Business & Economic Resources
Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce:
Business Roundtable – 4/14/2020 –10:00am
MISSION: Success in two stages of the Coronavirus threat:

1) Response to the immediate threat
2) economic recovery when the threat diminishes.
RECAP

Response to immediate threat : Updates

  1. City of Monterey: Renters Assistance program ($600K) and Small Business Fund ($1M) will be presented for approval to City Council next week on 4/21. Mechanism to add City oversight to grants and loans. NCIP and CIP are off-line now, and the backlog is proposed to be re-appropriated to ensure a balanced budget. Savings for Economic Uncertainty will remain untouched at this time. Rent deferment to City tenants in effect 4/8.
  2. Hospitality & Tourism: MCCVB put a recovery taskforce in place. Confirmed internal cuts of 80% of payroll. Overall impact on local industry workers is 50%-60% or 12,500 – 15,000 affected. Marketing plan is being developed in conjunction with MBay Aquarium. First target will be locals, then the drive market with 2021 the year to see slow recovery. Group business is active for 2022-2024.
  3. Health Care: Statewide: 25,000 positive cases are counted, or an increase of 2,000 over the previous day. California Department of Health predicts that it will peak at end of April. Countywide: 87 positive cases, 5 of which are at CHOMP. Level of supplies is at Green level (Good). Montage Foundation accepts donations to its response fund, as normal income is greatly diminished. Only COVID-19 and emergency cases are taking place.
  4. State of California: Update on Legislature, still in recess until 5/4/2020. Formation of a pact CA-OR-WA to show unity of efforts. iBank will receive added resources. With help from business community, some relief is expected via insurance companies. Comeback expected as 7/2020.
  5. Monterey County: n/a
  6. Community Foundation: COVID-19 Relief Fund for non-profit agencies collected $2.3M in 3 weeks. Deployed $1.1M. Funds originated from private foundations and donors. A Monterey Peninsula Small Business Relief Fund was started last week by MP Chamber. Committees are being formed for grant process and fundraising purposes. The structure will be finalized by 4/17/2020.
  7. Banking, SBA Loans: n/a
  8. Human Resources: Found on montereychamber.com.
  9. Education: MPUSD has adopted distance learning until the end of school year. Because of challenge of lack of universal internet access, hot spots are developed and individual cell tower is built with Redshift. “Grab ‘n Go” program is in place (11,500 meals delivered last week) together with a drive-in distribution with Food Bank (1,000 bags picked up last Friday) Homeless MPUSD families: 25 are living on hotel vouchers. 75 are unsheltered. Emergency assistance is needed to identify hotel/motel blocks of rooms. Contact: pkdiffenbaugh@mpusd.k12.ca.us.
  10. Communication between organizations. Great unity of messaging and purpose between MP Chamber/MCCVB/MCHA and the City of Monterey
  11. Good News to share? Good results from this group!
  12. Next teleconference will be held Tuesday 4/21/2020 at 10:00am
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Ways To Help
We’re all in this together.
 
 
Chamber of Commerce members,
 
During these challenging and uncertain times, it is more important than ever that we support one another in any way we can. Our healthcare workers serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic need our support, too.
 
Montage Health is looking to partner with local businesses to do just that, as well as to drive traffic to your business.
 
Businesses interested in offering a “healthcare worker discount” — a 10% discount off the total bill — will be included on a list of Montage Health  COVID-19 Community Partners  and promoted to all Montage Health employees through internal channels.
 
To streamline the process, customers would simply show their Montage Health ID badge to receive the discount upon payment. No coupon or other form of validation would be required. (If a code is needed for online order processing, please use MH10).
 
If you are interested in joining this partnership, please email  MONICA@MONTEREYCHAMBER.COM for more information.
Please forward this e-blast to your colleagues, customers, clients, friends, family and fellow community members!