Meets the 4th Wednesday of each month at 8 a.m.
Chair: Heather Dlhopolsky, Linowes and Blocher LLP
Co-Chair: Eric Gates, Apex Home Loans
Staff Liaison: Ginanne Italiano

The Economic Development & Government Relations Committee has a proactive approach to ensuring that business needs are being met in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Friendship Heights and throughout Montgomery County. The Committee develops a proactive legislative agenda, monitoring all issues affecting living, working and doing business in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase community, working with the county's leading decision-makers. 

This is for you if you want to help shape the Chamber's economic development and public policy.

Agenda/Guest Speakers: Eric Gilliland, General Manager, Capital Bikeshare and colleagues will explain this successful program and what it takes to implement it in local jurisdictions. David Dabney, Executive Director of the Bethesda Urban Partnership will report on the efforts underway in Montgomery County, and specifically in Bethesda, to make this program a reality.