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San Leandro Launches Small Business Recovery Grants

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December 24, 2021

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Grant awards aim to help businesses repay unpaid rent due to COVID-19 hardship

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The City of San Leandro is proud to announce the San Leandro Small Business Recovery Grant Program, which will provide $750,000 in grants to help small businesses pay back rent owed. The Grant Program is focused on helping businesses that have suffered the most from the pandemic and struggled to access financial assistance. Additionally, training and ongoing services will be provided to support the continued operations and growth of the businesses beyond the pandemic. The San Leandro Small Business Recovery Grant Program is an effort to help the community “keep it local” both in character and vitality.

These grants are being provided as a part of San Leandro’s COVID-19 recovery efforts to support businesses and foster community. With support from the San Leandro City Council, the City has allocated $750,000 of the City’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for small business assistance grants. Through this program, around 50 small businesses will receive grants of up to $15,000 each to be paid to their landlords to cover overdue rent accrued since the onset of the pandemic.

Eligible businesses must be located in incorporated San Leandro. This program is aimed at brick-and-mortar, for-profit businesses in operation since before March 16, 2020, with 25 or fewer employees, and that lease or rent their commercial property directly from a landlord. The goal of the program is to assist businesses that were required to be closed or had limited operations for an extensive period during 2020, experienced a significant loss of revenue, a reduction in workforce, and that received little to no financial assistance in response to the pandemic. All small businesses are encouraged to apply if they think they might qualify.

This program continues efforts by the City of San Leandro that began in 2020, when nearly $1.7 million in grants were issued to struggling San Leandro businesses. Many of these businesses were able to take advantage of the local Commercial Eviction Moratorium, which ended on September 30 of this year, and left a multitude of businesses challenged to repay their overdue rent. The City hopes that this program will help to get the hardest-hit tenants current on their rent payments, thereby ensuring operational continuity and business retention.

The Small Business Recovery Grant program launches on Dec. 21, 2021. Initial applications are due Jan. 11, 2022. Information about the grant program can be found at https://www.sanleandro.org/767/COVID-19-Business-Resources

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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.