[OMS_MANAGERS] CARES Dollars for businesses

[Courtney Williams]

Hey Shannen,

The City of Independence created a Small Business Scratch-it promotion during the holidays that utilized CARES Act funds that was really successful. We worked with a company to create a custom scratch-it, each scratch-it was a winner with prizes worth $5, $10 or $25 that customers received when they made a purchase and could then be put towards their next purchase at any participating business. We had a mix of retail and restaurant businesses participate with each business getting 75-250 scratch-its to hand out to their customers. This worked well to get people back into the businesses to make another purchase, and was great because our community was happy to get essentially free money to spend locally. At the end of the promotion, I worked with each business to reimburse them for the total amount of scratch-its they redeemed, so it was a win-win-win for our community.

It worked so well that we are creating a Love Local campaign for the month of February, which will include another scratch-it promotion, twice as many participating businesses and will be focused on our local restaurants and bars. I included some photos for you and am happy to talk more about the specifics of the promotions if you need them.

Warmly,
Courtney


Courtney Williams
Downtown Manager

Office 503.837.1195 | Fax 503.606.3282
www.ci.independence.or.us<http://www.ci.independence.or.us/>
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From: OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at omls.oregon.gov> On Behalf Of A Sight for Sport Eyes via OMS_MANAGERS
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 11:02 AM
To: oms_managers at omls.oregon.gov
Subject: [OMS_MANAGERS] CARES Dollars for businesses

I am the chair of the Economic Development committee for the city of West Linn(as well as a board member of our local main street).  With the CARES Act extended, we are having an emergency meeting of the EDC to figure out how we can best spend the money to directly assist local businesses.  Our city was slow to act last year, telling us CARES dollars couldn’t be spent on anything for businesses, only for the city itself. After our main street director worked hard to correct them on this, we want to figure out more ways to use them. We initially bought tents and heaters for our restaurants.  Looking to help more than just the restaurants.  The city is more likely to go forward with our recommendations if we have specific examples of what other cities have done.  So I’m just looking for what other cities have done to help convince our city that money can be used that way.

Thanks!
Shannen




A Sight for Sport Eyes
1553 11th St.
West Linn, OR 97068
503-699-4160
888-223-2669
Fax: 888-240-6551
www.sporteyes.com<http://www.sporteyes.com>

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