By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune
Mesa plans to throw a financial lifeline to businesses struggling in the downturn unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of grants mainly to small businesses that have not received other forms of federal relief.
The Mesa Small Business Reemergence Plan would tap into the $90 million allocation Mesa received from the Coronavirus Relief Fund approved by Congress in the federal CARES Act.
The grants, part of the Mesa Cares COVID-19 relief efforts, are intended to tide over businesses that have been heavily impacted by the pandemic and that hope to re-open once social distancing restrictions are relaxed.
