The Lynwood Chamber of Commerce (LCC) and Congressman Dr. Mervyn Dymally, Retired, are pleased toinvite you to participate in its first Business Economic Seminar focusing on President Barack Obama’sEconomic Stimulus Package, and how it impacts small businesses. You will join prominent business andpolitical leaders from the state and federal levels who will offer their views relative to the economic stimulusand what small businesses can do to benefit from it. Congressman Dymally will co-chair the conference.Several businesses; small and large, in Lynwood and neighborhing cities have been invited to the seminar.We expect scores of business owners, local community and political leaders to attend. The event will beginat 10 a.m. on Friday, April 30, 2010, in Bateman Hall, 11330Bullis Road, Lynwood, California 90262. Adetailed agenda of program will be forwarded to you following receipt of your confirmed attendance.As you know, since the economic crisis occurred, businesses, expecially the smaller entrepreneurs, havebeen severely affected as a consequence, causing many to close, others to lay off employees, and some todown-size their operations, which, in turn,adversely affect the economic and employment growth the ObamaAdministration and Congress have beenworking hard to reinvigorate. Businesses in the Southeast Los Angelesarea, in particular, and Lynwood in specific, have been experiencing an unprecedented decline in theireconomic wellbeing and are struggling to survive. The economic decline also trickles down to the largerresidential communities and families, as numerous working adults in these households face the grim realityof losing their jobs, and watch as their sole means of economic support vanish.Scores of these businesses have been approaching the Lynwood Chamber of Commerce, inquiring as towhether there are programs andeconomic assistance that the federal and state governments have enacted toaid them in their hour of desperate need. Their anguish has supplied the impetus for the Chamber to initiatethis conference to which you have been invited. Within the city of Lynwood, there are more than 3,500businesseswith physical addresses here. Additionally, there are thousands of other companies that arelicensed to work in the City, but are not physically located in Lynwood.As the sole non-profit,commercial organization empowered by its 501 (C) (6) status from the IRS, theChamber represents these businesses in the City by advocating, promoting, and bringing vital resources tothem to help boost their economic success and prosperity. These resources would include the organizationof events through which businesses could gather essential information that would help them to achieve theirgoals and objectives.The Chamber, since its founding in 1946, has been assisting businesses organize, grow and expand theireconomies and the City’s through numerous business opportunities, financial and economic developmentprogram