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Finance & Taxation Committee

2012-13 Terms of Reference for the Finance & Taxation Committee

Members of this committee share their expertise, offer advice, discuss issues, and if appropriate develop policy on any fiscal and taxation related issues which are brought forward to the committee for consideration.

Issues can be brought forward in a number of ways, including: directly from chamber members, committee members, chamber staff, policy forum and board members.

Issues which fall under the purview of this committee include, but are not limited to the following: budgets; fiscal policies, positions and programs; tax policies and statutes and, in collaboration with other standing policy committees take the lead in monitoring and analyzing the operating and capital budgets, taxes, levies and fees of the city.

2012-13 Membership

Daniel McBee - Chair
CIBC

Glen Demke- Vice Chair
KPMG

Darrell Toma

Toma & Bouma Management Consultants

Craig Thorkelsson
PCL

Marissa Adams
HSBC Bank Canada

Jospeph Yurkovich, Q.C.
Miller Thomson LLP

Eric Zhang
Enbridge Pipelines Inc.

Dean Screpnek (Resource)
City of Edmonton

Tom Pearson
Strategic Management Consultant


For more information, please contact:
Jason Leslie
Public Affairs
780-409-2609
JLeslie@edmontonchamber.com 

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In 1899, the board of trade acquired a 55-acre parcel of land, which became the site of the city’s new public park and racetrack.
In June 1915, the Edmonton Board of Trade raised $8,098 for the purchase of armaments for the 49th and 51st Battalions.
In 1928 the Edmonton Board of Trade was reconstituted as the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce.
In November of 1933, the chamber helped to promote recovery by advocating public works projects such as the Jasper and Yellowhead Highways.
In 1942, the chamber created an advertising bureau to help Edmonton merchants adjust to the anticipated decline in business during WWII.
In November 1946, the chamber formed the Better Business Division modeled after the Better Business Bureaus of Winnipeg and Vancouver.
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