Salinas Chamber of Commerce earns top award

On February 6, 2019, The Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce was recognized at the Western Association of Chamber Executives (WACE) annual conference for leading one of the Top Five Chamber programs in the Western United States.

The award came after Chamber research and discussions with the City of Salinas showed ever-rising cost of pensions and employee benefits were driving major increases in city costs and concomitant increases in the burden placed on local businesses and residents.

WACE found the Salinas Chamber identified this challenge early and started sounding the alarm in April, 2017. Throughout 2018, the Chamber published a campaign informing its members and the community about the City of Salinas’s budget crisis.