Community Leadership Visits
Community leadership visits are an opportunity for Santa Cruz leaders to meet with business, education, and government leaders in different communities with similarities to Santa Cruz County to look at innovative ideas, programs and initiatives which might be adapted to our community.
Visits by community leaders to learn about the experiences of other cities and counties with similar issues and opportunities are a time-tested process that pays real dividends to the participants and their communities. The Santa Cruz Area Chamber has organized such visits for Santa Cruz County community decision makers. During these visits, local leaders travel to a different community, meet with leaders there, and explore how they have addressed some of the same problems our area faces.
Visits by community leaders to learn about the experiences of other cities and counties with similar issues and opportunities are a time-tested process that pays real dividends to the participants and their communities. The Santa Cruz Area Chamber has organized such visits for Santa Cruz County community decision makers. During these visits, local leaders travel to a different community, meet with leaders there, and explore how they have addressed some of the same problems our area faces.
Community Leadership Visit 2018
September 5 - 7, 2018
Creating positive change for Santa Cruz County’s Sustainable Future
Our home, Santa Cruz County and its cities, is at a tipping point where public policy decisions regarding a sustainable future from public land-use policy and key infrastructure development to private-sector land-use strategies and investments – will shape our region’s future for decades to come. We invite you to join us, a cross-section of public and private leaders engaged in making these decisions, for a 2 1/2 day immersion in these issues and a broad-ranging conversation about our future.
As business leaders we are asked to lead on these issues in partnership with our public sector. On September 5-6-7 we will embark on a visit to beautiful Lake Tahoe to learn how that region is working in collaboration to produce lasting effects to preserve the clarity of the Lake, address infrastructure deficiencies and inspire a new generation of leaders to ensure a sustainable future for the Lake Tahoe Basin. The similarities between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe are striking. Santa Cruz has its beaches and the Monterey Bay, the Santa Cruz redwoods and the scenic vistas where the mountain meets the Ocean - Lake Tahoe, too, is surrounded by the majestic Sierra Nevada National Forest and scenic vistas where mountains meet the lake. Anyone who has visited Lake Tahoe knows that as you drop into the Tahoe Basin the “Jewel of the Sierras” appears below. Mark Twain called Lake Tahoe the ‘fairest picture the whole world affords.’
The Community Leadership Visit (CLV) will include approximately 80 local leaders from throughout the County. We will visit the Lake Tahoe Basin, the four counties on both the California and Nevada side of the lake, talk with national, regional and local planning experts, and tour cutting-edge projects, seeing how innovation and technology advancements are used as tools to protect Lake Tahoe. Topics will include an overview of housing demand/supply, and the economics of infrastructure development; how Lake Tahoe leaders have successfully addressed social, political, and legal constraints; creative design through thoughtful sustainable strategies; collaborative projects integrating transportation, environmental improvement projects with commercial development; and stories about how different communities in Lake Tahoe Basin have transformed their political narrative about the balance the environment and the economic vitality of the Basin.
Registration Includes:
Roundtrip motor coach tour, two night hotel accommodations and all meals during the CLV trip. All incidential expenses are the responsibility of each participant.
Registration Dates and Prices:
$799/person | April 15 - June 30 *
$899/person | July 1 - August 1
* You may pay a 50% non-refundable deposit to "Reserve Your Spot". The deposit if paid by June 30 guarantee's you the early bird pricing. You will receive an invoice by July 1 for the remaining balance.
As business leaders we are asked to lead on these issues in partnership with our public sector. On September 5-6-7 we will embark on a visit to beautiful Lake Tahoe to learn how that region is working in collaboration to produce lasting effects to preserve the clarity of the Lake, address infrastructure deficiencies and inspire a new generation of leaders to ensure a sustainable future for the Lake Tahoe Basin. The similarities between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe are striking. Santa Cruz has its beaches and the Monterey Bay, the Santa Cruz redwoods and the scenic vistas where the mountain meets the Ocean - Lake Tahoe, too, is surrounded by the majestic Sierra Nevada National Forest and scenic vistas where mountains meet the lake. Anyone who has visited Lake Tahoe knows that as you drop into the Tahoe Basin the “Jewel of the Sierras” appears below. Mark Twain called Lake Tahoe the ‘fairest picture the whole world affords.’
The Community Leadership Visit (CLV) will include approximately 80 local leaders from throughout the County. We will visit the Lake Tahoe Basin, the four counties on both the California and Nevada side of the lake, talk with national, regional and local planning experts, and tour cutting-edge projects, seeing how innovation and technology advancements are used as tools to protect Lake Tahoe. Topics will include an overview of housing demand/supply, and the economics of infrastructure development; how Lake Tahoe leaders have successfully addressed social, political, and legal constraints; creative design through thoughtful sustainable strategies; collaborative projects integrating transportation, environmental improvement projects with commercial development; and stories about how different communities in Lake Tahoe Basin have transformed their political narrative about the balance the environment and the economic vitality of the Basin.
Registration Includes:
Roundtrip motor coach tour, two night hotel accommodations and all meals during the CLV trip. All incidential expenses are the responsibility of each participant.
Registration Dates and Prices:
$799/person | April 15 - June 30 *
$899/person | July 1 - August 1
* You may pay a 50% non-refundable deposit to "Reserve Your Spot". The deposit if paid by June 30 guarantee's you the early bird pricing. You will receive an invoice by July 1 for the remaining balance.
Sponsors
If you are interested in participating or sponsoring this event, please contact Casey Beyer at casey.beyer@santacruzchamber.org, or call (831) 457-3713.
