{"id":85394,"date":"2015-10-21T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=85394"},"modified":"2015-10-22T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:57:33","slug":"small-business-dev-cntr-looking-to-fill-financial-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=85394","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Dev. Cntr. looking to fill financial gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/business.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28269\" alt=\"business\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/business.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The South Central Dakota Regional Council Board received information at Wednesday\u2019s meeting that the Small Business Development Center is looking for partners in the community to help fill the gap in a $200,000 state deficit.<\/p>\n<p>David Martin said that he was unaware of the deficit when he started his job in February.<\/p>\n<p>In order to close the deficit, Martin said SBDC is seeking additional financial support locally and asking that each region provide the required local match back to the state and federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The SBDC is a national agency that trains with entrepreneurs and small businesses. Martin said the agency faced new regulations set by the federal government in North Dakota this year. Federal funding, based on population, requires a loan match by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Matching funds are provided by the governor, the Legislature, the North Dakota Commerce Department and local resources, Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>In other business, the regional council discussed urgent requests for Community Development Block Grant funding.<\/p>\n<p>A request was approved for $34,7000 for a new sewer main in Kathryn. Previously, the former sewer was damaged during construction for a different project.<\/p>\n<p>Work is expected to begin next week to drill a new water well in Lehr after one of the cities two wells collapsed after a grant was previously approved through the Governor\u2019s Fund of $179,035.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The South Central Dakota Regional Council Board received information at Wednesday\u2019s meeting that the Small Business Development Center is looking for partners in the community to help fill the gap in a $200,000 state deficit. David Martin said that he was unaware of the deficit when he started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85398,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85394\/revisions\/85398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}