CARES Act small business grant programs
Fellow municipal attorneys,
It is my understanding that the CARES Act funding may be used for expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection with the COVID-19 public health emergency including expenditures related to the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures.
Have any of your municipalities adopted or considered adopting a CARES Act grant program for small businesses?
If so, I would be interested in any sample documents concerning the grant program that you would be willing to share.
In particular, authorizing legislation, grant application forms, and grant award standards.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
Tom Lindsey
Law Director
City of Worthington
374 Highland Avenue
Worthington, OH 43085
614-431-2424 (Office)
614-880-1467 (Fax)
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Tom: yes, the City of McAllen (Texas) has a small business grant and loan program.
One of my (copied) team members can provide you documents.
The "grant" program is being administered by our Chamber of Commerce. The Loan program is being administered by a (pre-existing) third party called "LiftFund" I believe.
My folks will fill in details.
Thanks,
Kevin D. Pagan
City Attorney
City of McAllen, Texas
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Subject: [Disasterrelief] CARES Act small business grant programs
Fellow municipal attorneys,
It is my understanding that the CARES Act funding may be used for expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection with the COVID-19 public health emergency including expenditures related to the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures.
Have any of your municipalities adopted or considered adopting a CARES Act grant program for small businesses?
If so, I would be interested in any sample documents concerning the grant program that you would be willing to share.
In particular, authorizing legislation, grant application forms, and grant award standards.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
Tom Lindsey
Law Director
City of Worthington
374 Highland Avenue
Worthington, OH 43085
614-431-2424 (Office)
614-880-1467 (Fax)
Tom.Lindsey@Worthington.orgmailto:tlindsey@ci.worthington.oh.us
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Bloomington, IN implemented a loan program, some of them forgivable. I will
send you our documents.
Philippa M. Guthrie
Corporation Counsel, Legal Department
City of Bloomington, IN
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Fellow municipal attorneys,
It is my understanding that the CARES Act funding may be used for expenses
associated with the provision of economic support in connection with the
COVID-19 public health emergency including expenditures related to the
provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business
interruption caused by required closures.
Have any of your municipalities adopted or considered adopting a CARES Act
grant program for small businesses?
If so, I would be interested in any sample documents concerning the grant
program that you would be willing to share.
In particular, authorizing legislation, grant application forms, and grant
award standards.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
Tom Lindsey
Law Director
City of Worthington
374 Highland Avenue
Worthington, OH 43085
614-431-2424 (Office)
614-880-1467 (Fax)
Tom.Lindsey@Worthington.org tlindsey@ci.worthington.oh.us
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Subject: RE: CARES Act small business grant programs
Tom: yes, the City of McAllen (Texas) has a small business grant and loan program.
One of my (copied) team members can provide you documents.
The "grant" program is being administered by our Chamber of Commerce. The Loan program is being administered by a (pre-existing) third party called "LiftFund" I believe.
My folks will fill in details.
Thanks,
Kevin D. Pagan
City Attorney
City of McAllen, Texas
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Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 10:59 AM
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Subject: [Disasterrelief] CARES Act small business grant programs
Fellow municipal attorneys,
It is my understanding that the CARES Act funding may be used for expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection with the COVID-19 public health emergency including expenditures related to the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures.
Have any of your municipalities adopted or considered adopting a CARES Act grant program for small businesses?
If so, I would be interested in any sample documents concerning the grant program that you would be willing to share.
In particular, authorizing legislation, grant application forms, and grant award standards.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
Tom Lindsey
Law Director
City of Worthington
374 Highland Avenue
Worthington, OH 43085
614-431-2424 (Office)
614-880-1467 (Fax)
Tom.Lindsey@Worthington.orgmailto:tlindsey@ci.worthington.oh.us
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Here is information on our emergency loan program for small
businesses affected by the COVID emergency. We called the program/fund the
"Rapid Response Fund" or "RRF" program. There are two separate pools of
money depending on the nature of the business--one is our food and beverage
tax receipts fund and the other is the Bloomington Urban Enterprise
Association (BUEA). We have awarded or committed $1.5 million to 58
businesses. Note that our use of the food and beverage tax receipts for
this purpose required approval from the Indiana State Board of Accounts.
Other cities were asking about use of various of their funds for such
programs so the SBOA provided a memo saying that if the municipality had an
approved "policy" in place and the funds proposed to be used were more
appropriate for the purpose than the general fund, they would not take
audit exception. This permission is for the duration of the declared state
emergency only.
The program documents include:
- A link to a draft policy memo which describes the need for the program
and the proposed structure. This was used to explain the need for
appropriating funds from our Food and Beverage tax fund.
https://bloomington.in.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/Economic%20Stabilization%20%26%20Recovery%20-%20COVID-19%20Policy%20Document%20-%20Version%203%20-%20merged%20%281%29.pdf
(Most of our public documents are also on this page:
https://bloomington.in.gov/business)
-
A link to the loan application, which I have also attached below:
https://cfbmcgrants.communityforce.com/Funds/FundDetails.aspx?4A4A334C6C42783238365A586E576E797267706E374E424D735454734A534575575552446E4A61782B2B76694334776A7334686A486B6971565567713349536B -
A PDF of the loan agreement that includes the promissory note and
personal guaranty is attached below. -
Here are links to the process documents and the committee info:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10d_J8QXkuC4SKnDsSW_LMnGb8xdfqAmVX1hnQ1PjHA4/edit?usp=sharing -
A Word doc of the criteria we developed to help the committee evaluate
applications is attached below. -
A Word version of the appropriations ordinance we were required to adopt
is also attached.
Philippa M. Guthrie
Corporation Counsel, Legal Department
City of Bloomington, IN
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Bloomington, IN implemented a loan program, some of them forgivable. I
will send you our documents.
Philippa M. Guthrie
Corporation Counsel, Legal Department
City of Bloomington, IN
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:59 AM Lindsey, Tom Tom.Lindsey@worthington.org
wrote:
Fellow municipal attorneys,
It is my understanding that the CARES Act funding may be used for
expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection
with the COVID-19 public health emergency including expenditures related to
the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of
business interruption caused by required closures.
Have any of your municipalities adopted or considered adopting a CARES
Act grant program for small businesses?
If so, I would be interested in any sample documents concerning the grant
program that you would be willing to share.
In particular, authorizing legislation, grant application forms, and
grant award standards.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
Tom Lindsey
Law Director
City of Worthington
374 Highland Avenue
Worthington, OH 43085
614-431-2424 (Office)
614-880-1467 (Fax)
Tom.Lindsey@Worthington.org tlindsey@ci.worthington.oh.us
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Dear all -
The documents for the program we implemented may be found here: https://www.cambridgema.gov/covid19/News/2020/05/smallbusinessrecoverygranthttps://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridgema.gov%2Fcovid19%2FNews%2F2020%2F05%2Fsmallbusinessrecoverygrant&data=02%7C01%7Cnglowa%40cambridgema.gov%7C6d95fbc3caf04b23037908d80eecaf44%7Cc06a8be784794d73b35193bc9ba8295c%7C0%7C0%7C637275757028413082&sdata=PQaD7Mep0EBn7rK7Ukj2c10aRf78jTyzv%2FHPRDGxl8Q%3D&reserved=0
The City of Cambridge's Community Development Department oversees our Cares act grant program for what we are calling the "Small Business COVID-9 Recovery Grant". I think all the relevant info is here.
Nancy E. Glowa
City Solicitor
City of Cambridge, MA
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Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 11:59 AM
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Subject: [Disasterrelief] CARES Act small business grant programs
Fellow municipal attorneys,
It is my understanding that the CARES Act funding may be used for expenses associated with the provision of economic support in connection with the COVID-19 public health emergency including expenditures related to the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures.
Have any of your municipalities adopted or considered adopting a CARES Act grant program for small businesses?
If so, I would be interested in any sample documents concerning the grant program that you would be willing to share.
In particular, authorizing legislation, grant application forms, and grant award standards.
Thank you in advance.
Respectfully,
Tom Lindsey
Law Director
City of Worthington
374 Highland Avenue
Worthington, OH 43085
614-431-2424 (Office)
614-880-1467 (Fax)
Tom.Lindsey@Worthington.orgmailto:tlindsey@ci.worthington.oh.us
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