CARES Act Small Business Grant awarded to 28 Raytown businesses
CARES Act Small Business Grant awarded to 28 Raytown businesses
and last updated 2020-12-18 19:21:30-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â After months of hardships, Raytown small business owners received a little hope.
On Friday, the City of Raytown awarded 28 small businesses with grant funds through the Raytown CARES Act Small Business Grant.
Serenity Cafe opened not long before the pandemic hit. The owner, Rebecca Tolbert told 41 Action News that its been hard to stay afloat.
âThis grant will help us for a couple of months but then if things donât pick up or we donât get any help from congress at all, weâll be right back in the same situation, Tolbert said.
Citizen-requested Raytown audit finds need for transparency, better monitoring of incentive debt
and last updated 2020-12-18 15:38:48-05
RAYTOWN, Mo. â Auditor Nicole Galloway released results on Thursday of a
citizen-requested audit of the city of Raytown.
The report comes more than two years after the process of gathering more than 1,600 petition signatures began.
Galloway s audit gave the city an overall rating of Fair and found a need for increased transparency measures and better monitoring of funds used to pay down incentive debt. It also raised concerns about severance agreements made with police department employees in 2017.
According to Galloway s report, the city made several payments totaling more than $70,000 to nine police department employees during the fiscal year that ended October 31, 2017. The report describes the payments as not necessary and reasonable.