Good

evening, call to order this meeting of the super committee and agenda review committee meeting of the borough of Dormont February 23rd, 2026.

Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I

pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which is one nation under God with liberty and justice for

all.

I

understand there are any registered comments for this evening.

That is correct.

Before we go into presentations, just real quickly, I wanted to acknowledge that this is not Daniel Conlin.

This is Ashley Pachowski from the firm, and we appreciate her being here this evening with Daniel being out of town.

So the first item on the agenda is actually a presentation from Mandy Pryor, a Southwest Regional Chamber of Commerce.

So I invite you to come forward to the microphone.

Go ahead and

go.

Thanks for pointing out that these bend down a

little.

Hi everybody.

We are a regional chamber about a hundred years old, located in Collier Township.

And I just wanted to come in today, talk to you guys a little bit about the borough of Dormont and how we can help you guys to help bring in businesses, support your community, and give you more of a voice out there in the South Hills, as I know it's a big area, and there's lots of people here, and we want to help you guys attract new people.

So just a little bit about us.

We're as I said, about a hundred years old, and we operate four to five different events per month.

We offer ribbon cuttings, we offer support to our businesses as well as our communities.

And we really have a great uh group behind us in terms of ambassadors.

So if you guys were to come on under us, then you would have an ambassador there that would focus on your area and your area alone.

And that person would be able to help support your businesses, find out what's going on in the community and help not only tell us what's going on, but also we can help share that information with you so that if you're looking for different things and different ways to support your businesses, we're able to help.

Additionally, we do several municipal activities throughout the year.

We have our big community outlook, which is in May.

And that basically gives you a voice in sharing with the community what's going on in doormart, your future plans, things that are hurdles for your community, and basically gives you the floor to say whatever you want to get out to our audience, uh, both members, people from the public as well as other townships and boroughs, as well as partner with those townships and boroughs as well, which I think is really important.

We did just launch the Meet the Officials too, which is an opportunity to bring council commissioners to our uh an event at a very easy-paced, easygoing event just to meet each other and see if there's any connections that they can make to help progress their areas.

And then we also do municipal photos, which we've done on technology, we've had grant workshops, and we plan on doing how to market your storefronts for both commercial developers as well as real estate agents on municipalities to come in and say, hey, we have these vacant spaces, how do we fill them and how do we make

it

you know viable community with all those areas that kind of are the source spots for everyone?

Uh additionally, you'll be on our main page in our premier municipality area, which will highlight your your borough as well as information about you, your logo, your link.

So people can click through as they're looking into the area, looking to move a business in, they can find you.

And then additionally, we have uh several ways to support you otherwise, whether it's helping with ribbon cuttings, helping to bring events in, helping to bring members in, helping to drive businesses to Dormont and kind of present to you guys uh a way to help increase flow and kind of get more eyes on the Dormont area.

So I'm not sure if you guys have any questions.

I have the floor open as I'm sure you've heard a little bit about us, but I'm sure there's more that uh you want to

know.

How many other uh municipalities do you work with?

We're not about

them

right

now.

What are some of the types of things that you do for specifically for businesses and then communities that we that the borough would potentially be able to tap into?

Yeah, so I mean we obviously we have ribbon cutting, so any time that a business opens, we'll probably contact them and reach out, see if they want to do a ribbon cutting, contact you at the borough, invite you, invite dignitaries along, and then splash it all over our social place pages.

So they get more eyes on the business opening.

It helps drive traffic down here, then hosting obviously business events driving our members down here, as well as if a business needs something.

So that could be anything from plumbing to electrical and trying to find just different needs of helping to support them, as well as offer partnerships between different businesses.

So I try to keep my eyes and ears open on what could be a good partnership.

Say we have, I'm just gonna use a plumbing company, um, an electrician, and obviously a plumber can't do an electrician job, an electrician can't do a plumber's job.

So they would be a good referral for one another if they're in a home and there's things going wrong to kind of refer back to each other and help drive their both their businesses at the same time.

How many members do you have and what's your reach on some of your social platforms since you just listed those as oh goodness, I have

to think of that.

Um 450 members.

So we've been rapidly growing over the past few years.

We've really have a good ambassador program and um outreach program that's been going on that's really helped to bring in new members and keep everybody active within the chamber.

As far as social media, we are on LinkedIn, um LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

I would say my LinkedIn page is probably more popular than the Southwest Regional LinkedIn page.

I think I have about 5,000 followers on there.