BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T130550Z DTSTART:20190927T113000Z DTEND:20190927T130000Z UID:20190927T113000Z-20190927T130000Z-2102@business.delaware.gov SUMMARY:Policy Makers Breakfast with New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer DESCRIPTION:Join the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce for a Polic y Makers Breakfast with New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer.\nIn hi s first 60 days in office\, Meyer reduced government spending by 3% an d passed a $284 million budget through County Council without amendmen t. In his first year\, Meyer also attracted Del Monte Foods to build i ts largest fruit and vegetable distribution facility in the country\, saved county taxpayers over $2 million through farmland preservation s trategies\, announced the most comprehensive program in the county's h istory to reduce vacant homes\, equipped firefighters in the county wi th life-saving Narcan and drafted and signed new law that immediately facilitated investment that will more than double the state's solar en ergy production capacity.\n\nPrior to becoming County Executive\, Meye r worked as a math teacher\, an attorney\, a diplomat in Iraq\, an eco nomic advisor to Governor Jack Markell\, and started two successful bu sinesses. A student of Brandywine School District Schools and Wilmingt on Friends School\, he is a graduate of Brown University and Universit y of Michigan Law School and is fluent in Swahili.\n\nAdmission: $25 f or Chamber members\, $35 for non-members\, $15 for Ambassadors\n\nClic k here for registration and information.\n \n\nJoin us as he shares hi s vision for the County and how he will take us there. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce for a Policy Makers Breakfast with New Castle County Executiv e Matt Meyer.
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\nJoin us as he shares his vision for the Co unty and how he will take us there.
\n URL:https://business.delaware.gov/events/policy-makers-breakfast-with- new-castle-county-executive-matt-meyer/ ATTACH:https://business.delaware.gov/events/policy-makers-breakfast-wi th-new-castle-county-executive-matt-meyer/ LOCATION:Hilton Wilmington Christiana\, 100 Continental Drive\, Newark END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR