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A
My
name
is
Henry
Pyatt
I'm,
the
small
business
and
neighborhood
redevelopment
manager
in
the
Bureau
of
Neighborhood
Empowerment,
here
at
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
today,
we're
holding
a
small
business
resource
fair.
Those
are
events
that
we
hold
all
around
the
city
as
well
as
here
at
the
City
County
Building,
to
help
entrepreneurs
from
all
over
town
learn
about
the
different
resources
that
are
available
to
help
them
start
and
grow
their
businesses.
A
Here
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
we
also
have
the
government
edition
resource
fairs,
which
enable
entrepreneurs
to
connect
with
the
folks
who
make
the
rules
that
they
need
to
deal
with
in
order
to
exist
as
a
business
entity.
Here
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
We
don't
want
it
to
be
mysterious
and
that's
why
we're
all
here
today.
So
this
particular
small
business
resource
fair,
is
about
food
policy
and
food
retailing.
A
Businesses
I
have
learned
recently
because
of
some
of
our
partners
in
the
nonprofit
world
that
you're
about
to
meet
that
the
federal
regulations
for
accepting
SNAP
benefits
as
a
food
retailer
have
changed
and
that's
an
important
program
that
a
lot
of
our
food
retailers
use
here
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
So
we
want
to
make
sure
everybody
knows
how
to
follow
those
rules
and
get
food
into
folks
hands
who
need
them
at
a
reasonable
price.
A
So
I'm
going
to
introduce
our
panelists
and
then
I'll
ask
them
a
series
of
questions
to
help
elucidate
some
of
the
ways
they
can
help
you
with
your
business
and
then
we'll
open
up
the
floor
to
audience
questions.
First,
we
have
Joshua
Berman
from
just
harvest.
For
30
years,
just
harvest
has
been
on
the
forefront
of
fighting
hunger
here
in
Allegheny
County.
They
work
with
people
in
communities
to
help
improve
food
access.
A
They've
closed
1,100
loans
for
approximately
130
million
dollars
and
has
recently
committed
to
investing
100
million
dollars
more
in
low
to
moderate-income
communities
by
2020.
They
have
a
healthy
food
access
financing
program
that
was
launched
in
2014.
It's
provided
over
2
million
dollars
in
financing
to
25
food
based
projects
in
western
Pennsylvania.
A
It's
a
really
wonderful
tool
for
folks
looking
to
expand
what
they're
offering
and
knowing
that
the
capital
equipment
that's
required
for
that
can
be
a
little
more
expensive
and
finally,
Shelley
Denko
de
is
the
urban
agriculture
and
food
policy
planner
in
the
Department
of
City
Planning.
Here
at
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
the
Department
of
City
Planning,
provides
guidance
in
zoning
land-use
and
permitting
Shelley
also
administers
the
adopt
a
lot
program
that
provides
access
to
city
on
land
for
food
and
flower,
gardens
and
she's.
A
Also
the
city's
first
food
planner,
who
works
to
develop
food
policy
programs
in
an
effort
to
enhance
local
and
regional
food
infrastructure
and
create
equitable
food
access
for
residents.
So
now
that
we've
got
the
intro
of
our
panelists,
we're
going
to
ask
a
couple
I'm
going
to
ask
a
few
questions
of
them
and
give
them
a
chance
to
more
fully
explain
what
they
offer
so
Joshua.
A
B
Thank
you
so
much
Henry,
and
thanks
for
everyone
who
is
here
today,
we're
really
excited
to
have
this
panel,
so
to
jump
right
into
what
the
main
points
of
the
snap
retail
changes
are.
You
now
have
two
in
the
four
staple
food
categories,
which
are
your
vegetables
in
your
fruits,
your
dairy
products,
your
meat
fish
and
protein,
and
your
bread
and
cereal
category.
In
those
four
categories.
B
You
now
have
to
have
seven
total
items
in
each
of
those
categories,
and
you
have
to
have
a
depth
of
stock
of
three
units
for
each
of
those
products
as
well.
What
that
really
means
is
you
do
have
to
have
eighty
four
items
stocked
on
your
shelf
at
any
one
given
time
in
order
to
be
certified
as
a
snap
retailer.
Another
big
component
of
this
is
that
now
within
the
USDA
policies,
you
can't
do
more
than
50%
of
your
total
food
sales
in
hot
and
prepared
foods.
B
This
is
something
that
will
affect
businesses
and
source
store
owners,
particularly
corner
store
owners
who
have
been
doing
hot
and
prepared
food
out
of
their
locations.
There
are
really
easy
ways
to
sort
of
navigate
this,
and
there
are
some
really
great
ways
that
store
owners
can
actually
enhance
their
overall
product
offering.
This
is
a
great
opportunity
to
be
able
to
say
to
yourself.
B
For
instance,
some
of
the
things
that
you
can
now
add
to
your
store
within
the
meat
and
dairy
categories,
our
plant-based
alternative
products,
things
like
soy
and
nut
based
products
that
previously
wasn't
allowed
those
getting
countable
categories.
So
we
can
help
you
navigate
those
changes
and
we're
happy
to
be
a
resource
in
that,
but
Thanks.
A
So
up
next
before
we
go
to
questions,
I
wanted
to
go
to
Brittany
Hoffman
from
tobacco
free,
Allegheny
Brittany.
How
can
educate
EES
help
improve
my
business
or
someone
else's
business
and
the
health
and
well-being
of
their
customers?
Yeah.
C
So,
there's
two
aspects
to
that:
improving
your
business.
What
we're
really
aiming
to
do
with
the
healthy
corner
store
project
is
provide
you
with
better
ways
to
do
some
of
the
things
you're
already
doing
so
we
have
a
sell,
healthy
guide
that
we
work
out
of
to
provide
small
10-minute
trainings,
where
we
come
in
every
couple
months
and
just
talk
with
you
about
what
are
some
of
the
issues
you
are
seeing.
C
So
some
of
the
things
that
are
in
our
sell,
healthy
guide
include
how
to
best
store
the
new
fruits
that
you're
bringing
in
to
your
business.
Some
fruits
should
be
refrigerated.
Some
shouldn't
some
affect
the
fruits
that
they're
sitting
next
to
when
they
give
off
ethanol
and
I
want
to
make
sure
I
have
the
right
gas
and
some
of
them
help
to
counteract
the
gas
that's
being
given
off
in
terms
of
helping
your
customers.
C
D
A
E
So
we're
looking
at
markets
and
food,
innovators
and
food
entrepreneurs
and
across
the
spectrum
to
really
bring
some
of
those
food
access
solutions
to
to
life
and
what
Bridgeway
is
doing
to
work
with
those
those
clients
as
to
we
can
offer
financing
packages.
We
have
some
micro
grants
that
we're
offering
to
help
take
on
some
of
that
risk
of
expanding
your
inventory
or
changing
your
business
a
little
bit.
It
can
be.
E
Some
of
the
some
of
that
process
can
be
a
little
bit
daunting
and
be
a
financial
burden
and
we're
we're
here
to
walk
through
that.
Alongside
our
business
owners,
we
have
programs
that
are
loans
that
start
as
low
as
$3,000
and
they
can
go
up
to
if
you're
looking
to
purchase
real
estate
to
open
a
store,
we
can
help
support
that
as
well
and
kind
of
everything
in
between
equipment
inventory,
building
renovations.
E
E
We
can
really
help
you
navigate
that
process,
and
that
can
be
huge
when
you're
stepping
your
first
foot
into
into
this
into
this
new
space,
whether
it's
an
existing
business
or
you're,
making
that
next
growth
decision
we
can,
we
can
help
you
navigate
that
and
happy
to
answer
any
questions
along
those
lines
and
we
have
our
table
over
there.
We
can
talk
through
any
specifics,
but
we
have
a
lot
to
offer.
Thank.
A
You
very
much
I
know
a
lot
of
entrepreneurs.
All
around
the
city
have
been
really
really
a
pleased
by
the
help
they've
received
from
Bridgeway
and
you've
been
a
part
of
financing
capita
stacks
for
a
lot
of
really
great
entrepreneurial
projects.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
continuing
to
provide
those
services
up
next
Shelley
Danko
day.
Our
urban
agriculture
and
food
policy,
planner
in
the
Department
of
City
Planning
here
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
Shelley,
runs
a
whole
lot
of
programs
and
there's
a
lot
of
ways
that
a
food
businessman
interface
with
them.
A
So
the
question
I
have
for
you.
Shelley,
is
what
what
are
some
of
the
ways
that
the
City
Planning
Department
or
more
specifically,
you
and
your
specific
capabilities
within
the
department,
are
able
to
help
a
food
business
and
what
are
some
of
the
services
you
might
offer
that
they
might
want
to
take
advantage
of
well.
D
The
City
Planning
includes
the
Zoning
Department,
which
permits
it
can
give
you
permits
for
land
use
and
location
operation
permits.
Essentially
so,
whereas
Allegheny
County
Health
Department,
does
your
food
safety
permits?
We
do
your
operational,
like
your
you're
building.
Your
occupancy
permits
that
sort
of
thing
specifically
what
I
can
help
you
with
is.
If
you're
looking
to
grow
food
and
sell
the
food
you
grow
on
city-owned
land
I
can
help
you
with
that.
D
We
have
the
adopt
a
lot
program
which
allows
people
relatively
simple
access
to
city-owned
properties
for
food
flour,
rain
gardens
and
we
have
a
market
stanley's
where
you
could
sell
what
you
grow.
There's
also
the
urban
AG
code,
if
you're
not
familiar
with
that,
we
updated
that
in
2015,
which
now
allows
you
to
grow.
It's
permitted
by
right
to
grow
food
on
private
land
as
well,
and
it's
this
very
simple
permit
for
that
and
other
agricultural
activities
like
raising
chickens
and
bees
and
goats.
So.
A
I'm
getting
rid
of
those
pesky
government
regulations,
I
love
it.
So
next
I
wanted
to
open
up
the
floor
to
questions
at
events
like
this.
We
have
a
lot
of
entrepreneurs
from
around
town
that
are
working
on
a
lot
of
different
projects
and
there's
no
way
that
any
of
us
can
anticipate
all
the
questions
and
problems
that
folks
might
need
to
address.
So
is
there
anyone
in
the
audience
that
would
like
to
ask
a
question
of
any
or
all
of
our
panelists.
A
Cool
hearing
none,
so
we
do
these
small
business
resource
fairs
to
help
introduce
all
the
different
folks
that
are
either
currently
or
in
the
future
will
be
entrepreneurs
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
So
that's
why
all
these
resource
providers
are
here
who
you're
not
seeing
on
camera
includes
a
whole
panoply
of
services
that
can
help
you
with
financing
help
you
acquire
a
building
help
you
become
part
of
a
neighborhood
that
you're
interested
in
doing
business
and
help
you
figure
out.
A
Your
merchandising
plan
help
you
figure
out
all
the
different
aspects
of
running
a
business
that
you're
going
to
need
to
know
on
top
of
simply
the
skill
that
you're
really
good
at
that
you
wish
to
purvey.
So
that's
why
we
run
these
fairs.
So
if
anyone's
interested
in
more
information
on
those,
all
you
need
to
do
is
go
to
Pittsburgh
PA,
gov
click
on
the
mayor's
tab
and
go
to
the
small
business.
A
They're
right
down
the
block
from
us
they've
got
a
really
easy
to
find
web
page
at
ura
org,
where
you
can
find
access
to
all
their
entrepreneurial
services,
including
financing
and
so
I'd,
be
remiss
not
to
point
those
things
out,
panelist
any
other
ideas
that
you
want
to
point
out
about
the
services
you
offer
to
food
entrepreneurs,
or
do
you
have
any
questions
for
each
other?
I
was.
D
A
So
I'd
like
I'd
like
to
introduce
Rochelle
Lillian.
She
is
a
loan
officer
at
the
Urban
Redevelopment
Authority.
If
you're
looking
to
finance
a
project,
you
may
well
work
with
Rochelle
or
one
of
her
colleagues
on
figuring
out
what
the
best
financing
package
would
be
for
your
business
Rochelle.
Can
you
tell
us
about
a
food
entrepreneur?
You've
worked
with
recently.
F
Sure,
well,
we
want
we
do
work
with
a
lot
of
restaurants.
Do
you
mean
specifically
or
just
in
general,
well
I,
understand,
restaurants.
In
general,
I
mean
we
have
helped
a
lot
just
because
it's
been
harder
to
raise
capital
for
restaurants.
So
really
the
URA
we're
here
to
look
at
the
gap
in
the
project.
We're
not
here
to
take
on
the
whole
project.
I
guess
I
should
start
by
paying
city
of
Pittsburgh.
F
Business
has
to
do
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
and
then,
as
you're,
going
through
your
business
plan
and
putting
your
budget
together
and
you're.
You
know
just
looking
at
different
avenues,
we're
here
to
make
the
project
work,
so
we're
the
gap
lender.
So
really
you
work
with
the
other
folks,
which
I
work
a
lot
with
bridge
way.
F
Other
banks
love
to
work
with
Hebrew
free
loan
associations,
though
wherever
your
financing
is
I
mean
we
could
be
that
last
piece
of
the
puzzle
just
to
make
it
all
work,
and
so
we
have
loan
programs
really
for
any
furniture,
fixtures
equipment,
working
capital.
Anything
you
may
need
acquisition
as
long
as
you're
in
the
city
and
then
and
then
facade
programs.
That's
what
everybody
likes,
because
that's
a
grant
so
zero
percent
on
the
exterior,
$5,000
matching
grants
or
in
certain
designated
areas
that
can
go
up
to
thirty
thousand
thirty
one
thousand
five
hundred.
What.
F
B
I
would
actually
just
add
to
that
that
I,
you
know,
not
only
do
we
know
each
other
really
well,
but
we
are
able
to
coordinate
some
of
the
same
resources,
although
we
are
all
working
with
corner
stores,
there's
no
reason
to
sort
of
have
to
choose
between
one
of
us.
We
can
all
sort
of
work
collaboratively
together
and
I.
B
Think
the
funding
available
and
the
resources
available
do
really
stack
well
between
each
other
and
even
more
recently,
we've
begun
working
with
a
store
in
East
Liberty,
and
it's
been
a
really
natural
partnership
to
have
all
three
organizations
partner
together
working
for
the
benefit
of
one
community
in
one
store.
That's.
A
F
E
A
A
Yeah
I
guess
we're
going
to
wrap
up
this
panel
discussion.
I,
really
appreciate
you
guys
coming
out.
I
know
it's.
You
know
it's
really
hard
to
run
a
small
business
to
keep
your
shelves
stocked
to
make
sure
that
you're
keeping
an
eye
on
your
inventory
to
do
a
good
job
with
your
few
advertising
dollars
to
think
about
merchandising
and
all
the
other
things
you
got
to
think
about,
and
then
the
rules
change.
A
So
I
really
appreciate
you
guys
putting
in
an
effort
out
there
to
help
folks
understand
and
make
sure
they're
in
compliance
and
not
having
one
more
extra
headache.
I
want
to
point
out
to
everybody
who's
watching
here
today.
If
you
want
to
hook
up
with
any
of
these
Resource
Partners
you're
missing
any
information
or
if
you're
interested
in
attending
future
small
business
resource
fairs,
Pittsburgh,
PA,
gov,
click
on
mayor
Peduto,
tab
and
then
small
business
and
neighborhoods
we've
got
a
box
on
the
left
for
you
to
put
give
us
your
email.