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1. UPDATE, on City of New Bedford COVID-19 cases, demographics and neighborhoods impacted and outreach efforts; Board of Health orders business re-opening and next steps. (06/23/2020) (06/23/2020 – tabled)

2. BRIEFING, on City of New Bedford Community Development Block Grant-COVID-19 funding and plans to implement a small business loan program. (06/23/2020) (06/23/2020 – tabled)

3. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Abreu, Lima, Council President Lopes, Councillors Giesta, Markey, Carney and Baptiste, requesting, that our Federal Delegation offer financial stimulus solutions and economic recovery pathways for New Bedford and Massachusetts-based businesses who opened after September 01, 2019, under the current terms of the "City of New Bedford COVID-19 Small Business Grant & Loan Program," is a Federally funded U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program and its terms of eligibility are very specific, so the City of New Bedford has no authority to financially assist this particular business population through this mechanism. (To be Referred to Congressman William Keating, Senator Edward Markey and Senator Elizabeth Warren). (Ref’d 01/14/2021)

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