The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors and the county Workforce Development Board announced the opening of a call center Thursday serving local businesses affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The WDB COVID-19 call center will operate Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to the Workforce Development Board, which is part of the county’s Employment and Human Services Department.
The call center will offer resources to businesses like how to handle layoffs and insurance needs and how to access federal loans and payroll subsidies.
Small business owners can contact the call center at (833) 320-1919. The call center began answering calls Thursday morning.
The best way to help businesses is to let them open.
They are open – it is up to patrons to help their favorite businesses survive this situation.
Exactly, a better headline would have been “Contra Costa Announces Opening of ALL BUSINESSES, effective NOW!”
This is ridiculous. Let the doomsayers, the scared, and the anti-Americans stay at home…let the rest of us free!
So what kind of real help do they get after calling? Some have already closed and will not reopen because it’s too late for them.
Open our businesses!
I feel bad for the poor folks handling the calls. They are going to get an earful from some very frustrated business owners.
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OPEN now. This is not ok
How much will this cost us? The small businesses need to be saved. But I’m not trusting of how monies are being spent. Any way to document the funds being spent?
Wait, real help for the homeless scum but just a feel better phone call help for the ones who really need and deserve it, i get it
With unemployment at all time record highs, would the money from doing business actually be there to support small business?
what good does a phone call do when business’ are on lock down. Help should have been provided the first two weeks, now it is already too late for some.
This is just wrong in s many ways….
..help the homeless…
…release the prisoner…
but keep business’ locked up?
Geez thanks. I don’t need a phone number to call and discuss how screwed my business is. I needed help from sba but that didn’t happen so how about letting us go back to work.
OPEN OPEN OPEN. They don’t need a phone number; they need to OPEN. We can chew gum and talk at the same time. We can be safe AND work. It’s been 6 weeks, people. If I had the virus, I’d only be at home for 14 days. Think about that.
About two weeks too late, those morons on the Bd. of Supes.
108RS
If they really want to help small businesses then LET THEM OPEN BACK UP
This isn’t rocket science, except maybe it is for liberals
Sounds like a little too little too late.
It will still take a while for the customers to comeback.
Let people work. Get rid of all these scare tactics and put America back on track. We’re bleeding money everyday because of this stupid shelter in place.