Proclamation #2021-028PPROCLAAA?ION
-Whereas, the City of Clermont, Florida celebrates local small businesses and the
contributions they make to our local economy and community; and
-Whereas, according to the United States Small Business Administration, there are
31.7 million small businesses in the United States, they represent 997% of
firms with paid employees, and they are responsible for 65.1 % of net new
jobs created from 2000 to 2019; and
-Whereas, small businesses employ 47.1% of the employees in the private sector in
the United States, 88% of U.S. consumers feel a personal commitment to
support small businesses in the wake of the pandemic, and 92% of small
business owners have pivoted the way they do business to stay open during
the pandemic; and
-Whereas, 97% of "Small Business Saturday"® shoppers recognize the impact they
can make by shopping small, 85% of them also encouraged friends and
family to do so, too; and
-Whereas, 56% of shoppers reported they shopped online with a small business on
"Small Business Saturday" in 2020, and more than 50% of consumers who
reported shopping small endorsed a local business on social media or
shopped at a local business because of a social media recommendation; and
-Whereas, the City of Clermont supports our local businesses that create jobs, boost
the local economy, and preserve our community;
Now, Therefore, I, Tim Murry, Mayor of the City of Clermont in the State of Florida,
do hereby proclaim the Saturday, November 27, Two Thousand and Twenty One as:
SNALL BUSINESS SA7-Z. RDAY
In -Witness -Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
City of Clermont to be affixed this 9th Day of November in the year Two Thousand and
Twenty One.
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Tracy Ackroyd Howe, MMC
City Clerk
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