ANNUAL REPORT2016

Welcome to our friends and partners helping us drive business success in Richardson. Accredited as a 5-star chamber by the U.S. Chamber, the RCC is in the top 1 percent of chambers in the nation, recognizing high quality, expertise and strong leadership.

Our mission: we develop and provide leadership for our members and community through advocacy, alliances, economic development and education to advance economic prosperity.

Chairman’s Message

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Hard work by our members yielded more great success and progress for the Richardson Chamber and our community in 2016. Here are a few of the highlights from my perspective.

EducationWe must attract and develop a qualified workforce to sustain and grow the community. I was proud that my organization, Methodist Richardson Medical Center, teamed with the Richardson Independent School District to provide real-world health sciences training to high school students.

The hospital provides RISD with 7,000-square-feet of space for the RISD Health Science Program at Methodist Richardson. Students have access to work areas and operating rooms that are vacated but still operational, giving them hands-on experience in a hospital setting.

Once they complete that phase, students move to rotations at the new Renner Road facility where they can be directly involved with caring for patients. The program enrolled 220 students last fall. We need to find more ways for our businesses and schools to work together to enhance our workforce.

CommunicationWe increased our effort to tell the community what the Chamber of Commerce does for them. We ran a monthly column in Richardson Today, the city’s newsletter, telling residents about the benefits brought to them by Chamber programs.

Chamber is 5-star accredited, again!The Chamber originally applied for accreditation in 2010 and received the highest 5-star accreditation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Our staff and volunteers put in countless hours last year to bring our accreditation up to date, and for the second time, we were awarded the prestigious 5-star accreditation. Only 1 percent of the nation’s chambers achieve this elite status.

Collins/East Arapaho Task ForceThe Economic Division’s 2016 targeted goal was to develop innovative ideas to improve the Collins/East Arapaho area. The East Arapaho Task Force is comprised of area stakeholders, city officials and community leaders joining to brainstorm ways to improve the area’s vitality.

Ken Hutchenrider

2016 Chairman of the Board,

President, Methodist

Richardson Medical Center

The result is a recommendation to city leaders and stakeholders to promote the area as an innovation district with access to resources, transportation and location advantages. The 1,000-acre area is bounded roughly by Campbell Road on the north, Plano Road on the east, Apollo Road on the south and Greenville Avenue on the west.

GrowthIt is impossible not to notice all the quality growth at CityLine, along the U.S. 75 corridor and around the University of Texas at Dallas. This growth is due in part to the hard work and persever-ance of the Chamber staff and volunteers during the last decade.

MobilityThe Chamber has worked hard for years to promote the proposed Cotton Belt commuter rail line from DFW Airport through Richardson and CityLine. We are thrilled that the efforts have paid off with DART approving the plans for funding in 2016 that will make the commuter rail service operational by 2022.

Thank you to the Chamber staff and the hundreds of volunteers who worked so hard last year to move us forward in achieving our goals. It is a blessing to live and work in a community with so many people committed to making it a better place to live and work.

Supporters at a DART meeting lend their support to the Cotton Belt.

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Economic Development

The Richardson Economic Development Partnership (REDP) recorded 20 Richardson expansion and relocation projects that will add or retain 2,002 jobs and result in the occupancy of 513,000 square feet of office and flex space. The three largest projects of 2016 were Aprima Medical Software (280 employees from Carrollton), Applied Concepts Inc. (135 employees from Plano) and Qorvo (Richardson expansion for 450 workers).

REDP continues to take on areas of revitalization around Richardson. A growing interest has been the revitalization of downtown, and, this year, has extended north to the single-story, office/showroom, or ‘flex’ space of East Arapaho north to Campbell Road. In 2016, a Chamber task force studied the needs of the area and presented a proposal to the City Council that includes some areas of rezoning and developing a marketing campaign for the area, emphasizing its legacy as an innovation hub, and filling the area with high-quality technical jobs.

REDP launched a new talent attraction campaign and microsite in an effort to better tell the city’s story and attract millennial workers to live, work and play in Richardson.

REDP’s microsite, RealRichardson.com, connects young profes-sionals with job opportunities and places where they can live in Richardson. Videos showcase elements of Richardson that are fun and make it a destination for upscale urban-minded millennials. The site has had more than 4,000 visits in its first six months.

During 2016, the Mayor’s Office of International Business was involved in 25 international delegation visits and meetings with foreign dignitaries that included 164 foreign visitors. A recent business development trip to Asia allowed REDP VP Mike Skelton to participate in a TexasOne delegation visit to Japan with 300 executives (pictured below).

Pictured are Joe Chapa, Irving Chamber; Sally Bane, Plano Economic Development; Aichi Prefecture Governor Hideaki Omura; Harry Whalen, Frisco Economic Development; Mike Skelton, REDP.

Goals• Attract and retain targeted companies• Increase the number, quality and variety of job opportunities• Market and promote Richardson

The Richardson Restaurant Park on 75 is finished and new tenants are moving in. Above, the Halal Guys, a New York-based chain with gyros, falafel and rice, stands beside Wokk Asian Cookhouse and Dog Haus Biergarten.

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Events & Programs

The Chamber hosts a number of events to educate, update and connect members. Two different events recognize the com-panies and individuals who contribute to growing Richardson: EDGE awards and the Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting featured U.S. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (pictured above, right) and recognized our volunteers of the year (left).

The Citizen of the Year was Frank Kozel, Jr. Volunteers recognized include: Bob Krombach, Preferred Office Solu-tions; Richardson Young Professionals (Alix Foster, Cordell Reynolds, Jon Brooks); Sandee Treptow, sponsor Reliant; Rebecca Stenoien, The Warren Center; Jolene Hersch, Argo Data; Zhenhua Yao, ZTE; chairmen Charlie Chen and Ken Hutchenrider; President Bill Sproull. EDGE awards went to Richardson Bike Mart, Institute of Innovation & Entrepre-neurship at UTD, Whole Foods, Lintec of America, GEICO, Shop Companies, Junior Achievement of Dallas, TI-RFAB.

Below are teams at the Chamber’s Golf Classic and (bottom) at the Bowling Tourney showing off their shirts.

EDGE awards and Annual Meeting photos courtesy of chamber member A Perfect Foto.

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Being good stewards with the membership dollars we’ve been entrusted is very important to us. The Chamber once again received a clean audit with a ‘high level of financial competency’ note.Financial Stewardship

Income Expenses Organization Income

GEICO’s Dan Beacom receives the Chamber’s EDGE (Economic Development, Growth and Expansion) award for newcomer business. He is pictured with Chairman Ken Hutchenrider (Methodist Richardson Medical Center), Mayor Paul Voelker, Chamber President Bill Sproull and former Chairman Charlie Chen (DFW Technology).

Sponsor Methodist Richardson at Health & Wellness Expo

Member renewals, 32%

President's Club, 22%LR, 12%

Events, 24%

New members, 10%

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RCC, 25%

REDP, 41%

Tech Titans, 34%

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Tech TitansPersonnel, 73%

Operating, 27%

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Goals:• Develop a three-year education and workforce plan to meet the

Chamber’s strategic education and workforce goal• Leverage existing opportunities to align community and education

needs• Enhance awareness of collaborative opportunities among

education and the business community

Leadership Richardson experienced a year of growth and had the largest class in program history. Additionally, curriculum updates were implemented to mirror the evolving complexion of Rich-ardson and to further enhance leadership.

Education & Workforce

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz visited the Chamber as

the first stop in a tour to listen to constituents.

Cruz has a relationship with Richardson since

making it his first major speaking engagement in

Texas after his swearing in at the 2013 Annual

Meeting.

Public Policy

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A group in Leadership Richard-son XXXII introducing them-

selves creatively to the rest of the class through a skit.

Legislative Alertsrichardsonchamber.com/legislative

The Chamber has a particularly strong working relationship with fed-eral, state and city elected officials. The Public Policy committee works diligently to prepare a legislative agenda to determine top priorities for our city in preperation for the biennual Texas legislative session.

The Richardson Chamber is one of the few in the area that produces a scorecard of how our elected officials voted in alignment with this selected legislative agenda. It creates frank dialogue in keeping them accountable to our long-term interests.

At the same time, Richardson is attactive for high-profile visits. In the past year alone, the Chamber hosted two U.S. senators, the Texas lieutenant governor, state comptroller and land commissioner.

Our thanks to our dedicated board members for their time and commitment to the success of businesses in Richardson.

Executive CommitteeChairman of the Board Ken Hutchenrider Methodist Richardson Medical Center1st Vice Chair, Economic Division Bryan Marsh Digital RealtyVice Chair, Membership Division Sandee Treptow Reliant EnergyVice Chair, Community Division Beth Kolman Cisco SystemsVice Chair, Business Services Angela Lopez BB&T BankVice Chair, Budget & Finance Martin Molloy Halff AssociatesImmediate Past Chair Charlie Chen DFW Technology

Elected MembersKory Aoyama Blue Cross Blue Shield TexasLisa Autry Bank of TexasKelly Bowman Amegy Bank Stan Bradshaw US Freedom CapitalJerry Cornelius Canyon Creek Art & FrameJoe Costantino Einstein’s Eyes Web DesignHeather Honeycutt State FarmSusan Kassen Ebby Halliday RealtorsGreg Kish Kish, Manktelow & Bailey, P. C.Bob Krombach Preferred Office SolutionsBrad Lipton Maverick Commercial Real EstateAaron MacPhie BKM Sowan HoranHank Mulvihill Mulvihill Asset ManagementEric Peltier Legacy Texas BankAmanda Rockow University of Texas at DallasTom Weichel Texas InstrumentsKirk Wilson Dean Air Conditioning & Heating Co.Barry Young Oncor Electric Delivery

Advisory MembersKarah Altman Richardson ISDCelina Cardenas Atmos EnergyBarb Gatti Marketing SuccessoriesKitty Goddard Arts Incubator of RichardsonDenise Grodé Lennox InternationalMaria Harris BRY-JOAdam Keller Atlas Wealth AdvisorsEron Linn DARTKatie Patterson Richardson Adult Literacy CenterMelinda Pepperl Fossil Group, Inc.Ken Presley Frost BankElizabeth Purdy-Bergin ANBTX Insurance ServicesDebbi Richards Richland CollegeKaren Springs Farmers InsuranceCamille Ussery BTH Bank

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Ex-Officio MembersMayor Paul Voelker City of RichardsonDan Johnson City of RichardsonKim Caston Richardson ISDDavid McCombs Haynes and Boone, LLPDr. Jeannie Stone Richardson ISDKrish Prabhu Tech Titans

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Members of the President’s Club are business and community leaders who have made a significant commitment to the Chamber through volunteer leadership and financial support. Through their

commitment, President’s Club members help the Chamber realize its vision to enhance the business environment for its members and the community.

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