Rancho Cordova Offers Grants To Keep Local Businesses Afloat During Pandemic

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RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) — One section metropolis is launching caller efforts to assistance support businesses from going bankrupt.

Heather Zak says her family’s Rancho Cordova edifice has been deed hard financially by the pandemic.

“It’s been ace tough,” she said.

Zak would similar to prosecute much employees and person much customers filling the seats and tables.

“People are inactive frightened to travel retired truthful we decidedly suffer retired connected a batch of income and we person this immense abstraction present and we lone capable fractional of it,” she said.

Now, Rancho Cordova is offering up much than a cardinal dollars to assistance section businesses similar hers bounce backmost from pandemic problems.

The metropolis is taking applications for grants of up to $40,000 that tin beryllium utilized to assistance struggling tiny businesses enactment afloat.

“The extremity is to enactment our section businesses and non-profits organizations that are inactive experiencing economical hardships,” 1 metropolis authoritative said.

“We deliberation it’s astonishing what they bash and what they’re trying to bash for the community,” Zak said.

So what tin these betterment grants beryllium utilized for?

“Rent, payroll, retiring high-end debt. All of those are unfastened for possibilities,” the metropolis authoritative said.

Funding comes from national COVID-relief wealth and the city’s assemblage enhancement fund, but not each concern tin apply.

“The metropolis has acceptable up truly pugnacious guidelines,” Parvinder Singh said.

Singh tried to motion up, but his state and convenience store is not eligible for the wealth on with respective different types of businesses including fume shops, massage parlors, and location based businesses.

“That’s not precise bully due to the fact that I figured retired I’m not getting nothing,” Singh said.

But for those that bash qualify, metropolis leaders anticipation it helps owners support their doors unfastened for years to come.

“It’s truly a pugnacious clip for them, truthful we’re trying to assistance wherever we can,” the metropolis authoritative said.

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Applications are being accepted online done January 23 and the metropolis hopes to statesman distributing the wealth by the extremity of February.