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Oct 16, 2026
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
He reached out to his close friend, Rob Hamilton, for assistance with cleaning up the shop, as well as finding a financial solution to repair the roof.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
One solution came from the governor's office as they announced that Florida Commerce activated the Florida Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Program, making $10 million available in short-term, zero interest loans for businesses impacted by Hurricane Isaias.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
Hamilton says the first step is assessing the extent of the damage.
Rob HamiltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A lot of it, a lot of it right now is going through things and figuring out what's damaged, what's not, um, what can be sold, you know, regular price, what has to be salvaged.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
Resources for businesses in need of help are available on the state's disaster response website.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
I'm Randy Buxta.
Tom FlaniganHOST
Small business owners who need assistance are urged to reach out to the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida Commerce for more information on how to receive funding for repairs.
Tom FlaniganHOST
Our regular Capital Report correspondents are Alayah Cross, Gina Jordan, Regan McCarthy, Randy Buxta, and Tristan Wood.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
He reached out to his close friend, Rob Hamilton, for assistance with cleaning up the shop, as well as finding a financial solution to repair the roof.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
One solution came from the governor's office, as they announced that Florida Commerce activated the Florida Small Business Emergency Bridge Loan Program, making $10 million available in short-term, zero interest loans for businesses impacted by Hurricane Isaias.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
Hamilton says the first step is assessing the extent of the damage.
Rob HamiltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A lot of it, a lot of it right now is going through things and figuring out what's damaged, what's not, um, what can be sold, you know, regular price, what has to be salvaged.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
Resources for businesses in need of help are available on the state's disaster response website.
Randy BuxtaCORRESPONDENT
I'm Randy Buxta.
Tom FlaniganHOST
Small business owners who need assistance are urged to reach out to the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida Commerce for more information on how to receive funding for repairs.
Tom FlaniganHOST
Our regular Capital Report correspondents are Alayah Cross, Gina Jordan, Regan McCarthy, Randy Buxta, and Tristan Wood.
Todd ThompsonGUEST
Um, there's an, uh, website.
Todd ThompsonGUEST
If you go to floridajobs.org/disasterrecovery/ebl, uh, you can find out more information about how you can, uh, apply for, for those, uh, for those bridge loans.
MegHOST
Can you give that one more time-
Todd ThompsonGUEST
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Jonel HeinGUEST
As of July, we have gone to every single 43 counties that we have in person.
Jonel HeinGUEST
A lot of it has been helpful to go with our rural roadshow with Florida Commerce and the Florida SBDC Network and get boots on the ground in those communities that we haven't been to really since the pandemic.
Tom KindredHOST
And I know, Clem, that you obviously are very active.
Tom KindredHOST
You have partnered with us on multiple trainings.
Eric PooleHOST
The State Land Planning Agency didn't go away, but it got renamed into, at the time, Department of Economic Opportunity.
Eric PooleHOST
It's now Commerce.
Eric PooleHOST
Concurrency was scaled back with respect to making transportation concurrency, optional schools, optional parks.
Eric PooleHOST
DRIs that year started kind of the phase out of DRIs.