To be eligible, businesses have to show they lost half or more of their gross revenue from 2019 to 2020 due to the pandemic. The second round is only open to businesses that didn’t get money in the state’s first series of American Rescue Plan Act grants.
Sitka fishing vessels in harbor on Jan. 18, 2018. Commercial fisherman who own and operate their own boats may be eligible for the second round of the state’s pandemic relief program for businesses, Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference director Shirley Marquardt said.
Even if business owners applied and were turned down during that first round of the Alaska ARPA Business Relief Program, they can still give this second round a shot, said Shirley Marquardt, executive director for the Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference. The state Legislature originally allocated $90 million from the Covid State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, which is a part of Alaska’s ARPA funding, to go toward the tourism and business relief grant program. Of that original amount, there’s about $34 million dollars left in the state’s ARPA pot.
For example, in Kodiak, she said there are more businesses that rely on tourism and were devastated by the lack of visitors. In Unalaska, the effects were more localized to the fishing industry.
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