To effectively advocate on issues of interest to the business community, the Chamber has created guiding principles that provide a framework for defining the Chamber’s position on public policy issues.

The Hollywood Chamber: Leading Legislative Advocate
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is one of the leading business organizations in Los Angeles County and is the premiere business organization for the Hollywood Community, representing more than 1,000 businesses.

As the most important business organization in the Hollywood community, it is the Chamber’s role to create and develop policies that will provide for effective pro-business legislative and local policy representation to our membership. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Action Committee will utilize the following principles to develop policy recommendations to the Board of Directors and to articulate positions on behalf of Chamber membership when meeting with elected officials:

• Stimulate economic development by prioritizing business retention and growth in the region.
• Recognize and promote Entertainment, Tourism, and Healthcare industries as regionally based core industries.
• Acknowledge Hollywood’s regional and national interdependence in the global economy and the importance of addressing those regional and national economic policies and issues impacting the Hollywood business community.
• Demand for accountability in all forms of government operations and where applicable seek periodic measurement of programs.
• Seek efficiency in government by allowing for flexibility in program management by granting authority to managers, but make them accountable for departments or agencies’ productivity by creating incentive-based benefits and by allowing for executive heads to remove managerial subordinates when appropriate.
• Ensure all government agencies maintain policies that promote an efficient and equitable market economy. Government programs and regulations should be developed to correct market inefficiencies and not to further complicate existing market inadequacies.
• Support an educational system that prepares students to meet market demands.
• Promote quality of life that ensures the Hollywood community will remain an attractive place to live, work, and do business.
• Develop a shared regional vision that includes the strong participation of the private sector to address problems.
• Encourage the cooperation among government agencies and reduce the proliferation of additional regulatory agencies.
• View the private sector as a partner in serving the needs of the public.
• Ensure regulations on business are kept to a minimum and support policies that do not put area businesses at a competitive disadvantage.
• Encourage federal, state, and local levels of government to recognize and address the harsh economic realities in the Hollywood community such as high unemployment and poverty by developing targeted economic development approaches like enterprise zones and empowerment zones encompassing the Hollywood community.
• Support tax policies that ensure regional competitiveness for all industries.
• Advance economic development in the region by promoting the creation and growth of Business Improvement Districts.
• Promote infrastructure necessary to support commerce and business growth such as sound regionally-based transportation policies.