Policy Positions from the Amherst Chamber of Commerce

March 25, 2010-Chamber Letter to Congressman Higgins in support of Kaleida Health's appropriation request to purchase a di vinci robot for cardiothoracic surgery on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

March 10, 2010-Chamber letter to Assembly Member Sheldon Silver, opposing legislation that would direct the Public Service Commission to impose burdensome new requirements when the Commission reviews a merger or acquisition by a telephone corporation.

March 10, 2010-Chamber letter in supoprt of Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital's appropriation request for a new and permanent magnetic resonace imaging (MRI) machine.

February 18, 2010-Chamber letter to Governor David Paterson in opposition to Gross Receipts Tax (GRT Tax).

May 21, 2008-Chamber Letter supporting Governor David Paterson’s plan to unify the Empire State Development Corporation.

September 21, 2007-Chamber Memorandum in opposition  to the Propposed Local Laws: Freshwater Wetlands and Drainage Law and Adequate Public Facilities Law.

August 20, 2007-Memorandum in opposition to Wetlands Proposal.

July 24, 2007-A White Paper for Regional Economic Development to the Honorable Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York State prepared by the Amherst Chamber of Commerce.

February 27, 2007-Chamber position statement in conintued support of Town of Amherst's comprehensive Master Plan.