{"id":246211,"date":"2020-03-28T22:37:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T02:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eimpactconsulting.com\/?p=246211"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:56:52","slug":"we-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eimpactconsulting.com\/we-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need Your Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]

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March 28, 2020<\/p>\n

Dear Governors Murphy, Cuomo and Lamont,<\/p>\n

I know that you are responding to thousands of immediate needs and I wanted to make sure that a very pressing need for small businesses with employees<\/strong> is also on your list \u2013 a commercial-lease relief and payroll-stimulus package<\/strong>. Yesterday\u2019s passage of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act represents a major milestone in jumpstarting our economy.\u00a0 However, small-, minority-, and women-business owners like myself need you, our governors, to do more.<\/p>\n

We need to retain both our employees and our offices so that when the self-quarantine orders are lifted, we have people and places to return with and to.<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. SBA Office of Advocacy, 99.9% of all businesses in the NY-metro area are small businesses and employ nearly half of all working people in the tri-state area. As one of the 3.5 million small business owners in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut employing 6.5 million people, I implore you to help us pay our office rent and make payroll.<\/p>\n

I am grateful for the emergency EIDL grants however, the current level of funding will only support 1 million of the 30.2 million small businesses nationwide. I also appreciate the payroll tax-credits however, we need cash to make payroll not tax credits. I should not have to withdraw from my severely depressed retirement account to pay subcontractors or make payroll and office lease payments. I am already doing that with my business line of credit. The CARE Act offers significant loan opportunities, yet provides for deferred loan payments – not forbearances, and distributes $275 million in restricted funding to support entrepreneurial counseling and training services<\/strong>. Perhaps you can redirect a portion of these funds to provide for more immediate and direct small business relief.<\/p>\n

We lease office space that we are restricted from entering because you have understandably ordered all non-essential businesses closed. Our monthly lease payments however are still open, and in fact due in two days. We arrange for our employees to work remotely \u2013 an additional expense. It\u2019s like sending our children off to college with laptops, appropriate business software applications, hi-speed internet access and a quiet space to work. Yet they are not our children and they are not going to college.\u00a0 They are our team members and they are heading home. We need your help. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tri-state area\u2019s supply chain must be fortified with cash not counseling. Our employees need health benefits not entrepreneurial training. The current model of low-interest loans, entrepreneurial counseling and training are repeats of older packages implemented during the Hurricane Sandy crisis and the Obama Affordable Jobs Act.\u00a0 We need a new stimulus approach for this new economy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I know that you are committed to seeing all residents, as well as small, medium and large businesses through this calamity. As you develop your tool kit to tackle this crisis, I ask you to include a commercial-lease relief and payroll-stimulus package for small business owners in your strategic arsenal of solutions. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are all in this together!<\/p>\n

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Respectfully submitted,<\/p>\n

Cheryl McCants<\/p>\n

President & CEO<\/p>\n

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Sources:<\/p>\n

U.S. SBA Office of Advocacy\u2019s 2018 U.S. Small Business Profile<\/a>, 2018 NJ Small Business Profile<\/a>, 2018 NY Small Business Profile<\/a>, 2018 CT Small Business Profile<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Guide to the CARES Act<\/a><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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As we adjust to our new normal,\u00a0Team Impact<\/a>\u00a0wants to let all of our clients, vendors, suppliers, partners, and friends know that we are here for you and that we are all in this together! <\/p>\n\n\n\n