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3	Date	Task Force	Industry	Request/Question/Opportunity	Reply/Link	Subgroup Response	Challenges to reopen
4	4/15/20		All	Are there grants/scholarships or free opportunities for business owners/managers to take online classes/webinars to continue their education while also trying to not spend money	Ask others in your industry what they're doing; Region10 is a good resource; SBDC is hosting a weekly Monday webinar (https://clients.coloradosbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=160400020)
17	4/10/20	County	All	From Betsy Holena @ Health and Human Services: Is there any valley wide information on how many people we anticipated were laid off or lost work due to COVID and its circumstances?(this is for a grant) or any idea where I could find this information? This number will help us not only request additional funding, but budget what we do have a little better.	Unemployment data by county can be found here and should be updated on April 17. https://www.bls.gov/lau/tables.htm 4/10
18	4/8/20	County	All	Hello everyone, I'm wondering if any one is aware of a resource for parents to use for those who don't have Internet? Some of my Spanish speaking families are struggling with teaching from home because they don't have Internet access. Has this been discussed at all? - Came from Devan Haney through IC Slack.	Leslie Nichols, Superintendent “I will continue to work tirelessly to eliminate internet access problems some families are facing. Spectrum is offering two months of free service to new new customers with students. IC Connex is offering free service in their WiFi area in the City of Gunnison. IC Connex and Xtream Internet will troubleshoot particular cases to get families access. I'm working with ViaSat and HughesNet to find solutions for our families who need satellite internet. Customers can ask CenturyLink for the best speeds they can provide. The district still has Verizon hotspots available to provide internet service to families in range of cell service.” 4/10
19	4/8/20	County	All	The question from Devan Haney illustrates that we are not reaching anyone who doesn't have access to the internet. If they have a cell phone could we help get them unlimited data to help them access resources better? Or how can we help these families through isolation? Last, is there a point person who can reach this population?	Leslie Nichols, Superintendent “I will continue to work tirelessly to eliminate internet access problems some families are facing. Spectrum is offering two months of free service to new new customers with students. IC Connex is offering free service in their WiFi area in the City of Gunnison. IC Connex and Xtream Internet will troubleshoot particular cases to get families access. I'm working with ViaSat and HughesNet to find solutions for our families who need satellite internet. Customers can ask CenturyLink for the best speeds they can provide. The district still has Verizon hotspots available to provide internet service to families in range of cell service.” 4/10
28	4/6/20	State/Regional	Restaurant	Can we get help pushing the State to require business interruption insurance companies to cover COVID losses?	Just general guidance as shared via SBDC network below. Additional requests or questions can be directed to the Colorado Insurance Commissioner: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dora/Insurance-Commissioner 4/16
29	4/1/20	State/Regional	All	Are cleaning protocols available for us to be able to continue working (those allowed) or to implement when we begin to reopen	https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ This is the most current protocol.
64	3/30/20	Federal	Restaurant	Can we add a list of documents that the banks may need to prepare for SBA EIDL.	Start the SBA loan process, local banks and accountants are beginning to get an deeper understanding of this.
65	3/30/20	Federal	Restaurant	We just bought our business in December. Worried we wont have enough documentation. Could we use numbers from the previous owners numbers?	Karen Hoskin: Forgiveness for a new business can be based on January - Feb 2020. Confirmed.
66	3/30/20	Federal	Restaurant	Should we apply for it all? Or is there a way to figure out what option works best for our particular situation?	Karen Hoskin: Apply for whatever you can because there is so much forgiveness. You don't have to spend your "nest egg" first with these new SBA loans. Confirmed
76	3/24/20	County	Restaurant	Can TAPP funds can be relocated to help businesses rather than attract tourists this summer?	At this time, we believe the best use of TAPP funds is to bring tourism back as quickly and strongly as possible as well as responding to the crisis in general as PIO and organizing Economic Recovery efforts.
138		State/Regional	Restaurant	Work-attached unemployment	Unemployment information is now all here, with PUA guidance: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdle/unemployment 4/16
139		State/Regional	Restaurant	ICELab could provide SBA coaching	The SBDC is available for Business Coaching and has availability. Also, this guide may help.
140		Private/utility	Restaurant	Will/which local banks be taking loan applications (local and SBA)	Every bank will be eligible, but not all banks will necessarily do these. Check with your bank.
141		Private/utility	Restaurant	Vendors may have waived fees or implemented other measures to help establishments	Call your vendors and ask. Square payments on Resource page has fee waivers. Sysco is working with customers.
142		Private/Utility	Restaurant	For our tourists who want to support and partake, is there a general site that they can go to - to see exactly how to support, shop, participate in our Valley from afar in one easy to use space?	The CB/Mt CB Chamber's open/closed list is below; working on getting donations available for all businesses and linked here; send your website or phone number and open/closed status ("open" is a relative term these days) to cbinfo@cbchamber.com to get on and update the list.- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xlx1exlwbAGA-vZUWLVNGyQs6ySNezrSYwTnqsz2LDo/edit?usp=sharing cbinfo@cbchamber.com
143		Municipalities	Restaurant	Valley-wide deferral of sales taxes rather than just municipality-based	In effect, the option to defer is valley-wide with each municipality doing so. In addition, Colorado retailers that are required to file a sales tax return and remit sales tax on April 20, 2020 may extend their filing and remittance deadline to May 20, 2020. This is a one-time extension of the April 20, 2020 filing and remittance deadline for state and state-administered sales taxes. The Department will waive penalties and interest that may accrue retailers that file their return and remit the full amount of state and state-administered sales tax due April 20, 2020 on or before May 20, 2020. However, a retailer that does not file the return and remit full payment on or before April 20, 2020 will not be able to retain their vendor/service fee. The vendor fee is a percentage of the sales tax collected that a retailer is allowed to retain in order to cover the expenses incurred by collecting and remitting state sales tax. The vendor fee is currently 4% of the sales tax remitted and is capped at $1,000 per filing period. 4/13
144		Federal	Restaurant	Will/which local banks be taking loan applications (local and SBA)	Community banks will help businesses compile information for SBA submission.
145		Federal	Restaurant	ICELab could provide SBA coaching	The SBDC is available for Business Coaching and has availability. Also, this guide may help.
146		County	Restaurant	Property tax deferrals	The Governor can (30 days at a time) allow for relief from the interest penalty on delinquent property taxes. The County has adopted this policy also. The Gunnison County Treasurer’s office will accept the first half of the 2019 property taxes (originally due February 29, 2020) without delinquent interest from March 20 through April 20, 2020. First half property tax payments post‐marked by April 20, 2020 will be processed without delinquent interest. The full tax payment due by April 30, 2020 and the second half tax payment due by June 15, 2020 are not impacted by Executive Order D 2020 012 at this time.
147		County	Restaurant	Reallocate TAPP’s LMD funds to help businesses rather than attract tourists this summer	TAPP staff is integral to our response to the pandemic, both directly in Incident Command by providing the PIO function and through the ICELab leading the economic recovery efforts. Although marketing of the valley to tourists is postponed, we expect the marketing messaging when launched to be more concentrated in our target markets. We estimate that every point of lodging occupancy is worth approximately $3M in revenues to our businesses in the valley. We have found no other opportunity to invest LMD funds that comes close to this impact.
148		County	Restaurant	Valley-wide deferral of sales taxes rather than just municipality-based	In effect, the option to defer is valley-wide with each municipality doing so. In addition, Colorado retailers that are required to file a sales tax return and remit sales tax on April 20, 2020 may extend their filing and remittance deadline to May 20, 2020. This is a one-time extension of the April 20, 2020 filing and remittance deadline for state and state-administered sales taxes. The Department will waive penalties and interest that may accrue retailers that file their return and remit the full amount of state and state-administered sales tax due April 20, 2020 on or before May 20, 2020. However, a retailer that does not file the return and remit full payment on or before April 20, 2020 will not be able to retain their vendor/service fee. The vendor fee is a percentage of the sales tax collected that a retailer is allowed to retain in order to cover the expenses incurred by collecting and remitting state sales tax. The vendor fee is currently 4% of the sales tax remitted and is capped at $1,000 per filing period. 4/13
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