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Chan Presents CALED “Award of Excellence” Yuba
County’s Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre and West Sacramento’s
Raley Field shared top recognition at the California Association of
Local Economic Development (CALED) annual awards luncheon in Monterey
April 12 by receiving CALED’s prestigious “Award of Excellence”
plaques in the category of “Development Partnership.” Nelson
Chan, Director of the Sacramento regional Technology, Trade and
Commerce Agency, was on hand in Marysville Tuesday morning, April 24,
to present CALED’s “Award of Excellence” plaques to the Yuba
County Board of Supervisors and the Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre.
County board chairman Hal Stocker accepted the award on behalf of Yuba
County. “This
kind of recognition puts Yuba County on the map,” stated Mr. Stocker
as he received the plaque. The California Technology, Trade and
Commerce Agency nominated Yuba County’s “Music in the
Entertainment Triangle” Amphitheatre project to CALED for
consideration in its 2000 Award for Excellence program. “Two
significant tourism-related projects in Northern California are
represented in the successful construction and opening of the
Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre and Raley Field,” said Yuba County
Economic Development Coordinator John Fleming. “Both generate
considerable interest and economic benefits for their respective areas
and it is fitting that both received top recognition from CALED.”
West Sacramento’s Raley Field received CALED’s “Grand Prize
Winner” designation for its submittal in CALED’s “Development
Partnership” category.
This
award makes the second state recognition received for the amphitheatre
partnership. In 1999, the
amphitheatre received a State Trade and Commerce Agency Zone
Excellence Award for the “success story of the year.”
According to Mary Hansen, Zone Manager and also part of the
economic development team that developed the award documents, “The
Amphitheatre partnership continues through its relationship with the
Yuba-Sutter One Stop agencies and the Enterprise Zone by providing
hundreds of new jobs for the local community.
This partnership has resulted in not only new job
opportunities, but significant tax credits for the Amphitheatre.” CALED
was organized in 1980 by a small number of state, local and federal
economic developers to provide a forum for building a network of local
economic development organizations in California. Today there are over
300 established economic development departments and agencies in the
State. Some of the first shows announced for the Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre’s 2001 season include Tom Petty, Rod Stewart, and Aerosmith. Updated concert schedules can be found online at www.sacvalleyamp.com.
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