{"id":1319671,"date":"2020-04-28T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=996027"},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:22:34","slug":"town-of-parachute-allocates-100000-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/town-of-parachute-allocates-100000-for-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Town of Parachute allocates $100,000 for small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/PI-Parachute-news-small.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Post Independent Parachute news graphic\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/PI-Parachute-news-small.jpg 691w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/PI-Parachute-news-small-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Town of Parachute announced Monday the immediate availability of the Business Interim Relief Program grant applications open to all small businesses within Parachute and Battlement Mesa with 12 or fewer employees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The western Garfield County town allocated $100,000 to support local businesses with overhead expenses such as rent, mortgage, and utilities up to $2,000 per business.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once the application is received and approved, the Town will work with individual business owners to pay overhead bills directly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Town wants to help our community\u2019s current businesses succeed despite the current situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic guidelines,\u201d Parachute Town Manager Stuart McArthur said in a news release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Less restrictive than federal relief funds, the local grant funding provides businesses direct contact with the town.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Interim Relief Program is the Town of Parachute\u2019s commitment to the local businesses and their success. Applications are available for download immediately at the Town\u2019s website, colorado.gov\/parachutecolorado.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.307370184255\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 gspi-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.171717171717\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p>Readers around Glenwood Springs and Garfield County make the Post Independent\u2019s work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <button class=\"btn\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickBelow()\">Donate<\/button><\/div>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/town-of-parachute-allocates-100000-for-small-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Parachute announced Monday the immediate availability of the Business Interim Relief Program grant applications open to all small businesses within Parachute and Battlement Mesa with 12 or fewer employees.&nbsp; The western Garfield County town allocated $100,000 to support local businesses with overhead expenses such as rent, mortgage, and utilities up to $2,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 00:34:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}