The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce held a special general membership meeting Tuesday to try to finally get their current name of the organization recognized in Ottawa.
The meeting was called so the Chamber can officially operate under its current name, the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce, that it has operated under publicly ever since the Battleford and North Battleford Chambers merged in 1978.
A vote was taken that year to merge the two Chambers into one organization. But for some reason the name change to Battlefords Chamber of Commerce was never officially recorded with Industry Canada.
The meeting Tuesday was part of the process to get the situation finally resolved. The first vote was to petition Industry Canada for the name change from "North Battleford Chamber of Commerce" to "Battlefords Chamber of Commerce" that should have happened years earlier. The second vote called for a change of boundaries from the original electoral districts of 1906 to the current service area that includes the City of North Battleford, the Town of Battleford and the RMs of Battle River, North Battleford and Meota.
Both votes carried unanimously. Now that these two resolutions are approved, the plan is to get on with the process of sending in all the documentation to Ottawa to officially correct the records. The whole process is expected to last another six months.
