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To: City of Winston Salem
COVID19- Emergency Rent and Debt Forgiveness
We believe that an immediate moratorium on collection rent and mortgage for the month of April and forgiveness of interest, late fees, or the owing of that month's rent in the future should be implemented. This moratorium and forgiveness should continue as long as the critical and necessary social distancing continues.
Why is this important?
On March 17, 2020 Gov. Roy Cooper announced an executive order to all restaurants and bars to close for dine-in customer. As a restaurant / bar workers of Winston Salem have been financially crippled by the critical and necessary measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Though the federal or state government may eventually provide relief, the immediate conservation of our limited financial resources is necessary for our own and our family's health and wellbeing. Rentors, Leasors, Banks and other relevant institutions can, as a class seek their own relied; the sate and federal government is much more responsive and historically more likely to act on their behalf. We must protect our limited cash flow immediately.