<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Kelly, Great work on getting a site visit. I will contact you off line and set up a time to chat about some important talking points.<div class="">Thank you, Kendall<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Kelly Haverkate <<a href="mailto:kellyjhaverkate@gmail.com" class="">kellyjhaverkate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Kevin,<div class="">My representative actually took me up on a meeting. SO, I'm meeting with him on Friday morning, downtown.</div><div class="">I'm happy to talk about all these things.... If there are more talking points, let me know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kelly</div><div class="">Downtown Dayton</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 12:02 PM Kevin Teater <<a href="mailto:kevin@downtownbeaverton.org" class="">kevin@downtownbeaverton.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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We talked a lot about advocating for the Main Street Revitalization Grant with our state legislators. How would you all feel about advocating your legislators to return for a special session to implement some commercial relief strategies? It sounds like
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they are thinking about it</a>.</div>
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What are some of the strategies you feel would be most helpful in your communities? These three are on the top of my mind:</div>
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<li class="">Commercial eviction freeze extension.</li><li class="">To-go cocktail approval.</li><li class="">Financial relief for restaurants (at a minimum. Businesses of all types could use it though).</li><ol style="list-style:lower-alpha" class="">
<li class="">I'd want to see some equitable unrolling of financial relief though. Organizations like ours can help people apply if there is enough time in the process. First-come, first-serve hasn't worked well here.</li></ol>
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PO Box 311</div>
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