Alamance Chamber Updates 2026 Legislative Agenda, Highlights Workforce, Transportation Priorities
Alamance Chamber held its 2026 Legislative Breakfast at Alamance Community College on Feb. 13, approved slight updates to its legislative agenda and launched a new Advocacy blog feature.
Alamance County Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual 2026 Legislative Breakfast at Alamance Community College on Friday, Feb. 13, running 7:30–10:00 a.m., to present an overview of the 2026 Legislative Agenda and hear from state lawmakers and regional policy experts. The Chamber also introduced a new Advocacy feature within its blog and said its Board recently approved slight updates to the legislative agenda.
“Sarah Prencipe and Bryan Fox – our advocacy partners at Lumin Strategies – presented our updated positions and hosted a panel with Senator Amy Galey and Representative Dennis Riddell,” the Chamber wrote in its event recap, summarizing the morning program that combined an agenda overview with a featured panel of state representatives and local industry experts.
As leading members of their respective Chambers, Senator Galey and Representative Riddell “thanked the Chamber for continuing to lead critical advocacy for the business community, encouraged us to remain involved individually and collectively, and previewed a light ‘short session’ starting in April though we will be prepared to weigh in on the inevitable unforeseen issues,” the Chamber account reported.
Workforce development was a central theme at the breakfast. Wendy Walker-Fox of the Piedmont Triad Regional Council provided the workforce update and the Chamber framed the policy priority this way: “Both issues remain regional priorities, with workforce development aggregating resources from childcare and K-12 education through community colleges and higher education.” The presentation linked workforce strategy in Alamance County to pipelines spanning childcare, K-12, Alamance Community College and higher education partners.
Transportation policy drew focused attention from Tony Lathrop, who Parker Poe described as the event’s transportation speaker and noted that Tony “provides strategic counsel on transportation and public mobility planning, funding, and finance, as well as on zoning, land use, and economic development connected to major transportation corridors.” The Chamber emphasized the sector’s policy tradeoffs, saying transportation must continue to “balance project delivery and rising costs with disaster recovery and long term funding sustainability.”
The breakfast ran with support from nine corporate sponsors listed by the Chamber: Alamance Community College, Bobbitt, Cone Health, Glen Raven, Inc., Labcorp, Samet Corporation, First National Bank, Gilliam Bell Moser, LLP, and National OnDemand. Event logistics on the Chamber’s event page included a Set a Reminder function with options for 1 Day, 2 Days, 3 Days or 1 Week reminders and required Captcha validation for submission.
With a short legislative session previewed to begin in April, the Chamber positioned itself to continue advocacy for Alamance County business and infrastructure priorities and signaled readiness to respond to unforeseen issues during the session.
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