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Local businesses benefit from virus funds

By Brian Hagen

03/26/2021

KS Governor Laura Kelly

(KAIR)--Local area businesses in Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, and Jefferson Counties are among nearly 3,000 statewide receiving a portion of Coronavirus Relief Fund dollars, made available for small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to a release from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, the funds are allocated through nearly $57 million in Small Business Working Capital grants made available “for some of the hardest-hit businesses in the state.”

Kansas businesses with fewer than 500 employees were eligible to apply for SBWC grant funding made available by Governor Kelly’s Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas Taskforce through the federal CARES Act. Grant funds could be used to pay working capital expenses such as payroll, insurance, rent, mortgage payments, utilities, inventory and more.
Eleven Atchison County-based businesses will receive what the release calls “vital support,” with those businesses including the Atchison Area Chamber of Commerce, Atchison Hospitality Group, Domenique’s Bakery, Eye Specialists of Atchison, Atchison Flame and Vessel, Hilligoss Shoes, Razorjack Consulting, Regan Tax and Accounting, Sterling Curb Appeal and Landscape, Atchison Tuck U Inn, and Wheatland Contracting.

Ten Brown County businesses will receive funding, along with five in Doniphan County, seven in Jackson County, and four in Jefferson County.