Status Report

Every year, the Amherst Chamber of Commerce's Public Affairs Council develops and publishes a Legislative Agenda and distributes it at our Annual Luncheon in January. The Legislative Agenda outlines various issues on all levels of government that the Amherst Chamber feels is important to the business community. The agenda not only gives a background of the issue but also gives the Chamber's position on each.

In 2011, the Chamber began distributing a quarterly "Status Report" electronically to our members to give updates on the movement of some of the issues outlined in the Legislative Agenda.

Second Quarter

• UB 2020

• Property Tax Cap
• New York Power Authority & Energy
• Reverse Vending Machines (RVMs)
• Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
• Northtown Sewer District- This matter will no longer be pursued by the Chamber. The cost savings were minimal & there are other, more substantive, consolidation initiatives to consider.

Third Quarter

• UB2020
• Property Tax Cap
• Reverse Vending Machines
• Marcellus Shale
• Town of Amherst Redevelopment

For more information on any of these issues, contact the Amherst Chamber's Director of Advocacy & Communications Caitlin Campbell at 632-6905 or ccampbell@amherst.org