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Consider Directing Staff to Explore Creating a Tax-Exempt Special Fund to Provide Gap Resources for Local Small Business, Renters and Local Organizations Significantly Impacted by the COVID-19 State of Emergency. (Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft)
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.
3) Take dispositive action if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): April 20, 2020
Council Meeting date: May 5, 2020
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
Ask staff to explore the creation of a tax-exempt special fund, including application and selection criteria, to provide gap resources to be matched with grants or philanthropic donations to local small businesses, renters and other local organizations significantly impacted by the declared COVID-19 State of Emergency.
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