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August 2020 Edition

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Senator "Doc" Rhett!

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District 33

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District 33

The Governor, Senator Doc Rhett District 33, & Cobb Democratic Women Chair, Ms. Allen at the signing of Rhett's Banking Bill Senate Bill 20

The bill encourages banking services and consumer credit programs in under served communities.

These under served communities are served by check cashing, payday loans, title loans, pawn shops, etc. Interest rates can go as high as 300%

Read the bill here!

Senator Doc Rhett (co-sponsor) & Rep. Eric Allen participate in the signing of Senate Bill SB 426.

It requires spills or release of ethylene oxide (a cancer- causing agent)

be reported

to the

Environmental Protection Division (EPD)

See Bill Here!

Thank you for your bipartisan support of SB 20

Rep Calvin Smyre, Senator Bill Ligon Jr., Senator Ed Harbison,

Senator David Lucas

Austell Community Task force Back to school jam!

Doc

Mableton Improvement Coalition

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Cobb Schools introduce plan for phased return to face-to-face learning

Marietta school board says yes to plan that could return kids to campus Sept. 8

MDJ News Source

Marietta City Schools' youngest learners and some special needs students will return to the classroom twice a week as soon as Sept. 8.

After a 7-0 vote Tuesday evening, the Marietta school board voted to enact Superintendent Grant Rivera's five-phase plan to transition back to face-to-face learning.

In a letter to the Marietta schools community, Rivera dubbed his plan the "Flexible Approach to Teaching and Learning" and said it "prioritizes the needs of our youngest learners (grades PreK-2) and students with disabilities (grades 3-5, low-incidence special education classes)."

Low-incidence special education is defined as students with autism, mild intellectual disabilities, moderate disabilities, and severe and profound disabilities.

Those students would come to school two days each week in classrooms featuring no more than 10 students at a time. They would continue learning virtually the other three days of the week.

Each room will have between five and nine students, Jen Brock, the district spokeswoman, previously told the MDJ.

If data and health experts' guidance on the spread of the virus allows, the district will slowly allow older students into schools and increase the number of days all children attend in-person from two to five.

POSTED BY: THE COBB COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT JULY 29, 2020

Following Superintendent Chris Ragsdale's July 16 announcement that the 2020-2021 school year would start with a fully remote learning model, the Cobb Schools Food and Nutrition Services began preparing to provide breakfast and lunches to students in a way that best supports the remote environment.

With the help of a partnership with MUST Ministries, Cobb Schools has already dished up more than 455,000 meals to students since schools closed in March to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Starting on August 17-the first day of school-parents will be able to pick-up prepaid meal kits for the entirety of the week. Meal kits are available to all students currently enrolled in Cobb Schools.

Most Cobb schools will schedule meal kit pick-ups on Mondays between 4:00-6:00 p.m. for those families who have completed the online pre-order process on MyPaymentsPlus. Specific times and dates will be located on the pre-order form. Families will be able to submit pre-orders starting on August 11.

Pre-orders must be made weekly to receive meal kits. The pre-order form will open every Tuesday with a deadline of every Thursday at 12 p.m. in order to receive meal kits for the following week. Local schools will not be able to assist with placing orders over the phone. All meal kit orders must be submitted through the online pre-order form. Any money currently on a student's meal account cannot be used for meal kit payments.

The cost of the meal kits will include five breakfasts and five lunches.

Smyrna adopts nondiscrimination ordinance, violators could be subject to $1,000 fine

MDJ News

Smyrna City Council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance Monday night, becoming one of a handful of cities in Georgia with such a law.

The ordinance bars discrimination on the basis of race, religion, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, homeless status, disability, age, marital status and veteran or military status.

It applies to employment; the use of or service at public spaces, including businesses within city limits; and housing. Exempt is any religious organization "that engages an individual to perform work connected with the performance of religious activities," schools following the federal Civil Rights and the Americans with Disabilities acts and employers' "bona fide" affirmative action or seniority plans.

Violators are subject to a maximum fine of $1,000.

All local small businesses encouraged to apply for relief grants

Last week, we proudly awarded almost $7.5 million in grants to more than 400 small businesses in our community. But, there is still more than $40 million available to help our local business owners. We are excited to extend our partnership with Select Cobb to offer a second round of applications for small business relief grants and all are encouraged to apply.

Applications are open at selectcobb.com/grants through 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 21. Eligible businesses can apply to receive up to $20,000 to $40,000 to use toward personnel, rent, utilities and acquiring PPE. All applications submitted by the deadline that meet the requirements will be considered.

New for this round of applications:

Businesses that have received financial assistance from the Payroll Protection Program or Small Business Administration are now eligible for grants
Businesses can include both W-2 and 1099 employees toward their total number of employees

For a full list of eligibility requirements and more information about the Select Cobb Small Business Relief Grants, visit selectcobb.com/grants.

To view the entire list of round one grant recipients, click here.

Register for informative webinars to learn more about grant application process

Cobb County and the Cobb Chamber staff are launching a webinar series to educate business owners on the Small Business Relief Grant application process and eligibility requirements. Webinars starts on Tuesday,

Aug. 4, and feature Cobb commissioners throughout the series. Attendees will be able to ask questions during the webinar about the small business grant process. Each webinar is an hour and free to attend.

10 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4
Chairman Mike Boyce
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2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 5
District Two Commissioner Bob Ott
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2 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 6
District Four Commissioner Lisa Cupid
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10 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 12
District Three Commissioner JoAnn Birrell
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3 p.m., Friday, Aug. 14
District One Commissioner Keli Gambrill
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For more information on the Small Business Relief Grants webinar series, contact Jinnie Christensen at jchristensen@cobbchamber.org or 770-859-2357.

For more information on the second round of SelectCobb Small Business Relief grants, contact the SelectCobb team at grants@selectcobb.com or 770-859-2364.

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