Greater Reading Economic Partnership Inc

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

“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 determine that all salaries are within acceptable ranges. The eight-member executive committee annually compares and reviews salaries of similar positions in similar organizations 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 determine that all salaries are within acceptable ranges. The eight-member executive committee annually compares and reviews salaries of similar positions in similar organizations 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 more than 45 berks county manufacturing companies to make them aware of the resources available to help them grow and retain jobs here in greater reading; -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; -continued to identify 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; -participated in several regional efforts including: corenet global summit, corepa, industrial asset management council, pennsylvania economic development association, site selector guild, 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 2016. Some of grep's major accomplishments included: -cultivated 86 leads; -had over 25,000 visits to our website a 56% increase over 2015; -created original content on greaterreading.com and deployed through various digital platforms; -cultivated over 7,100 followers and made over 650 posts on social media platforms; -created high-quality collateral materials and prospect information; -published e-newsletters; -attended 8 industry tradeshows and conferences to promote greater reading to highly targeted audiences; -traveled to england, taiwan, and japan to meet with targeted international companies; -wrote positive economic development articles for various magazines, journals, and newspapers, and; -produced videos and original content to promote agriculture lending opportunities in berks county.”

“Book / tax depreciation difference -152”