Colorado Politics

Denver Metro Chamber selling seats to its Jan. 4 legislative preview

Registration is open but seats will fill up fast for the legislative preview and who’s-who confab put on by the Denver Metro Chamber of the Commerce, the Colorado Competitive Council and the Denver Business Journal.

The fifth annual breakfast is Jan. 4 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center.

You can register by clicking here.

Tickets for chamber members are $85 each, and $100 for non-members. A table is $1,200. The event is early on a Thursday. Registration begins at 7 a.m., then the program follows from 7:30 to 9 a.m.

Ed Sealover, the statehouse reporter for the Denver Business Journal, will moderate again this year.

House and Senate Republican and Democratic leadership will set the table for the session. The lineup of speakers includes House Speaker Crisanta Duran, D-Denver; House Minority Leader Patrick Neville. R-Castle Rock; Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Cañon City; and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver.

Kelly Brough, the chamber’s president and chief executive (who, btw, was Gov. John Hickenlooper’s chief of staff when he was Denver’s mayor), will talk about the chamber’s legislative priorities this year. The list is expected to include addressing the rising cost of health care, improving the financial soundness of the public-employees’ retirement system and promoting workforce development for young people, as well as expanding the uses for recycled water.

The 150-year-old Denver Metro Chamber has a membership that includes 3,000 businesses employing 300,000 employees, it boasts, as well as acting as “an effective advocate for small and large businesses.”

 


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