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Join us for our Ambassador meeting and learn

how you can become a part of something special!

 Our next scheduled meeting is:

at Life's Grind Coffee House

Our 4th annual Wine, Beer, and Food Tasting Event will be held at the Littleton Center on Friday, February 4, 2022 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Additional information to follow.

Earlier today, we hosted a Redistricting Presentation brought to us by The California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

In case you missed it, you can view the recording (as a Google Drive link) here.

Additional helpful links can be found below:

Map Viewer (view Draft Maps): https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/map_viewer

or view as files here: https://www.wedrawthelinesca.org/draft_maps

Feedback form: https://airtable.com/shrQDD2ta2emnSzzO

Mapping tools: https://drawmycalifornia.org/

Register for this free, one-of-a-kind block party to learn how you can uniquely position your company for growth simply by adding TikTok to your social media advertising schedule. Although TikTok began with dance trends, it has transformed into a distinctive, powerful new growth channel for small businesses. It's platform allows you to tell your story, connect with a vast audience, and drive growth to your business in a new and innovative way.

This free virtual workshop will offer answers to the following three key questions:

This one-hour online workshop will be held on Thursday, November 18th at 10:00 am.

Here's an interesting face: every 11 seconds business servers, including small-business servers, are invaded by hackers that encrypt and hold their data hostage. Paying the ransom is one way to handle such an attack. This article will explain why that's not usually not the best way to handle a data-hostage situation. It will also provide real-life examples of what other businesses have done successfully instead of paying the ransom and what cybersecurity experts are saying.

Due to limitations in the number of bills legislators could pass this year to COVID-19, California luckily received far less employment-related bills than in prior years.

With that said, certain bills that did pass will drastically change how some employers do business in the state of California.

Your business may qualify for a tax credit! Available credits are limited, so don’t delay!

The 2021 Main Street Small Business Tax Credit II will provide COVID‑19 financial relief to qualified small business employers. We will be accepting online applications to reserve tax credits from November 1 - 30, 2021. The application period may close earlier if the credits run out. Qualified small business employers may apply to reserve $1,000 per net increase in qualified employees, up to $150,000 in tax credits to offset the tax due on either their income tax or sales and use tax return.

The credit applies to California small businesses that:

Credits are limited and available on a first come, first‑served basis. Find out how to apply, and if your small business qualifies, by visiting our 2021 Main Street Small Business Tax Credit II webpage.

Hello!

We are very happy to send this Save the Date for our next College and Career Fair for the Galt High School District!

Galt College and Career Fair

March 9, 2022

12:00pm-3:00pm

Please save this date and join us! This year, we are partnering with the City of Galt's March for Health Day! March for Health will be held in the morning and the College and Career Fair will follow in the second half. This will take place in town, open to the community, including our high school students, who are out of school at 12:15 pm.

We expect a large crowd! We are excited to share college and career opportunities, including entry level jobs available to our students, graduates, and other community members. More details will follow in November.

Please plan to join us! We look forward to seeing you there!

Tracie Cross

Galt Joint Union High School District

Transition Partnership Program (TPP)

tcross@ghsd.k12.ca.us

(209) 745-3081 ext. 2004

Español: Christina Soria: csoria@ghsd.k12.ca.us / (209) 745-3081 ext. 2085

If your business is interested in having a booth at this event, please reach out to

Tracie Cross.

SMUD Nonprofit Microloan Program (Ongoing)

SBA Microloans (Ongoing)

EIDL (Deadline 12/31/2021)

All events listed below can also be found on the Galt Chamber website.

Did you know that as a member of the Chamber, you have the opportunity to have your printed materials (including brochures and business cards) displayed on the rack outside of the Chamber office? This is free with your membership. Call us for more information at (209) 745-2529.

Weekly E-Newletters, such as the one you are reading today, can be found on our website.

In addition, if you are a Chamber member and would like to have your job opening(s) posted on our website, please feel free to reach out to us (209) 329-3098 or galtchamber@gmail.com. You can see our current job listings Here (as an overview). To see more information about each open position, click on the company that is hiring.

We will also gladly post our members' events on our Chamber website. You can view a current list of our calendar events Here (as an overview). To see more information about each event, including flyers, click on the event you are interested in. Please contact us if you are interested in adding an event.

Do you have a change to your business, helpful information to share, a promotional discount you would like to offer other members, or a job or event you would like us to add to our next E-Newsletter? If so, please submit your information to us via email at galtchamber@gmail.com by Friday evening to be included in the following week's E-Newsletter. Please remember to attach any photos, brochures, website links, or contact information you would would like to include.

Questions? Call us at (209) 745-2529.

(209) 745-2529

604 N Lincoln Way

Galt CA 95632