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DUBUQUE INDUSTRIAL BUREAU
DUBUQUE INDUSTRIAL BUREAU. In May 1962 an agreement was announced on a united effort to promote industrial development in Dubuque. The Chamber of Commerce established a Dubuque Industrial Bureau headed by the mayor's nine-member committee and nine representatives of the Chamber's industrial expansion committee. Members had staggered terms, and replacements were selected by the committee.
Heading the Bureau, which would be independent of the Chamber, was a six-member executive committee selected by the full eighteen-member committee. The executive committee would be composed of three people selected by the Chamber's group and three by the mayor's group. A seventh person was to be selected after the executive committee was named. Appointments to the executive committee were for one year with each person's performance evaluated at the end of the year. The executive committee hired an industrial coordinator.
The Bureau submitted a budget to the Chamber which paid for as much of the cost of the organization as it could afford. The balance of the funds needed for special projects like purchasing land would be raised by public subscription. Previously the Chamber had spent approximately one-third of its annual budget on industrial expansion. This amounted to between $15,000 and $20,000 annually.
The 1966 Dubuque City Directory listed 601 Fischer Building.
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Source:
"Chamber, City Unit Combined," Telegraph Herald, May 1, 1962, p. 1