Any business that applied for Pulaski County’s latest round of COVID-19 relief is likely to get the full $10,000.
Community Development Commission Executive Director Nathan Origer gave an update on the funds from the state’s COVID-19 Response Program during Tuesday’s county commissioners meeting. “We have 22 that we are tentatively funding the full $10,000,” he explained. “There are two that are businesses within the Town of Winamac where we’re covering five-eights of it and the town is covering the other three-eighths.” He said the Community Development Commission has decided to split the remaining $11,000 among three locally-owned restaurants that didn’t apply on time.
But all of that still needs to be approved by the state. “KIRPC has informed us that the Office of Community and Rural Affairs is getting a little more hands-on in the review process than they did in the first two rounds, looking at the demonstration of need from their own set of eyes, and so there’s a chance that some of ours may be amended,” Origer said. “We don’t know how hands-on they’re going to be. We just know that they are taking the applications down to Indianapolis this time, which they had not done in the past.”
Pulaski County was awarded a total of $250,000 in the third round of OCRA’s COVID-19 Response Program.