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Mission Statement:
"The Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce's Mission is to promote, enhance, improve and expand economic & social livability on the central Tillamook Coast!"
History:
The Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce has been in existence and operating as a part of the community since May 5, 1931.
“Tillamook County Chamber of Commerce” was incorporated in 1931, and was located in the Pioneer Museum building. It was convenient to visitors who dropped by the museum to look at the artifacts of early day Tillamook County. The organization’s purpose was promotion of the entire county community—ALL the cheese, ALL the breeze, etc.
Special and standing Chamber committees were continually busy on various projects-promoting industry, assisting local city and county government, encouraging civic improvements and the like. The County Chamber had a leading part in building the “Morning Star” during Oregon’s 1959 Centennial, and the 1961 Rose Festival parade entry. It prepared and manned booths at the state fair and the PIE at Portland each fall.
The office served as a substitute Better Business Bureau with affiliations with the Portland and national BBB, and performed various handyman chores as reproducing city and county maps for local use.
The chamber remained a County Chamber until August 1987 when the membership voted to change to an area chamber and renamed the organization Tillamook Chamber of Commerce to include Bay City, Netarts, Oceanside and Tillamook. The present mission statement was drawn up and the bylaws amended.
The location of the Chamber office was first in the City Hall, then in the Tillamook Hotel. In 1946 space was leased in the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and remained there until the need for more parking became critical. In 1982 the Tillamook County Creamery Association offered a lease for a parcel of land and a new building was erected by volunteers and dedicated in August of 1983. Due to every increasing requests from both visitors and the business community a building expansion was completed in 1995 and doubling the size of the facility.
The Chamber is governed by the Board of Directors, made up of 15 members elected at large, who are dedicated to making the greater Tillamook area prosper. The Board is the policy-making body of the Chamber. They initiate and implement the program of work and projects as services for the membership.
As business grows and tourism increases, the programs expand and the Chamber will grow with it. The Chamber office and visitor center is open 7 days a week in the summer, and 6 days a week in the winter to meet the demands of our members.
Tillamook Chamber Of Commerce
Mission Statement:
"The Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce's Mission is to promote, enhance, improve and expand economic & social livability on the central Tillamook Coast!"
History:
The Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce has been in existence and operating as a part of the community since May 5, 1931.
“Tillamook County Chamber of Commerce” was incorporated in 1931, and was located in the Pioneer Museum building. It was convenient to visitors who dropped by the museum to look at the artifacts of early day Tillamook County. The organization’s purpose was promotion of the entire county community—ALL the cheese, ALL the breeze, etc.
Special and standing Chamber committees were continually busy on various projects-promoting industry, assisting local city and county government, encouraging civic improvements and the like. The County Chamber had a leading part in building the “Morning Star” during Oregon’s 1959 Centennial, and the 1961 Rose Festival parade entry. It prepared and manned booths at the state fair and the PIE at Portland each fall.
The office served as a substitute Better Business Bureau with affiliations with the Portland and national BBB, and performed various handyman chores as reproducing city and county maps for local use.
The chamber remained a County Chamber until August 1987 when the membership voted to change to an area chamber and renamed the organization Tillamook Chamber of Commerce to include Bay City, Netarts, Oceanside and Tillamook. The present mission statement was drawn up and the bylaws amended.
The location of the Chamber office was first in the City Hall, then in the Tillamook Hotel. In 1946 space was leased in the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and remained there until the need for more parking became critical. In 1982 the Tillamook County Creamery Association offered a lease for a parcel of land and a new building was erected by volunteers and dedicated in August of 1983. Due to every increasing requests from both visitors and the business community a building expansion was completed in 1995 and doubling the size of the facility.
The Chamber is governed by the Board of Directors, made up of 15 members elected at large, who are dedicated to making the greater Tillamook area prosper. The Board is the policy-making body of the Chamber. They initiate and implement the program of work and projects as services for the membership.
As business grows and tourism increases, the programs expand and the Chamber will grow with it. The Chamber office and visitor center is open 7 days a week in the summer, and 6 days a week in the winter to meet the demands of our members.