Livingston Parish Business Advocacy
Advancing the Livingston Parish Economy
Business in Livingston Parish
Business plays a vital role in a thriving Livingston Parish. In addition to generating local employment opportunities and a positive tax base, private partnerships through business bring meaningful projects to our local communities.
An active business community generates positive attention to our area. For that reason, the chamber was formed giving business leaders a platform to participate in a better Livingston Parish. Your input and presence resonate with local officials, business leaders and stakeholders, showing your interest in our community’s well-being. You can help shape the landscape of our parish. On the flip side, without collective action from you, business can be an afterthought being overlooked for the capable resource you are.
Below we've lined out the offerings of this program and ways we engage business. You can also read this quick review and levels of engagement. We welcome your participation and / or a call to our office to find out more.
Committee Members and their buisness can be found here.
Hear from Government Officials
An informed business is a strong business. Take advantage of updates from local, state and federal officials that offer a clearer view of what's coming our way.
In addition to gaining valuable information, you will have the opportunity to connect and build relationships with local officials and other business leaders. Attendance ranges from the larger events of nearly 200 seen here to small gatherings and round table settings of 10.
Opportunities and Events include:
- State of the Parish
- State of Education or Law Enforcement
- Mayor's Updates
- Legislative & Congressional Updates
Business & Industry Updates
Through Business & Industry Updates, you can hear from a local expert who fills us in on industries that are impacted by global, national or state trends that resonate here in our local economy. At times, we pair these to hear from the government side to collaborate on the issue.
These have been highly regarded by participants and the information gained is worthy of the busiest person's time. The calendar of events, updated regularly and found here, includes:
- Business & Industry Updates
- Briefings from Government Officials
- Updates from the state chamber
- State and federal fly ins, attendance
Candidate Forums - Election Information
For decades, the chamber has provided professional, unbiased candidate events to Livingston Parish. We have hosted candidates from a nationwide audience, remember the Edwin Edwards – Garret Graves forum, to local village seats. These encourage an informed voter base and serve as invaluable platforms to engage directly with aspiring leaders.
These forums provide a unique opportunity to
- assess candidates' stances on critical issues.
- gain insights into potential future policymakers.
- voice concerns and share perspectives.
- gauge the leadership ability of the candidates.
Communications - keeping you informed
It would be an understatement to say there is an avalanche of information about anything these days. Here is where we come in. Because we are business association, information about business is shared with us on a regular basis helping to filter some of the noise. Some is very timely and needs a quick review. Some is not. For those reasons we have the following set up.
We disseminate information in the following ways:
- Email - is it dead? No, it isn't. But we also keep correspondence here to a minimum. Make sure you are on our list.
- Newsletters - Sounds old school too? It's loaded with good stuff and historical content.
- Social Media - facebook public group. For sharing information fast. Follow along here.
Livingston Parish Business Priorities
- Widening of the entire I-12 corridor.
- Bass Pro Economic Development Project - proponents of a yes vote.
- Promoting and endorsing key tax renewals for quality of place including schools, roads and drainage.
- Support of Juban Crossing.
- In favor of a simplified state tax filing process.
- Take a look at the annual Livingston Parish Business Priority Guides
A sampling of the past activities for business
Livingston Parish Back 2 Work
Your business needed to know where to turn when concerns for the COVID shut downs hit. The chamber industry was second to none in preparing our local businesses for the options available to keep your business going. Immediately a Back 2 Work Task Force was formed and business leaders from all industries were appointed to represent the new challenges of running a business.
- Navigating PPP Funding
- Human Resources and Covid
- Health Concerns through Covid
- Business responsibility to their employees
- A resource page for business
- Livingston Parish Business Priority Guides
LP Back 2 Biz - Flood - COVID and Representing Business
An international award winning campaign that let everyone know that Livingston Parish businesses were back in action and ready to serve soon after the Flood of 2016.
The parish has been through more than our share of disaster in the past four years. When disaster struck in 2016, the Chamber was the "go - to " organization for working to bring our businesses back and keep them here. We worked tirelessly with our federal, state and local delegation to bring true insight to the way the recover was going for business.