Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter yesterday announced the formation of the Mayor’s Economic Recovery Task Force to identify actions to support the needs of Oshawa businesses impacted by Covid-19.
The task force will focus on economic support and recovery for local businesses, including relief measures, resources and supports that are available and guiding discussions with all levels of government to advocate on behalf of the local business community, said a city media release.
Chaired by Regional Councillor Tito-Dante Marimpietri, Chair of the Development Services Committee, members of the task force include, but are not limited to Mayor Dan Carter, the Greater Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Oshawa Business Improvement Association, the Durham Region Association of Realtors, the post-secondary institutions in Oshawa, the development industry, the financial sector and the employment support sector.
“The Mayor’s Economic Recovery Task Force is committed to helping our local businesses who are facing unprecedented, challenging times,” said Mayor Dan Carter. “Through the Task Force, we are ensuring that the city is fully focused on responding to the evolving economic challenges of Covid-19 and supporting our businesses now during this difficult time and making sure that when the day comes, we are well prepared to shift into recovery and move forward together.”
“Covid-19 has presented us with extremely trying circumstances and an unprecedented time of disruptive uncertainty. Everyone in our community continues to do their part to follow our Medical Officer’s recommendations. I am immensely grateful toward those providing front line services during every single day often without much rest. In the midst of all this, everyone’s lives have been impacted, including those of so many local small business owners and their employees,” said Regional Councillor Marimpietri.
Meanwhile, in his Tuesday, April 14 video message, Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter continues to urge community members to follow government orders not to gather in groups of more than five people and health authority guidelines to stay home as much as possible and maintain physical distancing to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
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