Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce: Your Weekly News – May 23, 2022
Event News
Business After Hours
Join us for a fun evening of networking, meeting new friends and building lasting relationships in the community. This month’s Business After Hours is hosted by Mammoth Coffee Roasting Company and taking place on Tuesday, May 25.
Delve Into DEI
The Chamber takes on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion! Our inaugural “Delve into DEI” on June 2 at Mammoth Coffee Roasting Company will feature a discussion around the Harvard Business Review article “Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter”.
Click here for details and to register
Events Calendar
Tuesday, May 24
- Business After Hours
5:00pm @ MCRC - Free Stress Management Class
5:00pm-7:00pm
Thursday, May 26
- Community Coffee
8:30am-9:30am
May 27 & 28
- Dead Winter Carpenters @ T-Bar Social Club
Thursday, June 2
- Delve into DEI
4:30pm-5:30pm
Chamber News
4th of July Parade Floats
The Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce 4th of July Parade float entry is now open! Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to promote your business or organization to thousands of parade spectators. The parade will take place Monday, July 4 and registration is open through June 20. Pricing is: $55 for non-Chamber participants, $40 for Chamber members and $20 for non-profits.
Ribbon Cuttings
The Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce hosted several ribbon cuttings the past two months. We’d like to congratulate the following businesses on their recent openings!
Members Corner
Business News & Resources
4 Job Killer Bills Stopped, 1 Tax Bill Stalled
California Chamber of Commerce policy advocates working alongside advocates from allied business groups succeeded in stopping four CalChamber-job killer bills from advancing in the Legislature this year. One of these job killer bills has been gutted and amended, and will now propose tax credits for clean energy.
Click here for details
ServSafe Alcohol
The ServSafe Alcohol course has been approved by the California ABC to meet state training requirements (CA Assembly Bill 1221) that will begin July 1st, 2022. This course is designed to educate food service employees on how alcohol influences behavior, identifies signs of intoxication, outlines legal issues that may arise in an alcohol-related incident and teaches ways to prevent over-serving.
Click here for details on the training
SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to California Small Businesses
The Small Business Administration offers disaster assistance in the form of low interest loans to businesses, nonprofit organizations, homeowners, and renters located in regions affected by declared disasters. SBA also provides eligible small businesses and nonprofit organizations with working capital to help overcome the economic injury of a declared disaster.
Click here for further details
Required California Retirement Savings Plan
Beginning June 30, 2022 all California employers with at least five California employees are required to offer their California employees a retirement savings plan, either from the private market or by registering to participate in the new CalSavers program.
There are a few Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce members that can assist businesses with setting up a private plan for their employees.
Colin Fernie at Mammoth Wealth Management
Michael Oliver at Pacific Advisors
Quart Kim at Edward Jones
Click here for details on CalSavers
California Dream Fund
The $35 million California Dream Fund Program will provide micro grants up to $10,000 to seed entrepreneurship and small business creation in California. Areas of focus will be child care, service and cottage food, green technology, retail and manufacturing. If you are interested in this program please email the Small Business Development Center in Bakersfield at [email protected].
SBDC Events & Webinars
Our local Small Business Development Center at CSU Bakersfield holds several events, trainings and webinars through the year. Click here to access their calendar of events.
California Rebuilding Fund Loan Program
The California Rebuilding Fund is a loan program to support California’s small businesses—especially those located in economically disadvantaged and historically under-banked areas of the state. Businesses who employed 50 or less full-time equivalent employees and had gross revenues of less than $5 million or below in 2019 are eligible to apply. The loans are flexible, transparent and are designed to help businesses access the capital and advisory services they need to get through these challenging economic times.
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(From Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce)
