Last week at the State College Borough Council meeting, in recognition of the contributions small businesses make to our community and our local economy, Mayor Elizabeth Goreham proclaimed Saturday, November 28, 2015 as Small Business Saturday, urging “residents of our community, and communities across the country, to support small businesses and merchants on Small Business Saturday and throughout the year.”
Representatives from the Downtown State College Improvement District, George Arnold and Sharon Herlocher, were on hand to receive the proclamation on behalf of the over 350 small businesses in Downtown, saying, “We thank you for recognizing the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday in Downtown State College.”
Read the complete text of the Proclamation below.
November 28, 2015
Proclamation
WHEREAS, the government of State College, Pennsylvania celebrates our local small businesses and the contributions they make to our economy and community; and
WHEREAS, according to the United States Small Business Administration, there are currently 27.9 million small businesses in the United States, representing 99.7 percent of American employer firms, creating more than two-thirds of the net new jobs, and generating 46 percent of private gross domestic product, as well as 54 percent of all US sales; and
WHEREAS, small businesses employ over 55 percent of the working population in the United States; and
WHEREAS, an overwhelming majority of consumers in the United States agree that small businesses contribute positively to the local community by supplying jobs and generating tax revenue and that small businesses are critical to the overall economic health of the United States; and
WHEREAS, it is important for people to support the small businesses that they value in their community; and
WHEREAS, State College supports our local businesses that create jobs, boost our local economy and preserve our neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, advocacy groups as well as public and private organizations across the country have endorsed the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mayor Elizabeth Goreham, do hereby proclaim November 28, 2015, as SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY and urge the residents of our community, and communities across the country, to support small businesses and merchants on Small Business Saturday and throughout the year.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed, the great seal of the Borough of State College, this 16th day of November 2015.
Mayor Elizabeth A. Goreham
November 16, 2015
