The heads of Prince George's three major business organizations will not be among those speaking at this Monday's public meeting on the state of the downtown.
Instead, Downtown Prince George, Prince George Chamber of Commerce and Gateway Business Improvement Association are asking that the City adhere to their original request and let them appear as a delegation at council's Dec. 16 meeting.
In November, the Chamber hosted a meeting of local businesses on the issue with participation from Downtown Prince George and The Gateway. The groups are in the process of taking the feedback gathered at the meeting and using it to develop specific policy recommendations. But before taking them to council, they want to run them by their members and plan to have a meeting with them by no later than Dec. 11.
"Given that our organizations were given three business days notice of Council's December 2nd meeting, the timeframe does not allow our organizations time to re-engage those impacted to discuss our proposed policy recommendations, and make any necessary amendments as we had committed to do," DPG president Eoin Foley, Chamber president Lorna Wendling and The Gateway preside Ken Leboe said in a letter sent to City Hall on Thursday.
While representatives from the three plan to attend Monday's meeting "we are not, however, in a position to participate as a presenter."
Combined, the organizations represent more than 1,200 businesses and property owners.
