In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SBA was given the authority to make low-interest fixed-rate COVID EIDL loans to help small businesses and other entities overcome the effects of the pandemic by providing borrowers with working capital to meet ordinary and necessary operating expenses.

Borrowers may use COVID EIDL working capital loan proceeds to make regular payments for operating expenses and to:

•   Pay or pre-pay business non-federal debt incurred at any time (past or future), including monthly payments, payments of deferred interest

•   Pay regularly scheduled payments on federal debt

•   Payroll

•   Rent/mortgage

•   Utilities

•   Other ordinary business expenses

AdvanceCT and the Governor’s Workforce Council have partnered with UpperCampus, a leading technology company in career readiness software, to design CampusCT, a mobile experience built exclusively for Connecticut students.

We educate Connecticut college students at our renowned, world class institutions, yet we rank 41st nationally in retaining them. We know we can do better. CampusCT aims to increase awareness of the state’s employers, from global Fortune 500 companies to local small businesses and non-profits and highlight all that Connecticut has to offer them as they launch – professionally and personally. Read More

Guilford First Selectman Matt Hoey and Madison First Selectwoman Peggy Lyons this week announced they've named Sheri Cote as the "newly established" Guilford-Madison Economic Development Director.

Cote has served as Guilford's Interim Economic Development Coordinator in a part time capacity for the past year, Hoey noted. Read More

The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG), which brings together local governments to coordinate municipal services, transportation and land use planning programs for its 15 member municipalities is announcing the beginning of a housing survey for residents.

This survey is part of SCRCOG’s efforts to help each municipality create housing plans in accordance with the State of Connecticut’s General Statutes Section 8-30j, which requires each municipality create and amend an affordable housing survey at least once every five years. This survey is intended to help identify the perceptions and realities of housing affordability, appropriateness, and challenges within each community.

The survey is being offered in two formats, online and as a paper version with options for English and Spanish. The survey will be open from September 14 to October 15, 2021. Read More

Paper surveys can be mailed to:

SCRCOG

127 Washington Ave., 4th Floor West

North Haven, CT 06473