The additional
$50 million will go toward applicants who applied for funding beginning in October 2020 after the initial grant period had expired. In his prepared remarks, Sisolak said eligible businesses and non-profits can apply for up to $10,000 in direct grant funding that can be used for a wide range of expenses
Funding from the PETS grants can be spent on working capital such as rent, inventory, payroll and the like, personal protective equipment, and protective retrofit due to the pandemic, according to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development’s (GOED)
GOED is responsible for administering the program that will be overseen by the Interim Finance Committee. Any unspent funds will be reverted to the state’s general fund on or before September 17, according to the bill’s text.
Small businesses join governor to push for additional relief
By SAM METZJanuary 27, 2021 GMT
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Walter Gloshinski, who owns Smiling with Hope Pizza in Reno, Nevada, believes the pandemic has forced workers to make impossible choices.
“I see so many businesses like small restaurants and their employees are making $10-an-hour. They’re ‘get-by people.’ They come to work sick and don’t say anything because they have needs and you can’t blame them,” he said Tuesday, speaking alongside other small business owners and state officials during a virtual roundtable on pandemic issues.
Gloshinski and his wife have a background in special education, and three members of their nine-person staff have cognitive disabilities that make finding a job difficult, he said. He decided to close his restaurant amid a Reno-area surge and said uncertainty surrounding vaccines makes it difficult to plan for the future.
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