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Requiring Cash Increases Public Safety Risk for Businesses | King County Council Cashless Proposal
The King County Council is considering whether to require businesses in unincorporated King County to accept cash. The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce delivered the following testimony to the King County Council on June 20. The Chamber is continuing to track...
Washington State has a New Drug Possession Law | Blake Decision Recap
In 2021, the Washington State Supreme Court declared the state’s drug possession laws unconstitutional. During the legislative session that year, legislators passed a temporary fix classifying drug possession as a misdemeanor, but police officers were required to...
Local Proposals Prohibiting Public Drug Use | Seattle Metro Chamber Statement
In response to recent announcements from local elected leaders after the legislature failed to find agreement regarding the Blake decision, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement: “The scale of fentanyl and methamphetamine use in...
Support Seattle City Council Resolution 32050 | Seattle Police Department Staffing Incentives
Public safety is one of the top issues Chamber members share with us, and voters agree: in our most recent poll of 700 Seattle voters, 46 percent cited public safety as one of the top...
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Changes to Seattle’s Payroll Tax: Quarterly Payments & Inflation Adjustments
Starting this month, Seattle's payroll tax will be collected quarterly. Payments for the first quarter of 2022 are due on April 30. Seattle's Department of Finance and Administrative...
Tell Sound Transit What You Think
If you live, work, or play along the proposed alignments for light rail to West Seattle and Ballard, now is the time to start writing your comments on the draft environmental impact...
Legislative Session Week 9: Final Update on High-Priority Bills – Long-Term Care, Paid Family & Medical Leave + More
End of Session – March 7-10 The 2022 legislative session has officially adjourned. In the final week, legislators worked around the clock to finalize the budgets, work bills deemed...
2022 Legislative Session Update – A Game Changer For Our Region
Greetings, Seattle Metro Chamber members, We started the 2022 legislative session in January with some audacious goals and priorities, including: Investing hundreds of millions of...
Legislative Session Week 8: Priority Bill to Help Small Businesses Passes Senate & Fuel Tax Stripped from Transportation Funding Package
Week Eight – Feb. 28-March 4 Last week, the legislature passed two major cutoff deadlines, narrowing down the policy and fiscal bills still in play. Monday, February 28 was the...
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Small Business Disaster Relief Grants
The Washington State Department of Commerce has $9.7 million available for grants to small businesses with annual gross receipts of $5 million or less that have sustained a reduction...
Member Feature: Northwest Film Forum
Today's featured member, Derek Edamura, executive director of Northwest Film Forum, said the nonprofit is a film and arts center located in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood...
Supporting your community this Women’s History Month in 2023
In the 1970s, a group called the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women started a Women's History Week, and dozens of California...
Member Feature: Always Best Care
Today's featured member, Sarah H. Cave, owner/Seattle Metro Chamberistrator of Always Best Care - Seattle, said the business provides in-home companion and personal care to support...
Business COVID-19 Rules Ending in Spring 2023
Both the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency will end on May 11, the Biden Administration announced Jan. 30. The Washington State Department of Labor &...
Member Feature: SungLass Communications
Today's featured member, Estrella Sung, CPSM, marketing and business development professional for SungLass Communications, said the company is a woman- and minority-owned marketing...
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