SEQUIM – Hattie Dixon hopes it’ll be easier this year for eastern Clallam County business people to express themselves.
Dixon, president of the Sequim-Dungeness Chamber of Commerce, has uploaded the 2007 BEST test – the Business Enhancement Support Team survey – onto the Web at www.CityofSequim.com.
By clicking on the “Sequim Business Survey 2007” link, anybody, chamber member or not, can take the 31-question survey online.
Among the queries:
The survey also asks respondents to list Sequim’s strengths and weaknesses as a place to run a business.
“We constantly get requests,” at the chamber office, “for relocation packets, and we get questions about what businesses are needed,” Dixon said Thursday.
She wrote the survey after consulting with Sequim city leaders and the Clallam County Economic Development Council.
“Part of the reason we have so many nice, new restaurants, I think, is because people saw opportunities,” in the 2005 BEST survey results, Dixon said.
In that survey, many of the 136 respondents wished for more fine restaurants and retail clothing shops.
In the past year or so, Sequim has seen the closure of several businesses  and the opening of Cedar Creek Cuisine, the Alder Wood Bistro and the Dockside Grill at John Wayne Marina, plus Swank, a clothing boutique on West Washington Street.
