SWEETWATER COUNTY The Sweetwater County Commissioners will consider approval Tuesday for the county to apply for the Wyoming Business Council for a Rural Development Grant to assist small businesses in recovering from the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.
If approved, the grant award would be used to assist small businesses in Sweetwater County recover from the pandemic by providing consulting sessions and a webinar in collaboration with “Entrepreneurial Communities”. The project would be led by consultant Mo Collins, who would provide “short-term, high-impact” consulting sessions.
According to the Commissioners’ meeting agenda and packet, the project also includes developing a “business community assessment” that could identify future courses of action to strengthen economic development in Sweetwater County.
Converse County Commissioners distributed $216,000 to various organizations throughout the county via the Community Charitable Relief Program (CCRP) during a special meeting Monday evening.
This CCRP complies with the Coronavirus, Aid, relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and allows each county to award funds to charitable organizations that have provided COVID-19 relief to the public and/or have suffered a reduction in donations, grants or other income directly because of the pandemic.
Commissioners granted most of these funds to the Human Resource Council of Converse County/Community Service Block Grant, which got $85,000, the Kingâs Portion Food Pantry, which got $60,000 and Solutions for Life, which received $50,000.
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