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Small business and neighborhood workforce groups press supervisors to preserve Neighborhood Marketplace and Small Business Assistance Center funding
Summary
Office of Economic and Workforce Development staff said OEWD had achieved roughly $1.96 million in midyear reductions and is preparing further FY09–10 targets; small business owners and neighborhood representatives urged supervisors not to cut the Small Business Assistance Center or Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative grants, arguing those programs support local jobs and recovery.
Jennifer Mats, Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, told the committee that OEWD had achieved approximately $1,960,000 in midyear cuts (including mayoral consolidations) and faced further FY09–10 targets of about $2,300,000. Mats said the department had eliminated or consolidated 12 positions and that additional cuts would be phased into the '09–'10 budget…
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