BBUSINESSTHE USINESS MAY/JUNE 2020 CONNECTING THE BUSINESS A BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF AND RESIDENTIAL THE WHITTIER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VOL. 26 NO. 2 FOCUS COMMUNITIES. Whittier Chamber provides COVID-19 business resources all on one page Since 1914, the Whittier Area Business Strategies • Nonprofi ts: Continuity Planning for all healthy and safely able to connect Chamber of Commerce has committed CARES Act COVID-19 (and Other Disruptions) again,” she concluded. to be their members’ resource of Credible Sources Remote Working Tools Please follow us on social media information. While staying safer at home, • CalChamber School District Closures @whittierchamber, subscribe to our it’s pertinent to be informed with credible • California Department of Public Health Temporary Ordinances weekly e-newsletter, and visit our and reliable sources. As a champion for a • California Employment Development Quick Guide to Whittier Chamber website, whittierchamber.com, frequently thriving business community, the Whittier Department Food Members for current and updated information. Chamber gathered resources crucial • Center for Disease Control and Whittier Chamber Member COVID-19 If you have any additional questions, to business development during the Prevention (CDC) Updates please email us at info@whittierchamber. coronavirus pandemic and safer at home • County of Los Angeles Department of Whittier Chamber Members that are com or call (562) 698 -9554. order. Anyone can fi nd these resources Workforce Development, Aging and Open for Business all on one web page. It is updated daily as Community Services (WDACS) laws, ordinances, and resources change. • County of Los Angeles Public Health The Whittier Chamber is committed Please review some of the topics • Governor’s Offi ce of Business & to helping its members be successful below and visit the Whittier Chamber Economic Development (GO-Biz) which helps them promote and develop See what’s inside resource page, whittierchamber.com/ • Labor & Workforce Development the economic, cultural and civic welfare covid-19, for detailed information. Agency of Whittier. While closed to the public, page 6 Business Resources • Small Business Association (SBA) staff members are working remotely to BBusinessusiness iinn tthehe ttimeime • ATTN Restaurants: Notice of • The Los Angeles County Economic continue to serve our members. “Due to ooff ZZOOMOOM Regulatory Relief Development Corporation (LAEDC) health and safety concerns associated wwithith DDanielleanielle NNavaava • California Employment Development • U.S. Chamber of Commerce with the COVID-19 crisis, the Whittier Department Work Sharing Program • World Health Organization (WHO) Area Chamber of Commerce is canceling • Centers for Disease Control and Grocery Stores in Whittier all meetings, programs, and events Prevention (CDC) Recommendations Helpful Articles through July 1, 2020,” Whittier Chamber page 7 • City of Whittier Updates • Crisis Planning Checklist President/CEO Carol Crosby stated. TTogether,ogether, wwee aarere • County of Los Angeles Updates • Here’s What to Do If You Lose Work “While the news is disappointing, this ##WhittierStrongWhittierStrong • New Visitor Limitations for Pediatric, Due to COVID-19 in California decision was made with an abundance of Labor & Delivery, and End-of-Life • How The American Worker Can Survive caution. More so than ever, the protection Patients Financially During The Next 3 Months of our members, our staff, and the larger • What You Need to Know About Safer • How to Make a Face Mask with 3 community must be our top priority. We at Home Ordinance Household Items look forward to the time when we are Chamber’s Business and Economic Recovery Taskforce prepares for STRONGER ACRO PAID Whittier to get back to business TogetherTogether STANDARD PRESORTED PERMIT # 355 PERMIT Whittier Chamber members, city what our businesses are going to need WHITTIER, CA U.S. POSTAGE officials and key stakeholders have and working to prepare for the recovery been working to develop an economic stage, since day one of this pandemic, recovery strategy for when the Safer the Whittier Chamber of Commerce COVID-19 resources for employers at Home Ordinance is lifted and has been working to educate, connect and workers that can be accessed by businesses prepare to reopen. “We are and promote Whittier businesses and the community. working on a plan to position Whittier for nonprofits in a brand new way. The One of the key components to the a strong recovery once the Coronavirus Chamber has already successfully recovery plan includes fi nding jobs for threat has passed,” explained Chair advocated on behalf of Whittier area our residents. A special Jobs section of the Board Bryan Tabizon from employers, worked to educate local of the Chamber’s website is being Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary. businesses and nonprofi ts about their developed that will be easily accessed “Reopening the community is going to relief options and collaborated one-on- by the community. Getting people back take coordination and communication one with employers to help them access to work is just step one. Education at all levels for it to work and we want all available resources. The Chamber will be another component that the to collaborate with our community has worked closely with elected offi cials Chamber will focus on as employers will partners to fi nd ways to jumpstart our at the county, state and federal levels need to adjust their business plan and economy once we are able to get back to ensure that every possible means budgets with new projections, deal with to business,” Tabizon continued. to assist area employers was being new social distancing protocols and new Whittier, CA 90602 While the Economic Recovery tapped into. In addition, the Chamber employee requirements. The Chamber 8158 Painter Avenue Taskforce is gathering information on has compiled a webpage filled with Continued on page 5 2 WHITTIER BUSINESS FOCUS WWW.WHITTIERCHAMBER.COM MAY/JUNE 2020 2020-2021 Board of Directors A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Bryan Chair of the Board Tabizon, Bryan Tabizon, As we begin our 107th year, the record attendance at our events, Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary Chair of the Board Whittier Area Chamber of Commerce, we connected our business and Chair-Elect along with our businesses, City, and residential communities by publishing Sandra Hahn, Crepes & Grapes Café community residents, whom we could and distributing 70,000 copies of Past Chair not exist without, fi nd ourselves in a “Year our Business Focus newspaper and county, state and federal legislators, Elizabeth Martinez for the History Books.” A drive down Community Resource Magazine and serve as a great resource to our Vice Chair Administration Whittier Boulevard., a shopping and combined, and our member businesses local businesses. Your Chamber has Debra Legan, PIH Health restaurant tour down Greenleaf Avenue, generated and sustained an estimated established a social media infl uence Vice Chair Business Information and a run or bike ride on the Greenway 12,000 local jobs. reaching nearly 85,000 people online RD McDonnell, McDonnell Group Trail, all look and feel very different. In 2020-2021, what success will look and will continue to connect our Vice Chair Community Affairs As our surrounding environment has like for the Whittier Chamber is directly community virtually. Your Chamber Susan Ayala, Athens Services drastically changed, so, too, has the tied to the success of our member has formed an Economic Recovery Vice Chair Finance work and defi nition of success for the businesses and our community. As Taskforce to work with our business and Kwan Lee, Martplan Insurance Whittier Area Chamber of Commerce. in the past, your Chamber has and City leaders in a coordinated effort to Vice Chair Membership In our 2019-2020 year, led by Board will continue to hold a major stake in come out of our Safer at Home Orders Cheryl Estep, State Farm Insurance Chair Elizabeth Martinez, we had our collective success and be on the successfully. More important than ever, Vice Chair Networking & Marketing tremendous success. We saw the forefront of the issues impacting us your Chamber is at work! Trese Childs, DoubleTree Hotel Whittier Chamber at the forefront of the issues the most. COVID-19 has defi nitely Whittier community, we can’t wait to Vice Chair Special Events and initiatives impacting our businesses delivered us a blow. Economically see you! Before you know it we will be Shannon Hammer, and communities the most. Evidence our businesses and community are back again shaking hands at a Wake Shannon G’s Flowers & Clothing Boutique of this can be seen in our participation in what feels like the fi ght of our lives. Up Whittier, shopping local to support DIRECTORS and efforts to fi ght homelessness, the Your Chamber understands the needs our businesses, and connecting in new passage of Measure W, and the Metro of our members and has acted quickly ways. Celia Alvarez, U.S. Bank Gold Line East-corridor expansion to to assemble and distribute credible We will recover. We will rebound. Leighton Anderson, Bewley, Lassleben & Miller Whittier. In addition, we experienced information, advocate for funding with We are Whittier Strong! Judy Bradt, A Special Event Tania Castaneda, Republic Services Carla Chan, Credit Union of Southern California Gregg Durkee, Kaiser Permanente WHAT’S COOL IN YOUR SCHOOL Julia Emerson, So Cal Gas Oscar Hernandez, Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs of Whittier Monica Peters, Hebert Design Werks Nate Ploog, DialMED Home Care Whittier Union High School District Ambassador Chair appoints new Laurie Perschbacher, MAP Property Management Assistant Superintendent STAFF Longtime La Serna High School collaboratively with our administrators, President/CEO principal and Whittier Union educator teachers and staff at every level in her Carol Crosby Ann Fitzgerald has been appointed to new role.” serve as the District’s new assistant Born and raised in Whittier and a Director of Member Programs superintendent of personnel services graduate of Whittier College, Fitzgerald Jessica Reyes effective July 1, 2020.