, monitoring developments at the base that affect our community.We also provide opportunities for your business to take a leadership role by representing us at local events as a Chamber Ambassador or by sending an employee through our Leadership class, which develops participants into knowledgeable and skilled community leaders. Similarly, we recognize and encourage leadership in local youth through our GOTCHA program, which rewards middle and high school students for personal and academic achievements, community service and random acts of kindness. Education: Our monthly Business Issues Educational Forum sheds light on proposed city, county and state issues which could affect our business community.We secure the

politicians, government officials and business leaders behind the proposed actions to speak to our members directly and answer By Katheryn questions at Tuberty, Chair of this event.We the Board offer expertled workshops on timely matters like new media, and host candidate roundtable discussions during local elections.We also meet with new and prospective businesses looking to relocate or open an office in Vacaville to help them understand our business climate and why they should choose Vacaville. Our educational opportunities are constantly expanding

so check the calendar regularly at www.vacavillechamber.com Resources: Our resources are numerous:We are the place to call to help you solve problems and get answers.Your member benefits also include referrals to your business when we receive inquiries relating to your business category, an online directory listing and web page to broadcast your business specials and events to the community, email and special event advertising, monthly networking mixers and hosting opportunities, a conference room and so much more. Clearly this answers the question whats in it for me? For a full list of member benefits or to learn more about how you can get involved, please contact us. We want you to make the most out of your investment. www.vacavillechamber.com 707-448-6424.

Christopher Donhost Bryan-Braker Funeral Home Mike Fortney Placer Title Pat Hannon Janssen Corporation Dallas Jackson Jackson Medical Supply Barry Nelson Travis Credit Union Scott Pardini Recology Vacaville Solano Scott Reynolds Gaw Van Male Sally Schulz The Reporter
STAFF & CONTRACTORS

Our New Fiscal Year Begins!

Mark Creffield President/CEO mark@vacavillechamber.com Julie Sabbagh Community Relations Director Julie@vacavillechamber.com Timothy Ridosh Membership Development Director Tim@vacavillechamber.com Sherry McKillop Leadership Vacaville Director Darlene Chikeles Bookkeeper

t our July board of directors meeting, Katheryn Tuberty with Farmers Insurance was officially sworn in as our new Chairperson of the Board. Additionally, Scott Pardini with Recology, Barry Nelson with Travis Credit Union, and Mike Fortney with Placer Title Company took the oath to begin serving their three-year terms. Unfortunately Christopher Donhost with Bryan-Braker Funeral Home resigned his director position as he was taking another job out of the area. Stay tuned for who the Vacaville Chamber will announce to take his spot on our board of directors. I wanted to take a moment to thank the four (4) out-going directors who recently left our board. Carol Landry with First Northern Bank, Ed Forrest Associate Member, and Ernie Smith with Smith Business Interiors all served two (2) threeyear terms on our board. All three (3) were executive committee members with both Carol and Ed serving a year as our Chair of the Board. Laura Petty with Petty and Warshawsky Attorneys at Law served for about two years on our board. Laura chose not to serve another three-year term because of her many other commitments in our -community. Laura was selected to serve on our board primarily because of her

involvement as a member of our Chamber and had recently graduated from our leadership program.Thank you again to Carol, Ed, Ernie, and Laura. At our June 4th board retreat, current and new directors go together and were briefed on By Mark Creffield various trends in the President/CEO Chamber industry. Your board of directors got down to business and began a strategic planning process to develop goals for the upcoming year. Once again based on the discussion criteria of Our Chamber Needs to or Should do What?With over 20 suggestions made, each director casted their vote and this list were narrowed down to the top three ideas. Last month our chair of the board mentioned these three priorities that came out of our annual board planning retreat. 1. Re-start countywide legislative advocacy group. The current legislative advocacy group has been dormant for many

months. The Vacaville Chamber wants to reconvene all Solano County Chambers and move this process forward. 2. Ombudsman or contact person at the Chamber to help with individuals who look to start a business in Vacaville. The Chamber will work with Solano County, the City of Vacaville, and the Small Business Development Center to create a more centralized process for business start-ups and development. 3. Better and more consistent at delivering our successes to Chamber members and the Community. Improving our scores from the recent membership survey. Looking to bridge the scoring gap in how our members rated: How importance is it for the Vacaville Chamber? in a specific area compared to How well do you think the Chamber performs? in the same specific area. Over the course of the next fiscal year you will begin to see the implementation and learn more about our three (3) retreat goals. The Vacaville Chamber is very excited for fiscal year 2013/14. Stay up to date on everything that is going on by visiting our website www.vacavillechamber.com.

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EVENTS

1. Joint-Mixer with the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce hosted by NorthBay Healthcare, 4500 Business Center Drive, Fairfield (Top left and right) 2. Ribbon Cutting for Debi Johnson with State Farm Insurance, 438 Main Street, Vacaville (Middle left) 3. Ribbon Cutting for WalMart Neighborhood Market, 941 Alamo Drive, Vacaville (Bottom left) 4. Ribbon Cutting for 21st Century Learning Academy, 1671 East Monte Vista Avenue, Suite N-106, Vacaville (Bottom right)

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Golfers Take Note: The 24th Annual Cowtown Classic is Coming Up

ts that time again for the most popular golf tournament of the year, the Vacaville Chamber of Commerces 24th Annual Cowtown Classis.This years event will be held at Green Tree Golf Club in Vacaville on Friday, September 6th with a 10:00 a.m. check-in and a 12:00 noon shotgun start.The price is $150 per golfer.This price includes your green fees, cart fee, barbecue lunch, barbecue dinner, interactive holes, tee prize bag, contests throughout the day, and HOSTED beer, water and soda ALL DAY! This much-anticipated Cowtown Classic Golf Tournament is right around the corner. This years event celebrates 24 years of

offering not only a great networking opportunity, but an opportunity to promote the community and bring the business community together for a day of fun in the sun. We have already opened the signups for this years golf tournament. If you would like to play, sponsor, or donate to either the silent auction or raffle, please give the Chamber a call at 448-6424 and we will email you the Cowtown Classic registration and sponsorship forms.These forms are also available on our website at www.vacavillechamber.com. This year the Chamber is offering an early bird discount when you

purchase a Foursome of golfers. Book your complete Foursome prior to July 31st for only $500, and save your Foursome $100 dollars. This discount applies to complete foursomes only. The Chamber is offering some various levels of sponsorships and we hope you will consider taking advantage of these wonderful packages. If you are not a player but would like to be involved, you can consider becoming one of our Interactive Hole Sponsors.This sponsorship allows your business to set up a table or company tent at a tee box with the opportunity to work the hole by promoting your business. If you cannot

make it out to the golf course, you can also have your business represented by being a Tee Sign Sponsor. There are many good reasons why you should support the Cowtown Classic as this is the biggest fundraiser for the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce. It provides revenue to ensure the Chamber has the resources to, in turn, provide its members and the business community with the educational tools to thrive. Dont wait! Call the Chamber today at (707) 448-6424 to secure your spot at the 24th Annual Vacaville Chamber of Commerce Cowtown Classic golf tournament.

Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy by Charles Eason, Director of the Solano College Small Business Development Center

fter ten years as the Director of the Solano College Small Business Development Center (SBDC), I recently have taken on a new statewide leadership position as the Small Business Sector Navigator for the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program where I will be coordinating small business programs at 112 community colleges across the state.

This position is part of a new framework called Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy that the Chancellors Office is rolling out this year. In addition to the Small Business Sector, there will be navigators supporting sectors in global trade and logistics, advanced manufacturing, advanced transportation and renewables, health, life sciences/biotech, energy, agriculture, information and communications technologies, and retail/hospitality/tourism.These

programs are supported by several streams of state and federal funds, including Governors Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative (SB70), Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, and Proposition 98 dollars for Apprenticeship, Economic & Workforce Development (SB1402), and Career Technical Education (SB1070). In my new role as the statewide Small Business Sector Navigator, I will be working

with the Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) across the state including here in Solano and the Business Entrepreneurship Centers (BECs) which were previously funded under the Economic and Workforce Development Program.The new Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy will have a regional focus. I will be working with ten Deputy Small Business Sector Navigators in ten regions across the state to develop programs on a regional basis.

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MEETINGS & EVENTS FOR AUGUST 2013 & SEPTEMBER 2013

August
August 1 After-Hours Business Mixer hosted by TradeMark Advertising & State Farm Insurance, 438 Main Street, Vacaville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5:30 7:00 p.m. August 8 Ambassador Committee Meeting at the Hampton Inn & Suites, 800 Mason Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 9:00 a.m. August 9 Business Issues Educational Forum, Travis Credit Union Community Room, 1 Travis Way, Vacaville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 10:00 a.m. August 20 Wake-Up Vacaville hosted by Solano Coin, Gold & Silver, 767 E. Monte Vista Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy

Solano College will be hosting the new Small Business Sector Navigator grant, so I will continue be part of Solano College and physically will just be moving to an office upstairs from the SBDC. Prior to coming to the Solano College SBDC ten years ago, I held a similar statewide leadership role as the Associate Director of ED>Net which was the previous name for the Chancellors Office Economic and Workforce Development Program. While I will miss working directly with business owners here in Solano, I am excited about to work on a statewide level again to strengthen the small business sector here in California which is so vital to our economy. Charles Rieger is stepping in as the Interim Director of the Solano College Small Business Development Center (SBDC).To reach the new Charles and the SBDC, you can call (707) 864-3382 or visit www.solanosbdc.org.

September
September 5 After-Hours Business Mixer hosted by Merrill Gardens, 799 Yellowstone Drive, Vacaville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:30 7:00 p.m. September 12 Ambassador Committee meeting at the Hampton Inn & Suites, 800 Mason Street, Vacaville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. September 17 Wake-Up Vacaville hosted by the Cancer Treatment Center of Vacaville, 1360 Burton Drive, Suite 170 Vacaville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

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NEW/REJOINED MEMBERS FOR JUNE 2013

Shredders Federation Maurice Jefferson 1110 Marshall Road Ste. C-2 Vacaville, CA 95687 707-448-4951 mjefferson67@sbcglobal.net www.shreddersfederation.com Mike Rose's Auto Body Sal Contreras & Darrin Maltbie 885 Beck Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 707-429-1739 Fairfield@mikesautobody.com www.mikesautobody.com Ford Lincoln FairfieldGold Level Sponsor Heather Vladislavich Customer Relations Manager 3050 Auto Mall Court Fairfield, CA 94534 707-421-3300 ext.3384 heathervladislavich@fordfairfield.com www.fordfairfield.com Sequoia Senior Solutions Jessie Shreve 1372 McDowell Blvd. Petaluma, CA 94954 707-419-7299Office 707-775-1365Cell Jessie.Shreve@sequoiaseniorsolutions.com www.SequoiaSeniorSolutions.com In-Shape Health Clubs Alamo 894 Alamo Drive Vacaville, CA 95688 707-455-5026 http://www.inshapeclubs.com

AMBASSADOR OF THE MONTH

Chase Goodson

work for the Landmark Image, Inc. and VacavillePrintCenter.com. Our family has owned the business for 3 generations and moved here to Vacaville in 1991. I am responsible for the B2B print division which includes custom print projects, blue print

scanning and promotional products. I am engaged to be married Sept 1, 2013 to a beautiful woman named Tara Sharif.We both graduated Vaca High 2005 & 2006 respectively.We are planning on residing and starting a family here in Vacaville, a great place to live.