Five City Council members got an earful from business owners who complained about the grant process in which many were denied funds.
Small business owners in San Antonio say ongoing construction projects, like this one along North New Braunfels Avenue in January, have harmed them.City Council members got an earful from at least a dozen small business owners last week, who say the city’s efforts to support them in the wake of the pandemic and during ongoing construction have fallen short.
After the budget presentation, small business owners, one after the other, shared their ongoing anguish over a variety of issues: rebuilding after the pandemic, onerous grant requirements, insufficient grant amounts and the city’s procurement policies in the wake of its latestSan Antonio lost 40% of its small businesses during the pandemic, said Gonzalez, higher than the national average of 34%.
“That came out to about $24 a day,” said Augustine “Augie” Cortez Jr., owner of Augie’s Alamo City BBQ during the meeting. He described an “eight-foot wall” that’s been in front of his eponymous restaurant on Broadway since 2020. “I didn’t qualify for the additional grants that came around,” he said.
“We submitted more and more paperwork, and we all got denied, and we don’t know why,” she said. “Don’t force us to go get your job.” McKee-Rodriguez said via text message Monday that there is an effort to use some ARPA money to fund a program for the upcoming fiscal year, but he prefers the request make its way through the committees and the full council, “so we can do a community engagement process and redefine the procedures and learn from the results of the existing program .
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