BizFed Installs Officers for 2016
By HOWARD FINE Thursday, January 21, 2016 The Los Angeles County Business Federation, the umbrella group of local business organizations, has installed its new officers for 2016. The federation, commonly called BizFed, is an alliance of 155 business organizations in Los Angeles County representing 275,000 businesses that employ roughly 3 million people. It formed eight […]
BizFed Leadership Roundtable with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez
On Friday, November 6, BizFed leaders met with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations. Attendees learned that Asm. Gomez and Sen. Beall, Co-Chairs of Transportation Infrastructure Conference Committee, will ensure transportation funding bills get full floor votes this spring. Want to learn more? Click here for the full onesheet. Leadership roundtables are exclusive opportunities […]
BizFed recommends Short Term Rental principles to LA City Council
The BizFed Land Use, Housing, and Development Committee voted to recommend the following principles to guide the creation of a City of Los Angeles short-term rental ordinance: Local governments should collect Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT) based on short-term rentals. Local governments should create simple processes to enable platforms to facilitate TOT collection if those platforms so […]
OCTOBER BIZFED BOARD ACTIONS
Many thanks to UCLA Extension for generously hosting the October Board Meeting at their Downtown LA location. We addressed a number of hot issues. See below for the details! BizFed supports HR 9 Innovation Act to prevent frivolous patent lawsuits 2015 is on track to have more patent lawsuits filed than any year in history. 68% of […]
BizFed delivers wins on supermajority of bills we worked in 2015!
Sunday was the deadline for Gov. Brown to act on bills coming out of this year’s state legislative session, and we are pleased to report that more than two-thirds of the bills BizFed mobilized either to support or oppose resulted in our desired outcome. Please see below for a full list of our bills and […]
GO-Biz Receives 341 Applications from Businesses Seeking $75 Million Available for California Competes Tax Credit
Sacramento, Calif. – The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) today announced that it received a total of 341 applications with a combined tax credit request of $269 million for an available $75 million for the most recent California Competes Tax Credit application period which closed on August 17, 2015. This fiscal year, […]
Minimum wage: The future of the hourly worker in LA (#AT30)
Listen to the story on KPCC, by following this link. Larry Mantle and industry experts and workers discussed the impact and implementation of a $15 minimum wage hike in the City of Los Angeles at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood on July 7, 2015. KPCC’s AirTalk’s event focused on the impact and implementation […]
