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San Leandro Commercial Broadband Strategy <br />10. City Business Assistance Grants <br />The City of San Leandro has incentive programs that provide small grants and <br />forgivable loans for eligible business projects. Traditionally these programs have been <br />used to support facade improvement projects and energy efficiency projects. <br />10.1. Recommendation 7: support business connections to broadband <br />services <br />A broadband connections program should be added to the list of incentives the City <br />offers, in order to assist local businesses in meeting the upfront capital costs of <br />connecting to broadband networks. Doing so will benefit small, medium and large <br />businesses in the short term and improve the long term viability of buildings that will <br />also benefit from improved broadband access. <br />Making broadband an eligible use of these programs would not necessarily require <br />additional funding if broadband projects were simply included as part of the current <br />budget appropriation. <br />16 July 2012 Tellus Venture Associates Page 37 <br />