Lance Lippincott, county Economic and Workforce Development Director, submitted a request to the board for $500,000 in grant funding to be put toward the Small Business Assistance Program his department developed. Thanks to support from county supervisors Doug Verboon and Richard Valle, Lippincott was authorized $6 million in funding, he said.
“The board has been proactive in helping small businesses, especially going into the recession,” Lippincott said.
The new authorization will help Kings County businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Healthy businesses support a healthy county,” Supervisor Richard Valle said.
According to Valle, the pandemic still generates a financial strain for some local businesses and the money will ease those burdens.
Kings County as a whole faced difficulty in 2020 with getting…
