The COVID-19 crisis has put the American economy into a tailspin and that’s certainly true in Ottawa. City Commissioner, Mike Skidmore, is a Branch Manager with Goppert Bank and he says the rescue package passed by the U. S. Congress has a lot of unknowns:
The City Commission has approved a Community Development Block Grant of about $230 thousand to be used as loans to local businesses who are in a financial crunch and need some quick money to stay in operation.