Region Business

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Region Business is a business-oriented advocacy association in the greater Sacramento region. The organization is a coalition of trade associations (Region Builders, Region Restaurants, Region Technology) under the umbrella of Region Business.

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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.

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Policy Positions taken

• Supported the Sacramento City Downtown Arena.
• Opposed a proposed $15 minimum wage in Sacramento City (Region Restaurants, Region Builders).
• Supporting zero-percent loans for new restaurants (Region Restaurants).
• Supported one-day building permit program called Permit Simplicity (Region Builders).
• Opposed proposed soda tax in the City of Davis (Region Restaurants).
• Supporting Downtown Soccer Stadium project (Region Business).
• Supported bidding preferences on public projects for local contractors (Region Builders).
• Supported creation of clean energy property investment (Region Builders).
• Supported approval of Cordova Hills development project (Region Builders).
• Supported the repeal of the Sacramento City Big Box "Superstore" Ordinance (Region Builders).
• Opposed efforts by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to remove local control on development project decisions (Region Builders).

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Electoral activities

• Supporting Darrell Steinberg for Mayor of Sacramento City (2016)
• Supported Gary Davis for Mayor of Elk Grove (2012)
• Opposed Loomis Mayor Sandra Calvert's re-election (2014).
• Opposed Measure M & O in El Dorado County (2014).

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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 (the most in California State History) to successfully block STOP measure from the ballot, and ran the DowntownArena.org and The4000 arena coalitions.

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Current & past leadership

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• David Temblador - Board President - 2015-2016
• 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 (Smiling Assassin) - Founder, Chief Executive Officer (2011-Present)

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Affiliate organizations

• Region Builders
• Region Technology
• Region Restaurants
• the Economic Growth Institute

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia