KINGSTON – Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan has unveiled his Resilience Economic initiative for when the time is favorable with the decline of COVID-19.
His plan – Recover, Reopen, and Realign – is aimed at supporting county businesses and workers through the crisis and ensure the county emerges stronger on the other side.
“We are not quite yet ready to open everything, but we are in a position where we can actually do the work and the thinking and the planning and get all the tools in the toolbox and all the levers ready to pull so that when we are ready and when we can do it responsibly, we can go quickly and we can get people back to work, we can get the economy going again and hopefully we can actually reemerge from this even in a better plan than when we entered,” Ryan said.
The initiatives include a wide array of plans and resources to drive economic recovery and resilience including providing business mentors to help businesses safely reopen and adjust their business models; helping businesses and workers more easily apply for federal and state loans and economic assistance, and making a series of targeted economic development investments in high-value sectors to drive future growth in the county.
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