Bay Area Council
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| Nonprofit | |
| Founded | 1945 in San Francisco, California |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
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Area served
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San Francisco Bay Area |
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Key people
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Jim Wunderman, CEO Michael Covarrubias, Chairman |
| Website | http://www.bayareacouncil.org/ |
Jim Wunderman, CEO
The Bay Area Council is a regional, CEO-led business and economic policy association in San Francisco, founded in 1945, and dedicated to growing the San Francisco Bay Area economy and solving the region's most difficult challenges. At its inception in the post World War II years, members included Wells Fargo, Bank of America, the Transamerica Corporation, Standard Oil of California, Pacific Gas and Electric, Bechtel, Kaiser Industries, Clorox and others. By the late 1940s, the Council was an early environmental watchdog. In the 1950s, the Council promoted a regional mass transit system that eventually became BART.
In 1965, the Council sponsored legislation creating the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. In 1970, they helped to create the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The Bay Area Council aims to create a competitive and sustainable Bay Area through collaboration with regional businesses and civil leaders. Through research and analysis, the organization educates its members and other stakeholders on a variety of issues and implements strategic policy using its relationships with business, civil, and political leaders across the state of California and across the nation. Because the Bay Area is an expansive region with nine counties, the Bay Area Council acts as a liaison between different local bodies and pushes for a region-wide agenda that will assist the Bay's economic viability and maintain its high standard of living.
The first meeting of what California State Reconstruction and Re-Employment Commission Chairman, Alexander R. Heron, called his “Bay Area Team” took place in Berkeley on August 9, 1944. At this meeting, Colonel Heron and his deputy, the renowned builder David Bohannon, addressed a group of business leaders, mayors, city managers, and county supervisors. Representing Governor Earl Warren, Heron and Bohannon urged that “the whole Bay Area pull together to seize on post-war opportunities.”
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