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City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />April 7, 2020 <br />Page 6 of 12 <br /> <br />Mayor Stolzmann summarized the Council’s thoughts on the types of businesses to <br />support noting support for sales tax-generating businesses or those required to be closed <br />under the governor’s orders. <br /> <br />Mayor Stolzmann asked what eligible expenditures the Council wants to consider. <br /> <br />Councilmember Dickinson suggested rent be an eligible expenditure. <br /> <br />Councilmember Lipton suggested the list of expenditures be left very broad. Most <br />members agreed. <br /> <br />Members generally supported a program with a finite deadline not a rolling deadline so all <br />applications can be reviewed and scored together. <br /> <br />Mayor Stolzmann reviewed the general consensus so far: <br /> want a small business assistance grant program; <br /> hope to have multiple phases to the program; <br /> want to allow businesses to spend the funds in a variety of ways; <br /> will look to see if the Revitalization Commission can contribute to the funding; <br /> want to fill a gap that other programs don’t cover; <br /> want to give grants to those with a physical presence in town; <br /> applicants should be current on all City accounts; <br /> applicants should have 25 full-time equivalents/50 employees or fewer. <br /> <br />Members also agreed applicants need to be able to show a loss due to Covid-19. <br /> <br />Councilmember Lipton reiterated his suggestion to send the program to the Economic <br />Vitality Committee to bring a suggestion back to Council. Councilmembers Leh and Mayor <br />Pro Tem Maloney agreed. <br /> <br />Mayor Stolzmann was concerned that taking time to go to the committee would add more <br />time to the process. <br /> <br />Councilmember Lipton moved to refer this to the program to the Economic Vitality <br />Committee; seconded by Councilmember Leh. <br /> <br />Roll Call Vote Approved 4-3 to send to the Economic Vitality Committee for more work. <br />Mayor Stolzmann, Councilmember Dickinson, and Councilmember Brown voting no. <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO. 30, SERIES 2020 – A RESOLUTION REGARDING QUASI- <br />JUDICIAL HEARINGS AT MEETINGS CONDUCTED BY ELECTRONIC <br />PARTICIPATION <br />