The owner of Braymiller Market will have to wait a few days longer to find out if the Buffalo Common Council will give it the $562,000 in Covid pandemic-related funds he says it needs to keep the downtown store open.
If Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has his way, $60 million of federal Covid-19 relief funding originally intended for public benefit projects will fill budget shortfalls and go to small businesses. But local groups have raised questions about the process.
The Council did not take action Tuesday on the Braymiller request, but instead will hold a still-to-be-scheduled special session by the end of the month to vote on that and the allocation of $60 million in other pandemic-related funds.
In the meantime, Council members said they would look into an issue surrounding the company that was chosen to administer funds. Some Council members want that company to be based in Buffalo, but the firm that was being considered for that role, National Development Council, is…
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