Daviess County begins making short and long term plans for economic recovery

Daviess County begins making short and long term plans for economic recovery

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Folks all around the wabash valley are feeling economic impact of this pandemic.

It's not going anywhere anytime soon.

That's why many counties are looking to the future.

News 10 bureau chief gary brian tells us what daviess county is doing to prepare.

Pk} "main street here in downtown washington is beginning to start to look like normal as more people come out to shop.

However for businesses here in daviess county the fight to stay afloat has just begun."

County leaders are currently working on setting up a small business recovery program.

Daviess county has received 160 thousand dollars to help businesses in trouble.

Right now officials hope to use this money as grants for organizations who need them.

Each grant is expected to be worth up to five thousand dollars.

"right now the economic development corporation is working with our commisioners and southern indiana development commision to fine tune that program.

Make sure we have all the kinks worked out, or as many as we can, before we are able to roll that out."

While working on the short term...the county is also making plans for the long term.

This includes setting up the advanced daviess county coalition.

The coalition will focus on three areas: growth and retention, quality of life, and supply chain creation.

"there's a lot of talk on the horizon about creating regional supply chains as opposed to the globalized network that we've developed.

Because covid-19 has proven how a pandemic of this nature can significantly disrupt that supply chain."

Making short and long term plans to make sure small business stays solid in daviess county.

"those are our neighbors.

Those are the folks that we go to school with, that we go to work with, those that we see out at resturaunts right, with our friends and our family.

It is critical for us to support those small businesses during this time."

If your business is in need of help, we've put the contact information of the daviess county economic development corporation on our website, at wthitv.com, just click on this story.

In daviess county, gary brian news 10."

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