How Colorado s small businesses can apply for new COVID-19 relief funding through federal government, state
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Small businesses in Colorado can now apply for new federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, as well as state COVID-19 relief funding.
Some banks were starting to accept PPP applications on Monday morning, and other participating lenders will start Wednesday.
This comes in the wake of Congress approving $284 billion in PPP funding as part of its latest COVID-19 relief bill. This second round of PPP loans is expected to target small businesses that were disadvantaged in the first round, which was released in the spring of 2020. They will get priority Monday and Tuesday and on Wednesday, it will open to everybody, including those who benefited from the first round.
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The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority may redirect roughly $700,000 in Destination 2040 property tax funding to support a pedestrian underpass at 27th Street and Colorado Highway 82.
More than $2 million is still needed to complete the $10.1 million crossing – approved by the Glenwood Springs City Council in August to improve safety at the busy intersection.
The Glenwood Springs City Council on Thursday will discuss RFTA’s proposal to delay a host of service improvement projects and instead focus on underpass construction.
Among the possible deferments are $298,000 dedicated to a downtown Bus Rapid Transit extension and $395,000 to reroute local RFTA buses to Highway 6 and Highway 24.
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The project would connect the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport with neighboring public facilities including Holy Cross Energy’s Aspen office, pedestrian snowmelt systems, and the RFTA bus barn.
In addition to increased solar energy capacity and electricity storage, the study is looking into the feasibility of a thermal heat transfer system. The microgrid’s electricity sharing will be incorporated into the existing infrastructure of Holy Cross Energy, an electric cooperative, while new components will be developed for thermal energy distribution between buildings.
Currently, there is no estimated total size of the proposed microgrid. However, county officials have indicated that it will likely total multiple megawatts of energy.
No. 1: COVID-19 pandemic
In Pueblo West 2020 was the year of coronavirus concerns which changed everything about day-to-day life and made new heroes for the community.
Frontline workers like medical staff became heroes in the fight against the virus while grocery store employees saved the community from going hungry. Since March, the community has seen shutdowns, stay-at-home orders, outbreaks and quarantines.
While COVID-19 pushed schools to mostly online classes, forced restaurants and bars to do business via takeout and had many employees working from home, things like online meetings became the new normal. In Pueblo West, one local baker whose livelihood was idled by coronavirus concerns Brenda Huffman, owner of Foodhearts Custom Cakes sewed more than 1,500 face masks deploying them to Parkview nurses and anyone else in need of some extra protection.
A Senate bill passed during this month s special legislative session will allocate over $35 million to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) to be distributed to small businesses across