Learn to Network
Business Networking International (BNI) Sound Networking meets Each Wednesday 7:00 – 8:30 AM at Frog Ponds Cafe
Meet local business people and find out how networking is one of the most effective methods for marketing your business.
Visitors are always welcome, just call ahead to let us know you are coming 519-371-2622.Business Enterprise Centre Workshops
Basics of Bookkeeping (Three part workshop)
Tuesday September 19th and 26th and Tuesday October 3rd, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Business Enterprise Centre Training Room $95 (HST included)
Facilitator: Jane Gallagher
This three part Bookkeeping Workshop will allow you to use the tools and information to confidently understand your financial statements and your own books. Class size is limited to 8 to allow a hands-on, individual learning opportunity for everyone.Business Enterprise Centre Workshops
How to “Really” Start a Business
Wednesday September 20th, 9:00 am – 11:30 am, Bayshore Community Centre
FREE – Pre-registration is required
Facilitator: Cliff Bilyea
Discover the basic steps involved in starting a business, evaluating your idea, determining your market and basic rules and regulations. Attending the is workshop is mandatory for anyone applying to the Starter Company Plus Program. Business Enterprise Centre Workshops
Introduction to Quick Books (Two part workshop)
Tuesday October 17th and 24th, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Business Enterprise Centre Training Room, $80 (HST Included)
Instructor: Jane Gallagher
The first session of Quick Books provides participants with an overview and access to a trial version of the program. The second session will be questions and answers to address specific issues. Knowledge of basic bookkeeping principles is required. Limited to 8, you must bring your own laptop. (This workshop does not cover the online version of Quick Books)
3 Responses
Remove all development charges to encourage industry, business and new residential to be built. Each new home created in Owen Sound creates about $3,000 in taxes each year. Owen Sound had 3 residential permits in the first 7 months of this year while Georgian Bluffs had 28; 9 times more and Meaford had 11; almost 4 times more.
We are doing something wrong, very wrong and I want a special new committee of Council to meet with developers to find out what is our Owen Sound problem.
My question to Peter Lemon is, why would we want to build more houses when there is a surplus of under-valued houses already? New housing supply will compete with the supply of the existing stock and further diminish the value of existing homes and cost tax revenue by lowering their market value.
This seems to me to be the wrong kind of growth. In any case, it isn’t population growth we need, it is growth in prosperity and well-being for those already here, especially for those near the bottom.
Furthermore, all development costs the city money to service. Developers should pay these costs, or we will have to pay for them.
Developer have and will pay the full cost of city services both on and off their site. Further each new home contributes about 3 thousand dollars in new taxes to the City. Over the past several years we have constructed less new residential than the wearing out of our housing stock plus demolitions.