City awards $430k to South St. Pete business owners

Inside the St. Petersburg College's Allstate Center, St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch congratulated business owners for participating in the city's first South St. Pete Microfund program aimed to help entrepreneurs continue their venture.

"I want to thank the City of St. Pete and The Greenhouse," Danita Harrison, a professional photographer, said after receiving her certificate of completion Sept. 25. "I applied for so many grants and couldn't get there."

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The wait is over: St. Pete has a chief equity officer

St. Petersburg’s landmark 2021 Structural Racism Study urged city officials to establish a chief equity officer position; Mayor Ken Welch announced that he created the role in May.

In August, Welch pledged to fill the position by the fall. He publicly named Lenice C. Emanuel the city's first chief equity officer today.

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