WILLMAR — In Kandiyohi County, the Minnesota Pandemic Relief grant program has successfully assisted 66 county businesses by distributing $843,754 in state-provided funds.
The county, along with the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission, reviewed dozens of the applicants over the past several weeks, trying to help as many businesses as it could with the money provided.
“This was not taken lightly. We worked very hard to try to make it fair,” said Larry
On Tuesday, the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the disbursal of $314,000 in the second round of Minnesota Pandemic Relief (MPR) grants to local establishments reeling from the last round of COVID-19 related shutdowns.
“The applications are still coming in,” said Jean Spaulding, who is overseeing the MPR grant disbursement.
MPR program is a joint effort between the county and the Kandiyohi County and city of Wilmer Economic Development Commission (EDC) to funnel the
WILLMAR—The Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission has had a front row seat to the challenges and hardship the coronavirus pandemic has brought to businesses and non-profits across the county. And since late March 2020 the EDC has also been in the driver’s seat of several financial relief programs, helping those businesses hang on.
“I am proud of the organization in terms of what we are trying to do to help businesses survive this rough patch,”
On Tuesday, the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the dispersal of $265,000 in the first round of Minneapolis Pandemic Relief (MOR) grants to local establishments reeling from the last round of COVID-19 related shutdowns.
“We develop the program with that in mind so that they would get the first priority and work downwards” said Jean Spaulding, who is overseeing the MPR grant disbursement.
The MPR program is a joint effort between the county and the Kandiyohi county
With local establishments reeling from the last round of COVID-19 related shutdowns, Kandiyohi County, working alongside the Kandiyohi County and city of Willmar Economic Development Commission (EDC), will be administering a grant relief program to provide assistance to local impacted businesses.
The Minnesota Pandemic Relief (MPR) program is a joint effort between the county and the EDC and will be modeled after the EDC’s Coronavirus Relief Program (CRP), which administered $3.5 million in Coronavirus
WILLMAR—The $7.6 million Kandiyohi County, Willmar and most of the other cities and townships in the county received in total from Minnesota through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act is both an opportunity and a challenge.
An opportunity because it is much-needed funding for local units of government to meet a pandemic no one expected. It is a challenge because the amount of money, the reporting requirements attached to it and short time frame could be too much for some
