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Commissioners discuss repaying $120,000 loan instead of seeking forgiveness.

With enough money to meet payroll, the federal money was used to give staff and career firefighters an extra week’s pay and stipends to volunteer firefighters.

Sheppard believes most PPP loans under $150,000 will get little or no scrutiny from the federal level, so situations like the one at the Blue Hills Fire District in Bloomfield will be left for local officials to sort through, not the Small Business Administration, which is overseeing the program. “Those applications are really going to be a one page attestation that basically you sign and you give back to the SBA. That basically says here was the number of employees I was able to keep, here w...

“You applied for the loan and I didn’t know nothing about it…I’m asking you, how are we eligible for a PPP loan when we weren’t in any type of distress?” Manson asked the current BHFD commissioners and staff at the October meeting. “Manson and I did not approve that”, said Massey-Green. Finance director Errol Bartley explained at the meeting that he decided to apply for the PPP loan due to concern tax collections in Bloomfield would be down due to the pandemic.  “I was actin...