Tracy Feher is the new incoming chair of the P.A. and District Chamber of Commerce. (screenshot/chamber website) 

By Glenn Hicks

business

New P.A. Chamber chair to focus on collaboration

Oct 1, 2020 | 5:00 PM

The new incoming chair of the Prince Albert and District Chamber of Commerce for the year ahead is promising the diverse voices of local businesses will be heard. Partnerships with the city and region will also be paramount.

Tracy Feher, who runs a small financial consulting and investment business, Feher Financial Inc., comes to the position amid continued stress and uncertainty for business due to the COVID pandemic. She has been on the chamber board for six years and calls herself a very collaborative person.

“I have no personal agendas, I simply want to lead the chamber or chair this board in a direction, however that looks for the board,” Feher told paNOW.

In stressing the chamber’s primary mandate is advocacy, she said the board of 14 members would be listening very hard as concerns remain around the global pandemic.

“Folks are struggling with taxes, how to stay open, what the rules look like,” she said. “We are listening hard. Everyone has different opinions, and we’re trying to do what our members, our businesses need, pay attention to them, and to be the voice of what folks need.”

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Feher said being a partner with the city as well as the Prince Albert Regional Economic Development Alliance (PAREDA), which includes the city, regional RMs and local First Nations representatives, is “extremely important.”

“We need to work together with all of the stakeholders and we absolutely want to be a part of the coming together, part of solutions and to engage in those conversations,” she said.

Feher was inducted into the chair position at Wednesday’s Annual General Meeting along with three new incoming directors: Jessica Gale with the Mont St Joseph Foundation, Michael Scissons with the Prince Albert Raiders, and Jeff Stumpf of Prince Albert Alarm Ltd.

Asked if the upcoming municipal election and a possible change of council would be a further layer of complexity the chamber could do without at this time, Feher said that would not be the case.

“The chamber is always looking to be advocates but also partners, and no matter what happens with council, we see it as an opportunity to collaborate and to continue to make things better,” she said.

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glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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