Region Business
Region Business is a business-oriented advocacy association in the greater Sacramento region. The organization is a coalition of trade associations under the umbrella of Region Business.
History
Region Business was founded in 2011 as Region Builders, a political action committee of the Sacramento Regional Builders Exchange. The organization became a separate trade association in 2012. In 2015, the organization re-branded from a building industry trade association to a business advocacy association.Policy Positions taken
- Supported the Sacramento City Downtown Arena.
- Opposed a proposed $15 minimum wage in Sacramento City.
- Supporting zero-percent loans for new restaurants.
- Supported one-day building permit program called Permit Simplicity.
- Opposed proposed soda tax in the City of Davis.
- Supporting Downtown Soccer Stadium project.
- Supported bidding preferences on public projects for local contractors.
- Supported creation of clean energy property investment.
- Supported approval of Cordova Hills development project.
- Supported the repeal of the Sacramento City Big Box "Superstore" Ordinance.
- Opposed efforts by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to remove local control on development project decisions.
Electoral activities
- Supported Garrett Gatewood for Rancho Cordova City Council
- Supported Darrell Steinberg for Mayor of Sacramento City
- Supported Gary Davis for Mayor of Elk Grove
- Opposed Loomis Mayor Sandra Calvert's re-election.
- Opposed Measure M & O in El Dorado County.
Sacramento City Downtown Arena
Spearheaded the pro-arena effort for the Golden 1 Center. Filed the FPPC complaint that uncovered Chris Hansen as secret funder for STOP anti-arena campaign, collected 15,000 petition withdrawals to successfully block STOP measure from the ballot, and ran the DowntownArena.org and The4000 arena coalitions.Current & past leadership
Info from official website.- Chet Fite - Board President - 2018-2020
- David Temblador - Board President - 2015–2017
- Ron Brown - Board President - 2014
- Mike Kimmel - Board President - 2013
- Bill Porter - Founder, Board President - 2011–2012
- Scott Maxwell, Founder - 2011
- Tim Fry, Founder - 2011
- Joshua Wood - Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Affiliate organizations
- Region Builders
- Region Technology
- Region Restaurants
- the Economic Growth Institute