OUR GOAL S To increase Greater Oklahoma City’s ability to rapidly seize new and expanding economic opportunities by: •Creating a business climate and positive image that is a strong foundation for economic development • Attracting new businesses, supporting the growth of existing businesses, and fostering entrepreneurship •Enhancing the region’s attractiveness for visitors and events •Ensuring the region’s talent base for the future through improvements in education and attraction/retention of talent •Providing value-added opportunities and benefits to our membership •Supporting community efforts that enhance opportunities and amenities for residents
cybersecurity engineers to incentivize them to work for local employers. •Chamber efforts at the capitol also resulted in amended “constitutional carry” legislation to strengthen the rights of business/property owners and event hosts, and legislation to reclassify certain drug possession and property crimes as misdemeanors as part of the Chamber’s criminal justice reform efforts. The Chamber also successfully supported key teacher pay raise legislation and higher ed funding.
•For the second year in a row, Oklahoma City exceeded $15 million in total hotel room tax receipts in the 2019 fiscal year, with a 3.5% increase over 2018. The CVB team concluded FY 2019 with 372,116 definite room nights in the convention, sports, group tours and equine markets, and counted more than $171 million in economic impact for conventions and sports sales. •As part of its ongoing talent development plan, the Chamber launched the professional development event called Elevate. More than 50 speakers and 500 people attended.
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