Mayors Stevens and Kleinschmidt will be among this year’s ICV attendees.

This Sunday, about a hundred local elected officials and business, nonprofit, and other community leaders will trek to Athens, Georgia for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce‘s Inter-City Visit.

The ICV takes place every other year: attendees visit a town that’s similar to Chapel Hill and learn about how that community deals with its own issues. (The last trip, in 2012, went to Bloomington, Indiana; previous trips have visited Asheville, Madison, and Ann Arbor.) The idea is to bring home ideas that might lead to better policies in our town; it’s also a networking opportunity as well.

Attendees this year include UNC Chancellor Carol Folt and the mayors of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough.

Kristen Smith of the Chamber of Commerce spoke about the ICV on WCHL with Aaron Keck – who’s going to be one of this year’s attendees. (They also discussed the Chamber’s Primetime Business Expo – which took place Thursday at the Sheraton Chapel Hill – and Smith recognized this year’s inductees into the Chamber’s Business Hall of Fame.)

 

This year’s Inter-City Visit will run through Tuesday.