June Business Comments

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Titanium:

June 2014

CHAIRMANS CIRCLE

Business Comments

Platinum:KUIC 95.3The Reporter NewspaperGenentech (A Member of the Roche Group)

Gold: A.G.Spanos CompaniesFirst Northern Bank Ford Lincoln FairfieldGaw Van Male,Attorneys at Law

McDonalds RestaurantsSutter Health (SSMC/SRMF)Wells Fargo BanksWestern Health Advantage

Silver:Cornerstone Assisted LivingHampton Inn & SuitesPotrero Hills LandfillRay Morgan Co.Solano Irrigation DistrictStandard Pacific Homes

Vacaville Magazine VITUS WineWal-MartWal-Mart Neighborhood Market (Alamo)Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market(Nut Tree Road)

Bronze: AAA Northern California Aarons Automotive Ad Special TsBay Area Electronic Medical BillingCache Creek Casino ResortCancer Treatment Center of VacavilleColdwell Banker Kappel Gateway RealtyCompassionate Care DentalCostco WholesaleCourtside Cottages of VacavilleDickeys Barbecue PitJanssenM&G Duravent,Inc.Mariani Packing Co., Inc.Marys Pizza Shack Mercedes of FairfieldMomentum Auto GroupPacific Gas & ElectricPhillippi EngineeringPretty PottiesRAS Solano Radiation Oncology CenterRaleysState Compensation Insurance FundSuihkonen CPAs & ConsultantsTheatre DeVilleToyota VacavilleTranspac

Vacaville Premium Outlets

Creekwalk at Andrews Park TOMORROW - Friday, May 30, 2014

Celebrate Vacaville is afree community-wideevent sponsored by the

Vacaville Chamber of Commerce.This event primarily focusses on bringing theChambers business membersand the community together for a day of part business expo, partmusic,and part food for anafternoon of business mixed

with fun!Celebrate Vacaville will have

more than 50 local businessesshowcasing their products andservices! This is your opportunity

learn more about the businessesin our community while enjoyinggreat food,beverages,live musicperformed by Sam Lopez and aspecial performance by the

Vacaville Irish Dancers! This year Celebrate Vacaville is going to beon the Creekwalk at AndrewsPark from 4:30 pm 8:30 pm.This is one event you dont wantto miss! For more informationcontact the Chamber at(707) 448-6424.

Heres a sneak peak at thebusinesses that will be atCelebrate Vacaville:

Bell's Chem Dry, Children'sNurturing Project , Church of Epiphany,Vacaville Community Services,Compassionate CareDental,Connections For Life,Culligan Water,Daily Republic,Dbi Beverage, DeVille Theater,Katheryn Tuberty FarmersInsurance, Ford Lincoln Fairfield,Image Orthodontics,InShape, It

Works!,Kaiser Permanente, KUIC95.3,Lighthouse Hard SurfaceCleaning,Vacaville Moose Lodge,NorthBay Healthcare,Nissan of

Vacaville,Payroll Masters, QuinnCrossing Apartments, Recology,

Round Table Pizza,Rubios,Servpro of Fairfield,SmileBusiness Products,SolanoCommunity College,State FarmInsurance,The Leaven,TheReporter Newspaper,Tutor Doctor, US Bank,Vaca ArtsCouncil,Vacaville Ballet Theater,

Vacaville Opportunity House, Vacaville Police Officers Association,Vacaville PremiumOutlets,Wells Fargo Bank,

Western Health Advantage & World Market!

Reforms work when we work together!Moira McSweeney, Vacaville Teachers Association President

A s the 2013-14 school

year winds down, Idlike to share some greatnews about public

education.If youre not yet heard,

Californias high schoolgraduation rate has risen for thefourth year in a row.The stategraduation rate now exceeds80.2%, the overall graduation rate

is up 1.3% over last yearsnumber, and graduation rates for

African-American and Hispanicstudents climbed even faster than the overall average.

After those numbers werereleased, State Superintendent of Public Education,Tom Torlaksonsaid, "For the first time in our states history, more than 80percent of our students are

graduatinga clear sign of their hard work and the support they receive from their teachers,families, and communities Weare continuing toward our goalof graduating 100 percent of our students with the skills andknowledge they will need tosucceed.

The rise in graduation rates was paired with a decrease in

the high school dropout rate.Overall, the dropout ratedeclined 1.5%,falling even faster for minority students.Thedropout rate for African-

American students slid by 2.2%, while the Hispanic studentdropout rate fell 2.0% from theprior year.

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2 - Thursday, May 29, 2014 Vacaville Chamber of Commerce Business Comments

O ur Hawaiian Themed Annual Dinner on May 3 was a tremendoussuccess! The attendees witnessed the gavel exchangefrom current Chair KatherynTuberty with Farmers Insuranceto Chair-Elect Tracy Mitchell withNissan of Vacaville.The Chamber also introduced three (3) new directors:Brian Honeycutt withKaiser Permanente, LisaRingelman with Cavanagh-Ringelman CPAs, and ColleenStafford with All Size Flooring andCarpet Cleaning. Sadly theChamber board bid farewell tooff-going directors:Pat Hannon

with Janssen,Albert Sullivan with ADValue CPAs, and Dilenna Harris with Kaiser Permanente.

The chambers board of directors will be having their annual planning retreat on June 9to create a new set of strategicaction plans for the 2014/15 fiscal

year.This brings me to recap our goals from our 2013/14 fiscal

year.Public Relations Committee:

Chaired by Barry Nelson withTravis Credit Union, this

committee accomplished our established goals. I am sure many of you have seen our chamber score card that details our totalcommunity involvement.Thisscorecard includes statistics onthe importance of being amember of our Chamber.Beginning in June, you will beginto hear informational commercialsairing on KUIC 95.3 to further our public relations outreach.Thiscommittee will continue to meeton an ad hock basis and willcontinue to look at ways topromote our successes.Countywide Advocacy GroupCommittee:

Chaired by Dan Sharp withSharp Public Affairs, thiscommittee has had six (6) monthsof monthly meetings withrepresentatives from all of theSolano County Chambers of Commerce.This new advocacy group is currently working on our by-laws along with establishingcommittees that will focus on

various areas of interest that our group will take an active role in.Soon the advocacy groups officialname along with mission

statement willbe released.The real work

will then beginin being aneffectivecommunity advocate.Ombudsman Committee:

Chaired by JoanieErickson withSolanoCoalition for

Better Health,this committee hasbeen working very hard and haspartnered with the City of

Vacaville to create a businessresource guide in how to dobusiness in Vacaville.We are very close to completing this guideand look forward to rolling it outin the next few months.Another task is for us to recruit two (2)separate groups Mentor Program and Consultant Program.

The volunteer chamber members who will serve as partof the mentor program will work

with entrepreneurs who will bestarting a new business in

Vacaville.The Chamber mentors will give potential new businessowners advice about navigatingthe process of starting a businessand about connecting to the

Vacaville community.The volunteer chamber

member who will serve as part of the consultation program willprovide 15-minutes of freeconsultation to entrepreneurs

working to start new businessesin Vacaville.New businesses oftenneed a myriad of services to getoff the ground, including banking,legal, accounting,and commercialreal estate services, andeverything in between.

The Vacaville Chamber of Commerce is very excited in theplanning and implementation of these strategic action plans andlook forward to sharing our strategic action plans for 2014/15.

Next month we will have bios onour three (3) newest directorsthat will be featured in our July issue of Business Comments.

By Mark Creffield,President/CEO

Fiscal Year Winding Down How did we do?

A Year in Review

W hen I started thispast year as your Board Chair, I hadthree goals:to grow our financial position, grow our membership and grow our advo-cacy initiatives. I am happy toreport that we have done allthree.

We are in excellent shape for achamber our size,and are cur-rently the largest chamber inSolano County. Our CEO Mark Creffield has done a great jobmanaging your dollars; our income is higher and our expenses are lower than they

were a year ago. We are also growing our mem-

bership.With economic difficul-ties still playing a major role,we

were losing more members than we gained over the past year, butthe numbers are now going in theright direction.With the efforts of our community relations director

Julie Sabbagh and our new Membership DevelopmentDirector Tonya Dretzka, we areadding more members every

month and our gains and lossesare even.We anticipate that our new memberships will outpaceour losses as 2014 continues.

On the advocacy front, wehave continued the work of theBACPAC Committee and weverestarted our Solano County polit-ical advocacy group, the SolanoCounty Alliance of Chambers, a

joint project of the Benicia,Fairfield-Suisun, Dixon,Rio Vista,

Vacaville and Vallejo Chambers of Commerce as well as the Black Chamber, FilAm Chamber, andHispanic Chamber.The group ismeeting monthly and working outits organizational components,bylaws,and the structure for how each chamber will be repre-sented.Dan Sharp is serving asthe facilitator, and we plan to startadvocating during the major elec-tions happening later this year.

These personal goals over-lapped,as they should, with theBoards broader goals:developingthe advocacy group,creating arobust public relations programand implementing an ombudsman

program for new businessestrying to navi-gate the com-plex process of starting up.

Our publicrelationsefforts includespots on KUICradio to buildmembershipand awareness,a one-sheet

snapshot of our web traffic thatTonya is using for marketing andthe bus wrap youve probably seen driving around town in part-nership with the City of Vacavilleand the Downtown VacavilleBusiness Improvement District.

The ombudsman program isalso off to a great start.The City ison board and in complete agree-ment with our desire to stream-line the startup process for new businesses interested in investingin Vacaville.

I think I can speak for theChamber Board and staff when I

say that we are pleased with the work that has been done. I amproud to hand over a successfulset of programs and initiativesthat lay a foundation for moregreat things to come.

I would like to thank my Boardfor their support and commit-ment to our Chamber---Tracy Mitchell of Trade Mark

Advertising,Dallas Jackson of Jackson Medical, Joanie Ericksonof Solano Coalition for Better Health, Scott Reynolds of Gaw VanMale Attorneys, Scott Pardini of Recology, Dan Sharp of SharpPublic Affairs, Dilenna Harris of Kaiser Permanente,Debbie Egidioof DTS Egidio,Louie DeBartolo of DeBartolo @ Co Fine Jewelers,PatHannon of Janssen-Pharmaceutical,Sally Schulz of The Reporter, Barry Nelson of Travis Credit Union and MikeFortney of Placer Title Company.

Thank you for the honor andprivilege of serving as your BoardChair. It has been an amazing

year!

By Katheryn Tuberty,Chair of the Board

Katheryn TubertyChairperson Farmers Insurance

Tracy MitchellChair Elect

TradeMark AdvertisingDilenna HarrisImmediate Past Chair

Kaiser PermanenteDebbie Egidio

Treasurer DTS EgidioDallas Jackson

Vice Chair Clients/Members Jackson Medical Supply

Louie DeBartolo Vice Chair Education

DeBartolo & Co Fine JewelersJoanie Erickson

Vice Chair Business Issues Solano Collation for Better Health

Dan SharpSharp Public Affairs LLC

Mike FortneyPlacer Title

Barry NelsonTravis Credit Union

Scott PardiniRecology Vacaville Solano

Scott ReynoldsGaw Van MaleSally SchulzThe Reporter

Mark CreffieldPresident/[email protected]

Julie SabbaghDirector of Operations

[email protected] M. Dretzka

Membership Development [email protected]

Sherry McKillopLeadership Today Director

Darlene ChikelesBookkeeper

STAFF & CONTRACTORS

2013-14 OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

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Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 3 Vacaville Chamber of Commerce Business Comments

BUSINESS AFTER-HOURS MIXER, WAKE-UP VACAVILLE & CANDID

1. Ribbon Cutting for Petty & WarshawskyAttorneys At Law, 548 Main Street,Vacaville

2. May 20th - Wake-Up hosted The Landmark Image,821 Eubanks Drive, Suite H, Vacaville

3. May 15th - Vacaville Chamber of Commerce& Solano County Hispanic Chamber ofCommerce joint networking eventbenefiting Markham Elementary SpiceProgram hosted by Travis Credit Union, 1Travis Way, Vacaville

4. May 2nd - Annual Dinner Luau at Yin RanchPic #1: Mark Creffield presents Kim

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Trumbull with the Business of the Year Award toKaiser PermanentePic #2: Mark Creffield presents Tracy Mitchell,Incoming Chair of the Board with a gavel.Pic #3: Mark Creffield presents Katheryn Tuberty,

Outgoing Chair of the Board with a gavel.Pic #4: Julie Sabbagh presents Ralph Berumenwith KR Financial Services the Ambassador of theYear award.

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Sales Director - Sally Schulz | Project Coordinator -Shauna Manina

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Awaiting Hobby Lobby By Teresa A. Cunningham, Esq.Director and Employment Practice Chair with Gaw Van Male

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oralargument in the matter of Sebeilus v. Hobby Lobby Stores,Inc., et al.,a case that is oneof the latest challenges to the Obama

health care overhaul.The issue presented is whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993(RFRA), 42 U.S.C.Sections 2000 bb, et seq.,whichprovides that the government shall not substan-tially burden a per sons exercise of religionunlessthat burden is the least restrictive means to further acompelling governmental interest, allows a for-profitcorporation to deny its employees the health cover-age of contraceptives to which the employees are

otherwise entitled by federal law, based on the reli-gious objections of the corporations owners. Inenacting the Affordable Care Act (ACA),Congress hasrequired large employers to provide preventative carefor its employees, including all twenty (20) contra-ceptive methods approved by the Food and Drug

Administr ation. Under that l aw, religious non-p rofitsare exempted from this requirement, but for-profitcorporations were not so exempted.The lead plaintiff is Hobby Lobby Inc., a chain of 500 arts and craftsstores, wholly owned by the corporation, with some23,000 employees.The owners, five family members,have been characterized as conservative Christians,

who ob ject to cer tain methods of b irth control;namely, IUDs and the morning after pills, as interfer-ing with the creation of life.

Whatever the r eligious overtones, the pundits oneither side of the case agree that there are broadbased, complex legal issues at stake that could have aprofound effect on the implementation of health ben-efits and employment law in for-profit corporations

whatever the decision.This article is prepared with the understanding that the

author or the firm is not rendering legal advice or opin- ions on specific facts or matters and, accordingly, assumesno liability whatsoever in connection with its use.


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MEETINGS & EVENTS FOR JUNE & JULY 2014JuneJune 5 Business After Hours Mixer hosted by First Northern Bank,

555 Mason Street, Suite 100, Vacaville, 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

June 12 Ambassador Committee meeting held at the Hampton Inn & Suites,800 Mason Street,Vacaville, 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

June 13 Business Issues Educational Forum held at Travis Credit Union,1 Travis Way,Vacaville, 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

June 17 Wake-Up Vacaville hosted by the Vacaville Chamber of Commerce,300 Main Street, Suite A, 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

JulyJuly 10 Ambassador Committee meeting held at the Hampton Inn & Suites,

800 Mason Street,Vacaville, 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

July 10 Vacaville Chamber & Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce joint Mixer hosted byNorthBay Healthcare, 4500 Business Center Drive, Fairfield, 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

July 11 - Business Issues Educational Forum held at Travis Credit Union,1 Travis Way,Vacaville, 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

July 15 Wake-Up Vacaville hosted by West America Bank,138 Peabody Road,Vacaville, 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

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Locally, our district saw a major declinein its dropout rate, with Will C.Wood High School cutting the number in half fromthree years ago.The class of 2009-10 had a14.6 percent dropout, while the class of 2011-12 shaved that number to 7.3

percent.For the same years,Vacaville High School saw its rate drop from 12.2 percentto 7.7 percent.Vaca High also saw a sharpdecline in Hispanics dropping out of school.Data from the class of 2009-10showed that 19.1 percent of Hispanicstudents dropped out,in 2011-12 thatnumber dropped to 11.9 percent.

These numbers show reforms andefforts to ensure more students aregraduating are paying off.However,thereclearly is still much work to be done. Only through the continued commitment of teachers,families, communities, and state

and local government to provide high quality public education can this goal of graduating every student with aneducation that will prepare them for aproductive and successful future berealized.


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NEW/REJOINED MEMBERS FOR APRIL 2014Edges Hair StudioTammy Beck 537 Merchant Street Vacaville, CA [email protected]

Surgery Center Northbay VacaValleyKaren Faria1006 Nut Tree Road Vacaville, CA 95687707-446-2800www.northbay.org

Sonoma RacewayTony Capretto29355 Arnold Drive Sonoma, CA [email protected]

Church of EpiphanyThe Reverend Mack Olsen300 West Street Vacaville, CA 95688707-448-2275epiphany.admin@gmail.comwww.epiphanychurchvacaville.org

Evelyns Big Italian Pizzeria & RistoranteJason Ojeda555 Main Street Vacaville, CA 95688707-448-1600Evelynsvacaville@gmail.comwww.bigitalianpizzavacaville.com

Vezer Family VineyardChris Livadas2522 Mankas Corner Road Suisun Valley,CA [email protected]

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Dwyer/Rowe GroupBeth Rowe1715 Second Street Napa, CA [email protected]

Breakaway Funding, LLCKim Kaselionis2658 Bridgeway, Suite100 Sausalito, CA 94965415-729-9482info@breakawayfunding.comwww.breakawayfunding.com

National Federation of Independent BusinessGarry RoweSuisun,CA [email protected]

Cultive Frozen YogurtJanet Hanstad501 Davis Street,Suite B Vacaville,CA [email protected]

In 1999 I started pub-lishing newsletters for

Vacaville and Fa irfieldpolice and fire depart-

ments,whatever they thought the community should know on a quarterly basis of how to be safer (bad guys to watch out for,crime trends, fire safety tips, etc.).Now 14 yearslater, I still have many of same newsletter sponsors Istarted with.That speaks toboth the character of thesponsors and the quality of the cause. I love helpingthe police and fire depart-ments get their messageout, as well as benefitingthe sponsoring businesses. Ienjoy attending Chamber mixers with my wife,Nadia, and being involvedin local events.

AMBASSADOR OF THE MONTHBruce Chapman, Crimefighter Newsletter

Breakaway Funding Breakaway Funding connects

growth-ready entrepreneurs withinvestors seeking alternatives toconventional equity investments.Breakaway provides business owners

with the tools, technology and tra ining needed to conduct successful aggregatefinancing (crowdfunding) campaigns; and investors with the opportunity to investin companies of their own interest(s).

Leveraging the opportunities provided by the JOBS Act of 2012, Breakaway provides knowledge, expertise and a secure portal to help your businesses grow.

Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Welcome! At the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany,we

welcome everyone as children of God created in the imageof God.Whatever your religious background, age, race,gender, sexual orientation, or economic status, we welcome

you.Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. 12:00

p.m. Sunday Morning Services 8:00, 9:15, 11:00 & Wednesday 12:15 pm ~ 300 West Street,

www.epiphanychurchvacaville.org

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