About the Business Advisory Committee

The Charlotte City Council has tasked the Business Advisory Committee with:

• Providing recommendations and advice to City Council on ways the City can help business in Charlotte, with a particular emphasis on small businesses.
  
  
• Providing a forum for businesses to raise issues, discuss and have input into City policy responses to these issues.
  
  
• Providing input and recommendations on the City’s Economic Development Focus Area Plan, with a particular emphasis on small business development; city contracting programs; revitalization of distressed business districts; business recruitment, retention and expansion efforts; public/private partnership projects; and business customer service.
  
  
• Keeping City Council and the City’s Key Business Executives abreast of conditions in the business community and how these conditions might affect business-government relations and needs for public services.
  
  
  

Meetings are typically held on the third Friday of each month at 8:00 am. in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. To learn when the Committee is next scheduled to meet visit the city-wide meeting calendar.