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Founded
  
February 1, 2011

Focus
  
Business advocacy

Type
  
Advocacy group

Location
  
Sacramento, CA

Region Business

Area served
  
Sacramento region industry

Method
  
Political lobbying, Public relations

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.

Contents

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 (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).

    • 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).

    • 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.

    Current & past leadership

    Info from official website.

  • 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)

    • Affiliate organizations

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

    • References

    Region Business Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA