Mayor And Council To Consider Business Summit Proposal

Councilmember John Britton

Among other subjects that the Mayor and Council will be taking up at tonight’s meeting, One interesting item will be a proposal put forward by Councilmember John Britton to convene a Rockville Business Summit.

Here’s how Councilmember Britton puts the idea:

To create . . . more cohesion among our business, government, nonprofit and residential sectors, I suggest the convening of a Business Summit attended by elected officials, City staff, members of the business and nonprofit communities writ large, representatives of neighborhood groups and community associations and other residents. The results of such a summit would be determined by the scope of its agenda and breadth of the attendees, and might include, but not be limited to, the institution of regular annual (or more frequent) summits, enhancement of REDI and the Chamber, business and community sponsored town hall meetings, expansion of business and community presentations to elected officials, City staff and other business, nonprofit and residential representatives, or some other mechanism to ensure a consistent exchange and discussion of information. At a minimum, a summit could be an incubator of ideas to improve the relationships among businesses, nonprofits, official Rockville and residents, or a vetting process for business proposals — e.g., signage, streamlined city processes, new business development and code enforcement — before they are presented to the Mayor and Council.

Read the full proposal here.

This is not the only item on tonight’s agenda. The Mayor and Council will decide what to do about the NGF RedGate report, and consider its procedure for approving portable classrooms in the public schools.

Stay tuned for coverage of this subject and more!

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