ORLANDO, Fla. – In a virtual meeting Monday, the Orlando city council voted to help struggling businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic, many of those businesses closed for weeks now.
Orlando has 20 designated Main Street Programs, nonprofits that bring in money through membership and the city matches those funds of up to $50,000 each year.
Those Main Street programs include: The Milk District, Audubon Park Garden District, Church Street District, College Park Partnership, Downtown South, Gateway Orlando, Ivanhoe Village, Mills 50, Orlando Tech Association and Thornton Park District.
On Monday, the city council voted to lift restrictions to allow those Main Street programs to draw money from their funds without having the required match.