🌱 Could your new Fort Bragg business qualify for first-year city fee waivers?
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- Could your new Fort Bragg business qualify for first-year city fee waivers?
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📰 News we're reading
• Fort Bragg Launches New First-Year Business Incentive Program (advocate-news.com) — Fort Bragg is rolling out a new First-Year Fee Waiver Program this summer that can save qualifying small businesses up to about $3,000 in city startup fees. Independently owned ventures with ten or fewer employees may get key permit and license fees waived, with priority for downtown and long-vacant spaces. The two-year pilot is capped at $25,000 annually and aims to jump‑start local entrepreneurship and fill empty storefronts. 
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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