Supervisors OK more small business aid, pending state, federal dollars

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors today unanimously voted to provide $30 million in grants to small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as soon as federal or state stimulus dollars are

available.

County staff will develop the grant program, and each supervisor's office will choose the recipients.

Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, who made the proposal along with colleague Joel Anderson, said it was important to support small businesses, who

were ``asked to sacrifice their livelihoods for the greater good'' once the pandemic began.

The county's many mom-and-pop...