About the Bunkie Chamber of Commerce
Join the Chamber!
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A Chamber of Commerce is borne into existence to give expression to the businessman’s natural instincts of improving his market place and community. Your Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working to build a healthy economy and to improve the quality of life in your community.
As your chamber works to accomplish these goals, it wears many hats: economic developer and planner; tourist information center; business spokesperson; economic counselor and teacher; government relations’ specialist; human resource adviser; and public relations practitioner. Its strength lies in attracting the greatest number of firms into membership, thereby creating a pool of resources from which can be drawn ideas, talents, energies and finances. These resources are used to solve problems of business management in this Bunkie market place.
A Chamber of Commerce enables businessmen and women to accomplish collectively what no one of them could or would do individually. It gives them a voice in government affairs locally, as well as nationally, in a united effort to improve the overall well being.
Simply stated, your Chamber of Commerce is business and professional people working together to make your community a better place for everyone to live and work.
A Chamber of Commerce is not a department of the city, parish, or state government; a political body, a civic club or professional society; a social service, welfare, or charitable institution; a private advertising, publicity or public relations agency.
Purpose
The overall objective of the Bunkie Chamber of Commerce is to assure progressive, orderly, community development; effective government at all levels; and maintain a high climate for a sound expanding economy.
It is the CONSCIENCE and the WILL of the community – the conscience to seek out the community faults and the collective will of its members to overcome them
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The Chamber of Commerce organization is unique. It is a partner to every business and every citizen. You belong in it as long as you are in business in our community for you are benefiting from its activities, and should shoulder a part of the operating expenses. What investment is more important to you as a business or professional person and citizen than such a comparatively small one in our progress and prosperity?
You may not have time to answer hundreds of requests for information or help bring an industry into the area, but you know it is being done. It you are unable to support with both time and money, it is especially important for you to financially cooperate with your fellow businessmen who make up various committees and who ARE taking time out from their business to help YOU.
If you are a branch office that proves that your company considers this a good place to do business. This is your home, and you, as a branch, benefit from chamber activity. Possibly you have replaced an independent business that did support the Chamber. This is all the more reason why you should contract your home office and secure its membership. Your first job should be to make yourself part of the community and the way to do this is by identifying yourself with the leading community organization.
Perhaps you do your business outside of our area- but don’t you make full use of our facilities? You wouldn’t call an out-of-town police or fire department, or make use of out-of-town utilities? And aren’t your family, and friends, and interest here? You are part of the community after all, and the Chamber needs your support in its efforts to make it a still better community.
We are not asking you to give away money, but TO MAKE AN INVESTMENT. Your return is the continued growth and prosperity of our area. The membership dues (which are tax deductible under business expense) amount to only pennies a day – such a small amount that you can’t afford not to belong.
The best way to get your business larger is to properly support the Chamber of Commerce…more industries…more residents///more tourists///more people shopping in our community…will mean more business for you. The Chamber is working to promote all of these things(in addition it affords valuable contracts with your fellow citizens and business people).
Make your investment NOW – competing for trade territory, industries, new businesses, better highways, more housing, police protection, education, and everything else that will make them a better, more prosperous and more pleasant place in which to live.
Don’t put it off…”later” may be too late.
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Bunkie Chamber of Commerce
Cynthia Dauzat, Secretary
110 Northwest Main Street
P.O. Box 70
Bunkie, LA 71322-1630
(318)346-2575
Tues - Thurs, 9AM - 2PM
2022 Board of Directors
Madelyn Jarrell, President
The Cottonport Bank
(318) 346-4991
Thomas Frank, Vice President
CLECO
(318) 308-1243
Margie Melancon, Treasurer
Melancon Funeral Home
(318) 346-7664
Clara Leigh Soileau
Progressive Tractor
(318) 240-4655
Crisdensa Compton
Jo Jo’s Flowers
(318) 447-8162
Brad Lapoint
Lapoint Eye Clinic
(318) 240- 3896
Amber LaPrairie
(318) 729-2080
Tina Juneau
Bunkie General Hospital
(318) 452-7515
Crisdensa Compton
Jo Jo’s Flowers
(318) 447-8162
Joshua Mayeux
Lyon’s Market
(337) 793-6794
Shannon Fender
Red River Bank
(318) 359-0647
Become a Member Today
The Bunkie Chamber of Commerce welcomes your membership to the chamber. The chamber wants to property promote your company. Please complete the form below and we will contact you as soon as possible to complete your new membership!
DUES SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2022
ANNUAL DUES INVESTMENT
Businesses, Non Profits (with paid staff), and Home Based Businesses
Single Person Business $75
1 – 9 employees $100
10 – 50 employees $150
50+ employees $200
Financial Institutions $350
Professional Firms Individual $150
Professional Firm Partnership $200
Hospitals $250
Churches $50
Civic Organizations $50
Individuals* $50
Farmers $100
*Individuals are for retirees, students, and people who do not own their own businesses.
Payment Schedules: 2022 annual investments are due by 2/15/2022. Investment due payments must be annual payment only which will become due by the 1st of each year as the notice will be sent in November each year.
Members of a Chamber of Commerce are actually stockholders in the community’s future. They are investing in an organization which is creating new dollars for the local community. It is up to them to decide exactly how large a piece of this new economic pie will ultimately show up in their own sales.