Yesterday, the San Antonio City Council approved their Recovery and Resiliency Plan to assist residents and businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan was developed around five guiding principles:
- Public Health and Safety,
- Equity,
- Braided Funding,
- Community Resilience, and
- Well-being.
The plan is comprised of four pillars:
- Workforce Development,
- Housing Security,
- Small Business Support, and
- Digital Inclusion.
Under workforce development, the city will allocate $80 million for workforce training to an estimated 10,000 individuals impacted by COVID-19. Funding will be used for wraparound support and career navigation, education and training, and job placement opportunities.
Housing Security will receive $50.5 million in this plan. Some of the strategies funded under this pillar include fair-housing counseling, family independence initiative, door-to-door engagement initiative, homeless shelters, and domestic violent prevention.
Under the plan $33.1 million will be allocated to small businesses. Under this pillar funding will support grants to micro businesses, personal protective equipment (PPE), the Arts, door-to-door engagement, and a virtual resilience hub for small business.
The Digital Inclusion pillar will receive $27.3 million, and funding will be used for distance learning, in-home internet access to students K-12 and college, and the City of San Antonio recovery portal of information for residents and businesses.
The four pillars will now be assigned to the City’s council committees for discussion of an implementation strategy. That work will take place over the month of June with implementation July 1.
For a complete summary and list of specific strategies funded in the COSA Recovery and Resiliency Plan,
click here.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Reyes, VP of Public Policy at
sreyes@sachamber.org or by phone at 210-299-2162.
