Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Business Journal Q3 2014 | Page 47

Building Cheyenne’s

Future

Strategy Document
Building Cheyenne’s Future, both
the document and the current
• Cheyenne-area recognized as a pro-business, business-friendly, economically vibrant community
efforts by your Chamber of
• Reinvigorate Cheyenne’s core by advocating for and promoting a thriving business culture that embraces use
Commerce, are all about reclaiming
of existing structures
the spirit that Washington portrayed
on that remarkable Christmas night.
Although individuals like those who
made that fateful crossing are not
PRIORITIES
common, I do believe they are still
among us. I believe the fire that
• Adoption of the Building Cheyenne’s Future policies and principles by City and County officials
lit the American Spirit and spread
• Initiate an information/discussion process on the benefits and challenges of a City Manager/City
hope around the world still exists
Administrator form of government that culminates with sending the issue to a vote of the people in 2015
and it is incumbent on each of us
• Launch an “economic gardening” pilot-project
to work hard every day to reclaim
the beliefs that the individual
is of paramount value and that
freedom from too much government
hope. The Hessians didn’t get intervention creates a brilliant future
no one had passed a budget in the
beat at Trenton, Washington didn’t for all of us.
last few years and reelection had
turn the tide in the war and Britain
become the only real goal of the
continued its rule of taxes, fees
elected officials, there was no hope
and restrictions. The dream was
of a political solution. Bureaucrats
killed and Washington retired to an
in multiple departments became
“adult community” near Boca Raton,
consumed with who had control of
Florida.
the military, how was it being paid,
what were the PR ramifications of
is about fostering those
the campaign, what would the army
I get it, this whole little story is silly,
simple beliefs of our
look like in the future, and most
but the lessons are sobering. The
founding fathers right
importantly, did it impact the power
foundation of our nation was to here in Cheyenne, Laramie
of department heads to enforce their
push back on taxes and regulations, County and the State of
will on the people.
believing that when individuals are Wyoming. If we can do
allowed to dream and then pursue them here, perhaps we can
those dreams, wonderful, marvelous be the shot heard around
The weight of regulation, oversight,
things can happen. Over the years,
compliance,
fees,
permits,
the world. Perhaps we
we have weighed those dreams
inspections and negotiations finally
can be remembered as
down with the very taxes, fees and
broke the proverbial camel’s back.
those who crossed the
regulations that the Aristocracy in proverbial Delaware and
Christmas came and went, the new
England tried so desperately to yoke drove America strongly
year passed, the enlisted men went
us with.
home and the volunteers gave up
into the 21st century.

GOALS

Building
Cheyenne’s
Future

Q3 2014 BUSINESS JOURNAL

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