David's BlogThursday, January 21, 2016Continuing a Long Partnership
Continuing a Long
Partnership
Our Chamber recently
celebrated its 145th year of service to our beloved community. This fact, along
with the election of Mayor Emily Larson, has me pondering the inextricable
connection and collaboration that exists between the Chamber and the City.
The City and the Chamber were incorporated in the same year.
Consider for a moment how many Duluth mayors the Chamber's leadership has
partnered with since our shared start in 1870. Let's suppose that each mayor
served an average of eight years. This would have the Chamber's leadership
working in partnership with eighteen mayors over the past 145 years.
Most recently, it has been my privilege to work with four of these eighteen
mayors: Mayors Doty, Bergson, Ness and Larson. Each mayor brings to the
leadership position his or her unique set of skills, interests and convictions.
The Chamber enjoyed a positive and constructive working relationship with Mayor
Doty, Mayor Bergson and Mayor Ness.
It is understandable that we anticipate enjoying and benefiting from a positive
partnership with Mayor Elect Larson. In a recent Duluth News Tribune editorial,
Mayor Larson expressed that Duluth's future depends on applying a collective
determination to meet the needs and opportunities of being a changing city. She
indicated that neighborhoods and organizations need to work together to create
Duluth's path to prosperity. Well said, Mayor Larson.
Duluth clearly is advancing briskly and purposefully on our shared path to
prosperity. Yet, Duluth's success has been hard fought. It has required the
dogged determination, perseverance and unshakable optimism displayed by those
Duluthians who have gone before us. They advanced our Zenith City during times
when our community's path to prosperity was far less clear, and when it was far
more difficult to traverse.
The sun is bright and high above Duluth's magnificent ridgeline. The wind
rolling in off the Greatest of the Great Lakes is at our back. Employment is at
a record high. Investment in Duluth is at a record high. Duluth's positive
reputation as an enchanted place is being embraced across the nation.
145 years of our foremothers and forefathers preparing the way for us has
brought us to this ideal position. Their shared collaborative effort has us
here. It is wise to press forward while honoring this collaborative spirit. The
Chamber intends to do precisely this.
We will embrace our partnership with our talented new mayor.
In support,
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