Driving Our Economy Forward: Catoosa Chamber
Tonight we are learning more about the Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce.
In tonight’s Driving Our Economy Forward we learn how many business leaders met to talk about the current state of the economy in Georgia and connect for the future.
“So today is our what we call the networking at lunch for the Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce. Um, and this is a great… we have five of these a year. And it’s a great time for businesses, nonprofit leaders. Uh quite frankly any person in the community we we really don’t keep it just for our members,” said Amy Jackson, President and CEO of Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce.
“How are you?”
” It’s a great time for to put all those people in one room, to talk about our community and things that you know challenges um… successes, um just a time for people to talk to to each other about what they might need in the community. Uh, it’s a great connection point and that’s that’s our tagline Catoosa connects and the Chamber luncheons are a great time for that,” said Jackson.
“The biggest thing is being able to uh, help other people. Because the more you help other people the more it comes back to you. And that’s really where I get most of my satisfaction is helping other small business owners be successful,” said Mike Key, Director of Sales for the Canopy at Boynton Ridge.
“How many of you have a Workforce Development issue right now in your company?”
“The information that Chris will provide are just great data and demographics about what Georgia as a whole and specifically Northwest Georgia, uh some you know some of our successes again and and the things that um that we can work together to build a better Georgia for our citizens,” said Jackson.
“We are on a Statewide tour this year, going around talking about workforce development, infrastructure, competitiveness and most importantly listening to business and elected leaders educational leaders around the state. Very important me meeting in North Georgia this is our fifth term time up in North Georgia to make sure we’re representing business leaders and their needs in this part of the state. But I think it’s important to be in the room with men and women to have them gather to have them talk to each other to spur the conversations. Uh I think that’s where we get the best comments and follow up is afterwards when people say, this is an issue for our region. Plus you want to see it, you want to be in the community. It’s not enough just to to call it in, that’s the easy part to do. And so we are all over the state of Georgia every single day. We’re a relationship organization, our local chambers here Amy’s chamber it’s a relationship organization. And you don’t have really good relationships over over a long distance. Businesses like our workforce they like our culture, they like our business climates. Uh they love the amount of money that we invest in our infrastructure. And so we’re proud and the fact that North Georgia in particularly and right over the line here in Tennessee, that we’ve got the bulk of that. I think it really speaks volumes to the business climate this part of the state and most importantly, and I think we ignore this a lot. Is the work ethic of the men and women that live in this part of of the world, they’re not scared to get up and go to work and do the hard work and be Innovative uh and make a difference,” said Chris Clark, President and CEO or Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
