Greater Reading Economic Partnership Inc

“The executive committee shall have management and supervision over grep and shall exercise general executive powers concerning all the property, business, personnel and affairs of grep.”

“Bill gage kristi gage-linderman vice chair board member family relationship”

“All members have the right to elect the members of the board of directors.”

“All persons and entities desiring membership shall have demonstrated an interest in fostering and promoting economic development in berks county; shall have been approved for membership by a majority vote of the executive committee of grep; and shall have made the minimum annual contribution for membership to the organization for the current membership fiscal year. In addition, entities shall have appointed a named individual as its representative to grep. There shall be at least a regular annual meeting of the members. As the terms of members of the board of directors of grep expire, the members shall, inter alia, elect the directors of grep at the annual members meeting. Members, as such, shall not receive any compensation for their services.”

“The executive committee treasurer, a cpa, completes a detailed review of the 990 and then presents the finalized document to the executive committee for their review.”

“The organization monitors and enforces its conflict of interest policy via audits and monitoring by the executive committee and board of directors.”

“An outside employment agency reviewed the salary range and determined that all salaries are within acceptable ranges. The eight-member executive committee compares and reviews salaries of similar positions and reviews the local cost of living in order to review the president and ceo's salary and approve changes.”

“An outside employment agency reviewed the salary range and determined that all salaries are within acceptable ranges. The eight-member executive committee compares and reviews salaries of similar positions and reviews the local cost of living in order to review the vice president's salary and approve changes.”

“Governing documents are available to the public upon request.”

“- worked with the county commissioners to develop a joint expedited approval process; - worked with more than 45 berks county manufacturing companies to make them aware of the resources available to help them grow and retain jobs in greater reading; - identified the potential development of new industrial sites and buildings. This is another element which is vital to helping our existing companies grow and to attracting new companies to our region by increasing available location opportunities; - continued the careers in 2 years marketing campaign to encourage enrollment in technical schools to ensure the region has the necessary workforce in place for future manufacturing and industrial needs; - managed the foreign trade zone initiative for greater reading; - continued to coordinate prospect site visits with economic development partners; - identified key common issues our local companies are facing which we as a community might be able to collectively impact; - participated in several regional efforts including: corenet global summit, industrial asset management council, medical device and manufacturing show west east, site selector guild, pennsylvania economic development association, and the world trade center of pennsylvania; and - met routinely with local legislators, state officials, community and business leaders to provide updates about economic development in greater reading. Grep, as the lead marketing agency for greater reading, also continued an aggressive marketing and public relations campaign throughout 2013. Some of grep's major accomplishments included: - developed a new grep website; - created high-quality collateral materials and prospect information including a new capabilities brochure; - developed a video to explain what economic development is; - published quarterly newsletters; - hosted over 80 site selectors, developers, and corporate real estate experts at special events to promote greater reading; - held a grep institute designed to address workforce needs; - attended 10 industry tradeshows and conferences to promote greater reading to highly targeted audiences; - submitted a 3 year report to the community outlining ride to prosperity progress to date and future goals; - published first grep investor directory; - continued to produce and host economic development in greater reading show on berks community television; - wrote positive economic development articles for various magazines, journals, and newspapers; and - managed over 5,400 database contacts.”

“Book / tax depreciation difference 2,568”