The City of Yakima has dedicated $266,406 for a second round of assistance for micro-businesses (five or fewer employees) for reimbursement of expenses related to COVID-19. The money is available for low or moderate-income business owners, again with five employees or less, located within the Yakima city limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During its regular meeting on Tuesday, February 16th<\/sup>, the City Council formally agreed to have the Yakima County Development Association (YCDA) assist with the application process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The application will open Friday, February 19th<\/sup>, and can be accessed at www.ChooseYakimaValley.com<\/a>. When applicants complete the online portion, they will be prompted to schedule a time to meet with YCDA staff to finish the application and provide their documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The application deadline is 5:00 pm on Friday, March 5th<\/sup>. YCDA will contact applicants on Friday, March 19th<\/sup>, to notify them of their status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The money comes from a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), a Federal program intended to expand economic opportunities for low and moderate-income persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July 2020, the Yakima City Council set aside $480,000 in CDBG funds to assist micro-businesses with expenses associated with COVID-19. YCDA assisted the City in administering that application process, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call 575-1140 or visit Yakima County Development Association | Choose Yakima Valley<\/a> for more about YCDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/<\/a> for more about the City of Yakima and its response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The City of Yakima has dedicated $266,406 for a second round of assistance for micro-businesses (five or fewer employees) for reimbursement of expenses related to COVID-19. The money is available for low or moderate-income business owners, again with five employees or less, located within the Yakima city limits. During its regular meeting on Tuesday, February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10242,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}