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Provided by Dow Jones By Nick Timiraos The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve said Tuesday they had extended the cutoff date for the Main Street Lending Program from Dec. 31 to Jan. 8 to process a last-minute crush to deliver loans. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last month declined to grant an extension to several emergency-lending programs run by the Fed, including the Main Street Lending Program, which is designed to support lending to small and midsize businesses and nonprofits disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the program sto...

Chatham County commissioners won't get pay increase Follow Us Question of the Day SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - New commissioners in Chatham County won’t be getting a pay raise. The current board backed down from an attempt to increase pay for commissioners by $5,000 a year, removing it from an agenda at a Friday meeting The Savannah Morning News reports the increase was proposed by Commissioner Pat Farrell earlier this month. Farrell on Friday removed the proposal from the agenda after Commission Chairman Al Scott noted that state law calls for a pay increase to get thre...

Under state law commissioners cannot increase their own pay as a board. Instead, the current board can approve a pay raise for its successor. Since the pay raise wasn’t approved Friday, which was the final meeting of 2020, commissioners won’t be eligible for a base pay increase for another four years. The base salary for commissioners is $27,328.79.  Commissioners may earn an additional $1,200 per year for completion of ACCG (Georgia's county association) certification, said Chatham County spokeswoman Abbigail Murphy. Commissioners also receive a 2.5% increase after completion of each 4...

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson TO PRevent the further spread of COVID-19, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson is recommending that the city continue its moratorium on issuing event permits through Feb. 28, 2021. The city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations remain up in the air. “In consultation with our public-health and epidemiology professionals, and looking at the difficult road ahead, I will be recommending to the Savannah City Council and the Savannah City Manager that the city will not permit events through Feb. 28, 2021,” said Johnson at his weekl...

AJ 40 under 40: IF_DO 10 December 2020 By Richard Waite, illustration by Simon Hayes Following its competition-winning design for the 2017 Dulwich Picture Gallery Pavilion, the AJ 40 under 40 practice has won a growing number of larger-scale commissions The three co-founders of Bermondsey-based IF_DO first met in 2002 at the University of Edinburgh. But it wasn’t until 12 years later that they reconverged to form a practice whose intention was to create ‘diverse, generous and inclusive’ projects that had ‘a positive impact on users, the environment and the surrounding com...