Dewitt Chamber & Development Co

“No review was or will be conducted.”

“The directors must sign an annual confidentiality statement.”

“The executive committee leads the annual review of the president and ceo. They solicit feedback from all board members prior to the review. The ec members then complete a written review and have the president and ceo complete a self assessment of the past year and future goals. Compensation changes are addressed during the review. The executive committee approves and then recommends the review to the board of directors, whom then approve the compensation change.”

“Documents are available for inspection upon request at the dewitt development company offices.”

“The dcdc is involved in supporting existing businesses and recruiting new businesses to the dewitt area. The dcdc partners with three regional economic development entities, grow clinton, quad cities chamber, and prosperity eastern iowa, and the state of iowa to recruit new business to the crossroads business park and community at large. The dcdc responds to prospective business inquiries regarding expansion of opportunities in our community. Our staff partners and leads community workforce development initiatives with businesses, community colleges and high schools in our region; including roundtable discussions, mock interviews, job shadows and internships and a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) festival. The dcdc continue conversations with our area community college to expand services to our community which encouraged the development of the new career advancement center in dewitt. 38,730 of chamber bucks gift checks were purchased by the community. This dollar for dollar program keeps spending local. A look local first initiative was also maintained, encouraging residents, employees and visitors to purchase goods and services in the community. To date the llf program has tracked 4.93 million dollars in local purchases. The dcdc leads the community in sharing general and organization specific information regarding federal and state initiatives with area businesses.”

“The dcdc promotes member business development. Membership includes 243 member businesses. We continue to offer a dues structure that allows members to choose the tier of membership they can afford and what they would benefit from. The dcdc ambassadors welcomed 8 new business to dewitt and celebrated 5 spotlight on successses for existing business growth and participated in 4 ground breakings. We recognized our outstanding members in our "members choice awards" that allows members and the community to cast their vote in different categories of business excellence and personal community volunteerism. Membership after hours events were held promoting networking between prospective and active members on a monthly basis. New member packets are distributed and quarterly dcdc 101 information sessions are held for new member company representatives. The annual golf bash fundraiser was held raising nearly 11,000 to fund dcdc initiatives. The dcdc newsletter "chamber link" is sent to over 697 people on a quarterly basis.”

“The dcdc works to improve branding and community relations for the dewitt community. Total number of community events we promoted grew to 815 community events which was distributed to over 2,000 subscribers to our weekly "what's happening in dewitt" e-newsletter, and shared to 5,000 followers on social media. Thousands of visitors brochures and community guides were distributed to residents, employees and visitors. A new holiday decor campaign was launched, "light up dewitt", which raised nearly 9,000 towards the goal of purchasing new downtown holiday lights and decor. A "welcome to dewitt" program for new residents and employees continues to be offered to new residents. The program was extended to potential employees to better support our existing businesses as they work to attract a high quality work force. The dcdc partners with the eastern iowa tourism, visit quad cities, and other regional chambers to promote community attractions and businesses to visitors. The dcdc website, dewittiowa.org, continues to be the primary dewitt community website with 235,369 page clicks. A local job posting function of the website is promoted and successfully utilized with 21,367 website page views last year. Several community events were coordinated by the dcdc including summer movies in the park, autumn fest, santa visits, a hometown christmas weekend and community wine walk and, new last year, a weekly tunes in town concert series that fills our community park with 1,000+ people on its busiest tuesday nights from june-august.”

“Support existing businesses, attract new business,and assist in enhancing the quality of life for our community.”