2011 Annual Report

Table of Content s

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2011 Board of Directors

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Member Awards Winners

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2011 Committee Chairs

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Ribbon Cuttings

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Accomplishments

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Chamber Partners

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Res in Motus Winners

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Financials

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Message from t he 2011 Chair of t he Board

It’s hard to believe that 2011 has already come and gone. What a truly great year it was at the Lee’s Summit Chamber.

Together our Chamber accomplished many things to continue to set our business in motion.

On January 1, 2011, the Chamber launched its redesigned website lschamber. com. The fresh, new, vibrant look allows for easy navigation and high visibility of Chamber members. Additional features of the site include a Chamber Events Calendar, Community Calendar of Events, membership information, 2011 health care directory, press room, general information about Lee’s Summit and much more. I invite all members, when looking for a product or service, to visit our website and select a Chamber member.

In May the Chamber launched the Lee’s Summit Chamber App. Our smartphone app is available as a free download for all iPhone and Android users. This app is not only useful for our members,

but the community as a whole.

For example, if you are looking for some weekend fun, just click the app and you can view a complete list of Lee’s Summit community events.

Of course the Chamber continued to provide the services that our members have come to expect. Some examples include our educational programming, networking events, legislative representation/ lobbying, annual trip to Jefferson City and much more.

This is just a quick look at what the Chamber has accomplished in the past year. Turn to page 6 to view more.

I am honored to have served as the 2011 Chair of the Board, and thank you for your continued support of our Chamber’s mission and programs.

I look forward to remaining involved in the Chamber’s efforts moving forward.

Lynn Hinkle 2011 Chair of the Board Great Southern Bank

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2011 Executive Committee & Divisional Vice Chairs

2011 Board of Direct ors John Beaudoin Lee’s Summit Journal Bill Baird The Baird Group Michael Blau Farmers Insurance & Financial Services Carole Culbertson Culbertson Properties Management, LLC Vicky Cundiff Turf’s Up-Weed Man Julie Doane Missouri Central Credit Union

Diane Forte, Chair Elect Dean’s Trophies Shirts & Awards

Damond Boatwright Treasurer, Lee’s Summit Medical Center

Bob Glaser Summit Bank of Kansas City Rodney McBride John Knox Village Jane Monroe Embrace the Grape Beverage Catering Dr. Emmanuel Ngomsi All World Languages & Cultures, Inc. Robert Pendland CE2L-Certified Energy/Environmental Labs Debbie Starke Eastland Community Foundation

Mark Parrish, Chair Emeritus, Mo. Association of Trial Attorneys

Melinda Hadley-deBoer Membership Development The Culture Coaches

Joe Stasi Saint Luke’s East - Lee’s Summit Deborah Swank Kansas City Power & Light Jeffrey Williams Heritage Companies

Ex-Officios Steve Arbo City of Lee’s Summit

Carl Chinnery, Legal Counsel Chinnery, Evans & Nail, PC

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Dr. Fred Grogan MCC-Longview Geoff Hill, Community Development Aircraft Electronics Association

Carolyn McKnight, Economic Development University of Central Missouri

Dr. David McGehee R-7 School District Mayor Randy Rhoads

2011 Committees & Chairs Ambassadors: Lisa Hood Recruits and mentors new members and develops awareness of the Chamber in the community.

Business Development: Desiree Rogers Plans Recess for Success and Wake Up to Success seminars based on issues of interest to businesses.

Business Sustainability: Randy Scarborough Advocates for businesses to create a culture of positive environmental behaviors.

Education Committee: Phyllis Balagna Promotes business partnerships with the education community; selects four scholarship recipients each year, hosts a welcome breakfast for new R-7 teachers and the recipient for the R-7 Teacher of the Year award. (pictured below) Governmental Relations: Carl Chinnery Studies local, state and federal

legislative issues of interest to businesses and prepares legislative priorities. Plans an annual trip to Jefferson City, and meetings with the legislators during session.

Health Care: Diane Seif Studies health care issues impacting the community, and provides an annual Health Fair and a Health Care Directory to all households in Lee's Summit.

Leadership Lee’s Summit: John Brown, Chad Godfrey, Kelly Spencer and Jeff Sullivan Coordinates and facilitates the leadership program.

Membership: Cindy Stokes Makes contact calls to existing members and leads efforts to retain current members.

Oktoberfest: Karl Bertram Plans the annual fall festival, scheduled for the last full weekend in September.

Technology: DJ Good Supports small businesses by providing access to technical assistance and enhances the Chamber’s current technology efforts.

Visitors Council: Brett Nieman Identifies and develops Lee’s Summit’s unique features for the purpose of tourism development and marketing.

Young Professionals: Tyler Morehead Provides networking opportunities for Chamber professionals between the ages of 21-35.

2011 Task Forces Annual Gala & Auction: Shanna Lockhart Organizes and solicits donations for the auction held each year at the Annual Dinner held in January.

Annual Golf Classic: Chris Lilley Coordinates the annual Chamber Golf Classic tournament held each summer.

Holiday Reception: Lisa Pycior Plans and organizes the Holiday Reception held on the first Wednesday in December.

Res In Motus: Rick Viar Reviews applications and selects annual award winners.

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2011 Accomplishment s Kicked off the year with a Good News Breakfast, celebrating with partners and key businesses in their successes.

Continued progress in the advancement of the reconstruction of Lee’s Summit Road from Colbern Drive to Highway 40.

Significant success on legislative issues at the State level, i.e.

Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act, Franchise Tax Elimination and workers’ compensation reform.

Launched and re-branded the Chamber’s website, lschamber. com with ease of operation.

Partnered with the City of Lee’s Summit and United Way of Kansas City to provide free tax preparation services for low-income Lee’s Summit residents during the months of February & March.

Maintained the #3 status on the list of metro area chambers in the Kansas City Business Journal.

Successfully launched the Chamber’s App, the second chamber in the KC region to offer that resource.

Produced community publications including the 2011 Membership Directory, Map of Lee’s Summit, Health Care Directory, Education Directory, tourism brochures, Community Calendar of Events, annual Visitors Guide and Lee’s Summit Community Profile.

Partnered with the City of Lee’s Summit and Springsted on a small business development project aimed to ease development issues for small businesses.

Partnered with the Lee’s Summit Journal for a School Board Candidate Forum with over 70 audience participants.

Partnered with the R-7 School District to select and award the Excellence in Teaching recipients, as well as Teacher of the Year, who went on to compete and win the Missouri Teacher of the Year Award.

Coordinated and took over 60 chamber members for a day of service in Joplin. (pictured above) Orchestrated the Entrepreneurs in Motion Breakfast in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week with John McDonald, Founder/CEO of Boulevard Brewing Company, as the keynote speaker.

Participated in organizing and hosting the City’s Environmental Event –“Green on Green”. There were over 200 residents and 28 environmental businesses/ organizations participating.

Participated in and supported the community branding efforts.

Improved retention rate despite difficult economic climate.

Recognized four outstanding businesses for our Res in Motus Business of the Year Awards.

Re-branded Chamber Before and After Hours, encouraging themes and building attendance at events.

Maintained and enhanced community partnerships with key community organizations.

Partnered with the R-7 School District to host an Ethics Workshop for high school students, providing business leaders as facilitators.

Celebrated special milestone Chamber anniversaries with 89 member businesses, from 5-45 years.

Recruited 192 new members with the assistance of 35 different member recruiters.

Re-vamped new member events into Chamber 101: Get Plugged In with a video featuring chamber members (compliments of Home Studio Videos).

Nancy Bruns, President, celebrated 25 years in the Chamber profession; continued retention of great Chamber staff members.

Implemented monthly withdrawal option for payment of membership investment.

Expanded the Chamber Humana Health Discount Insurance Program with over 68 member businesses participating.

Continued partnership with Cinematic Visions to provide members with the opportunity to purchase videos for the business, which are also placed on the Chamber’s website.

Executed tourism marketing on behalf of the City of Lee’s Summit.

Provided 55,440 online referrals.

Awarded four $1000 scholarships to graduating high school seniors.

Partnered with the R-7 School District for a breakfast to welcome the new teachers to the district.

Graduated the 21st class of Leadership Lee’s Summit with 25 participants, bringing the number of alumni to over 420.

Hosted 12 Recess for Success Professional Development Series Workshops, and six Wake Up to Success Work/Life Balance Series Workshops.

Held successful Annual Golf Classic and the Cocktails & Caddies Women’s Golf Tournament.

Enhanced Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages as another information source for members and the community.

Orchestrated Annual Legislative Day in Jefferson City.

Continued growth and participation in the Young Professional group that completed four community service projects.

Participated in the Legacy Park Community Center Birthday Bash by hosting a Free Community Health Fair.

Successfully coordinated the first annual Dancing with the Chamber Stars competition, raising over $14,500 for the Chamber’s Education Scholarship Foundation.

Two chamber staff completed their second year of the fouryear Institute for Organizational Management certification program.

New tourism avenues were explored including bus and social media ads.

Coordinated another successful Oktoberfest!

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2011 Res in Motus Winners

Pictured from left to right: Marian Zajic, Marian's Kids; Jeanine Rann, Downtown Lee's Summit Main Street, Inc.; Terry Trafton, Lakewood Counseling Service TMC and Phyllis Balagna, Steppin’ Out-The Studio.

Four local businesses were recipients of the Lee’s Summit Chamber Res in Motus (Business in Motion) Business of the Year Award at the monthly membership luncheon in May 2011. The four award winners include:

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Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, Inc. (nonprofit)

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Steppin’ Out–The Studio (five or less employees)

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Marian’s Kids (6-15 employees)

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Lakewood Counseling Service TMC (over 15 employees)

Winners are selected based on their service to the Chamber and to the community, prudent business practice, stability/ growth, history of good employee relations, effective marketing strategies, technology resource management and the application presentation.

Chamber Member Award Winners Each year at the Chamber Annual Gala, recognition is given to Chamber members who donate several hours of their time and energy for the good of the organization.

These members attend as many events as possible, are always available when needed and include

Bob Glaser Ambassador of the Year

the Chamber as a part of their daily lives.

Awards presented at the Annual Gala include Ambassador of the Year, Steve Gouldsmith New Member of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and Lifetime Membership Award.

Jon Garlow Steve Gouldsmith New Member of the Year

Phyllis Balagna Volunteer of the Year

Ken Stremming Lifetime Membership Award

Hall of Fame Inductee The inductee for 2011 is the Bank of Lee’s Summit. As one of the oldest businesses in Lee’s Summit, they are a great addition to the Hall of Fame.

Since new ownership in 2000, Bank of Lee’s Summit joined the Chamber and has been a strong Chamber advocate. Several of their staff have participated in various committees since that time. They have been extremely active in the Education Committee. Bank staff has served on the task force to interview and help select the Teacher of the Year as well

as the recipients of the high school senior scholarships that the Chamber awards each year. They have been very gracious in sponsoring the breakfast for the Chamber’s annual train trip to Jefferson City. Several of their staff have graduated from the Chamber’s Leadership Lee’s Summit program and one has served as LLS Coordinator for the past two years.

They have been a Chamber Silver Partner since the inception of the program, providing sponsorship for many of our events.

The Chamber appreciates the strong partnership between our two organizations and are pleased to include them in the Hall of Fame.

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Ribbon Cutting Celebrations Advanced Wound Care of LS Medical Center Classic Contracting LLC Clear / Laptop Squad Costa Vida Mexican Grill Discover Vision Centers Five Petals Foot Care Plus Forever Young Boutique Freeland Photography Get in Shape For Women

New View Interiors

Smallcakes

Julia E. Hampton-Olinger, CPA, PC

Greg Olinger Financial & Insurance Services

Sports Med Plus

Healing Hands Chiropractic: Sports & Wellness Center Heater Chiropractic, LLC Lee's Summit Dermatology Associates, PC

Strikerz Entertainment Center

Oxi-Armor, Inc. – Anti-Microbial Services

Summit Art-Got Art Gallery

Primary Care Plus

Summit Fair Dental Care

Sideways Smiles Photography, LLC

The Children’s Place

Lee’s Summit Jazzercise

The Lodge

Massage Heights

Tower Loan

Maurices

Truman Heartland Community Foundation

Metabolic Weight Loss of Lee’s Summit, Inc. mTown.biz National Bank Of Kansas City

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Turf etc. - Authorized SYNLawn Supplier US Bank (Longview)

Congratulations!

2011 Chamber Part ners GOLD

$450,000 $400,000 $350,000 $300,000 $250,000 $200,000 $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $0

American Foodservice Great Southern Bank Humana Health Plans, Inc. Kansas City Power & Light Sprint

SILVER

Bank of Lee’s Summit Discover Vision Centers DVA Enterprises, Inc. First Community Bank HSMC Companies John Knox Village Lee’s Summit Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep Metcalf Bank Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys Paradise Park, Inc. Saint Luke’s East - Lee’s Summit Summit Bank of Kansas City Truman Medical Center Lakewood University of Central Missouri

$450,000 $400,000 $350,000 $300,000 $250,000 $200,000 $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $0

2011 INCOME 2011 Income

2011 EXPENSES 2011 Expenses

BRONZE

Allee & Company, CPA, LLC B Positively Promoting U, inc.

Dean's Trophies, Shirts & Awards Excel Bank KC Metro Insurance Agency Lee’s Summit Journal Lee’s Summit Nissan Missouri Central Credit Union Parker Swearngin, LLP Pfizer Animal Health STS-Summit Technical Solutions, LLC Technology Plus, Inc. The Wilson Group, Inc. Wal-Mart

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Lee’s Summit Chamber St aff

Nancy Bruns, CCE, President • Mark Dickey, Vice President Gina Seibel, Director of Communications • Chrissy Symes, Director of Special Events • Cathy Young, IOM, Director of Member Services Nedra Hoover, Bookkeeper • Kathy LeChien, Administrative Assistant • Marilyn Pemberton, Part-time Assistant