East Grand Forks council heard a pitch this week intended to help promote the city’s business sector.
Gary Shields urged members to consider putting public dollars into a grassroots campaign to help struggling businesses recover from the pandemic. Shields says The Chamber does a great job but businesses in East Grand Forks make up less than ten-percent of the overall membership. He says a stand-along campaign targeting East Grand Forks would help during these “unique” times. “The Chamber is there to do a great job for us – but we need to help ourselves a bit and it’s a way to try and get a movement to say let’s do this and see what happens.”
The council took no immediate action on the request.
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