October 2015 GMM Newsletter - Saipan Chamber of Commerce

TAKING CARE OF
BUSINESS
Newsletter of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce
OCTOBER 2015
Board of Directors
President:
Alex A. Sablan
General Membership Meeting
Seaside Hall – Kanoa Resort
October 7, 2015 (Wednesday)
Vice President:
Natalie Mable Ayuyu
Treasurer:
Michael Johnson
Secretary:
Velma Palacios
Directors:
Ron Smith
Chris Concepcion
Clarence “Bud” White
Wayne Gillespie
Nida Palconit
Executive Director
Jill Arenovski
Administrator/
Coordinators:
April J. Sablan
Giselle A. Butalid
AGENDA
I. Call to Order
II. Introduction of Member’s guests
III. Welcoming Remarks
IV. Introduction of New Members:
1. MIR Corporation
V. Guest Speakers:
1. Weston Deleon Guerrero - Acting Building
Code Official
CNMI Department of Public Works
2. Susan Langhoff - Assistant External Affairs
Officer, Private Sector Division
Federal Emergency Management Agency
3. John Synnott - Hazard Mitigation Branch
Director
Federal Emergency Management Agency
4. Glenn Hunter - Member
Community Outreach Recovery Effort
VI. Announcements
VII. Adjournment
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Thank you to the 2015 SCC Business Recovery Fair participants:
AON Insurance
 Department of Public Works
 Bank of Hawaii (BOH)
(DPW)
 Bridge Capital
 First Hawaiian bank (FHB)
 CNMI Department of Labor
 N15 Architecture
(DOL)
 Pacifica Insurance
 CNMI Small Business
 U.S. Department of
Development Center (SBDC)
Agriculture (USDA)
 CNMI Zoning Office
 U.S. Federal Emergency
 Commonwealth
Management Agency
Development Authority
(FEMA)
(CDA)
 U.S. Homeland Security
 Commonwealth Utilities
 U.S. Small Business
Corporation (CUC)
Administration (SBA)
 CTSI

Thank you to our September GMM Speakers:
Congressman Kilili Sablan (top left); Stephen
DeBlasio of FEMA (top right); William Koontz
of U.S. SBA (bottom left); and John Hirsh of
American Red Cross (bottom right)
2015 SCC BUSINESS RECOVERY FAIR
SCC Committee Reports
Armed Forces Committee (Judge David Wiseman & Brian Clayton): Next committee meeting will be October 28, 2015 (Wednesday).
Education Committee (Velma Palacios): Next committee meeting will be October 14, 2015 (Wednesday)
Environmental Committee (Ron Smith): Next committee meeting will be October 16, 2015 (Friday)
Events Committee (Nida Palconit): This year’s golf tournament has been cancelled.
Government Relations & Economic Development Committee (Ron Smith & John Gourley): Next meeting will be October 15, 2015.
Membership Committee: Chamber welcomes Mir Panna of MIR Corporation.
Small Business Committee (Perry Inos Jr. & Oscar Camacho): Upcoming business seminars will be geared towards recovery efforts.
Saipan Young Professionals Meeting (Mable Ayuyu): SYP assisted in typhoon relief efforts by volunteering at the Empty Vessel Ministry Foundation and collaborating in some of the Community Outreach Recovery Efforts (C.O.R.E.) events. Thank you Vicky Benavente of Pacific Islands
Club for being the SYP September Inspiration Speaker. The theme for October will be “Emergency Management.” Current events and other relevant information are available in the following Facebook page: www.facebook.com/syp96950.
Committee meetings are tentatively scheduled each month, but are subject to change based upon chairpersons’ scheduling requirements.
The Chamber Office will notify all Committee members of the exact scheduling dates and times before each meeting.
SYP would like to give a huge thanks
to Vicky Benavente (top photo) of
Pacific Islands Club and SYP
members, Ty Pauling and Zenn
Tomokane (bottom photo), of Hyatt
Regency Saipan for facilitating last
month’s SYP events
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The Saipan Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1959 and incorporated in 1976, is the largest private business
organization in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Chamber works to promote and
protect the business, economic, and civic interest, and general health and welfare, of our islands.
Visit the Chamber’s website at
www.saipanchamber.com