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Committee packages small-business grants, arts backfill and summer learning into a consolidated supplemental; sends amended package to special meeting
Summary
Supervisors amended a supplemental spending package that would direct surplus funds to small-business grants and loans, arts and cultural backfill for Prop E shortfalls, youth summer learning and other targeted relief. The committee accepted the consolidated amendments and continued Item 3 for final action on March 23; Items 2 and 4 were tabled.
The Budget & Appropriations Committee debated and amended a supplemental package on March 17 that folds several priorities into a single item for the March 23 special meeting: small-business grants and a loan pilot ($20,000,000 proposed); hotel-tax arts and cultural backfill (original supplemental plus amendments raising the total to roughly $24.1M after negotiated changes); and a summer learning appropriation for youth ($15,000,000 with an additional $2.7M for high-school internships and dual-enrollment supports).
Diana Ponce de Leon (Office of Economic & Workforce Development) described the $20,000,000 small-business proposal: $12.4M for grants (two tracks: $5,000 storefront-equity grants targeted to very small or newly opened businesses in opportunity neighborhoods; $10k–$25k community storefront awards for…
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