The ANNANDALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Businesses, industries, and professionals working together to maintain a favorable business climate and contribute to the quality of life that makes Fairfax County a special place. It is a voluntary organization of approximately 200 members who are concerned with helping business prosper in a manner consistent and compatible with the best long-term interests and goals of the community.

The Chamber's Board of Directors and its members work toward and place great emphasis on the following:

• Quality Government : To work with county and state government to encourage good management practices at every level, including sensible budgets, rational decision making, and advanced planning for public facilities.
• Fiscal Responsibility : To improve the tax base to help pay for higher quality community services and to end discriminatory anti-business taxation.
• Beautification : To participate in "Annandale Beautification Days" and to work to beautify Annandale by encouraging and supporting good architecture, more landscaping in the central area, landscaping medians on main thoroughfares, and removal of overhead wires.
• Alliance for Progress : To work with civic, service, and business organizations in addition to individuals to improve the quality of life in our community.
• Public Safety: To work closely with the Fairfax County Police Department in order to ensure every resident and every person who works in Annandale safety while at work, at home, and traveling by foot or by car through the Annandale community. To bring to the attention of state and local officials the need for additional traffic lights and signs, and better roads throughout the area.
• Revitalization : To encourage the revitalization of neglected buildings and properties into well-designed, comprehensively planned, mixed-use development.
• Benefits and Jobs for the Young: To encourage opportunities for young people by working for better schools. To support community-sponsored programs that include music, arts and crafts, scouting, athletics and youth organizations. To provide job opportunities for young adults.

The Annandale Chamber of Commerce invites all interested citizens to join in making Annandale and Fairfax County an even better place in which to live, work and play.

Chamber of Commerce Officers and Board of Directors
July 2009 - June 2010