City doles out $2.2M of $30M allotted for small-business grants as hiccups slow application process

Two hundred local companies have received just over $2 million as part of a $30 million small-business grant program started in June, according to the fund’s administrators. The Access to Capital Small Business Recovery Program was created by city government to help local companies recover from the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. A small-business recovery task force created by Mayor Vi Lyles and led by a combination of City Council members and business leaders worked with the…