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Authorizing the City to apply for the $100,000 Business Starts and Expansion Grant from Living Cities.
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is a member of Living Cities Closing the Gaps Network, which unites leaders across the country that are committed to imagining what an antiracist society might look like, and to playing an important role in building it through transforming government policies, practices, and operations; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul was one of six cities awarded a grant by Living Cities to participate in their Year of Reckoning cohort, a deep, year-long experience that will build on the work already underway in our city including competency building for staff to apply a racial equity analysis to all the city's work; and
WHEREAS, the City acknowledges Living Cities Business Starts and Expansion Grants will focus on worker and community ownership to close racial wealth gaps; and
WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial, and financial capability to adequately manage a Living Cities grant; and
WHEREAS, there is no match required of these funds by the City or other supporting agencies of the program; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, Saint Paul City Council hereby authorizes the Office of Financial Empowerment to apply for the $100,000 Business Starts and Expansion Grant from Living Cities.
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