BizFed August Board Actions
Many thanks to the South Bay Association of Chambers for generously sponsoring the August Board Meeting and thank you to the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce for hosting us! Since this was the first Board meeting after returning from our month off in July, we addressed a number of hot issues. See below for the details! […]
Department of Water and Power shouldn’t be a ‘piggy bank’ for Los Angeles: Guest commentary
Op-Ed by David Fleming, Founder of the Los Angeles County Business Federation Published by LA Daily News Thursday, August 13th, 2015 Is it not unreasonable to assume that hundred-year-old underground water mains might eventually break? That assumption has apparently eluded present and past city leaders whom, for years, have failed to reserve needed funds for the repairs […]
BizFed Leadership Roundtable with Asm. Matt Dababneh, Chairman, Committee on Banking and Finance
On Monday, July 27, a diverse group of BizFed members traveled to the Van Nuys Government Center to meet with Assemblymember Matt Dababneh, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Banking and Finance. Dababneh was elected to the California State Assembly in November 2013, in the class of post-term limits legislators who have the potential to serve […]
Update on Small Business Initiative and Minimum Wage Work
Last week, BizFed members turned out in force to support the Small Business Initiative motion put forward by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Don Knabe and to make their voices heard on LA County’s effort to raise the minimum wage. Many thanks to the following BizFed members who were there and testified: Regional Black Chamber of […]
L.A. mayor hopes others do not adopt $15 minimum wage
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that while he thought a new $15 minimum wage would be a boon for the city, it wasn’t necessarily a good idea for other places to adopt that rate. He added that it would be good for the city if the surrounding Los Angeles County, which is mulling […]
Sky-High Bill for Business
Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal Published Monday, June 29, 2015 It’s raining money! Or so Gov. Jerry Brown would have us believe. The new state budget assumes $2.2 billion in new revenue from California’s pioneering cap-and-trade program designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But thousands of business and community leaders are concerned about […]
LA County balking at matching city’s $15 minimum wage
The city of Los Angeles’ decision to increase the minimum wage there to $15 an hour is causing turmoil for the surrounding county, where an effort to match the city’s rate has stalled. County Supervisor Hilda Solis, whose support is crucial, stunned advocates by opposing the proposed increase during a board of supervisors meeting Tuesday, […]
LA City Council rebuffs unions on exception to $15 wage, for now
The Los Angeles City Council rebuffed organized labor Wednesday by rejecting, for now at least, their request to include an exception for unionized businesses in the city’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage. The wage ordinance may still be amended to include the labor exemption before it takes effect, though. The ordinance’s passage Wednesday, even without the […]
