Sun may again rise on Seneca business help program

Seneca set the sun recently on a city program to financially assist commercial business projects.  There’s sentiment to reconsider, as the result of the city’s Improvements Corporation being told that as many as four new businesses missed a deadline to apply.  Some of that failure, said Scott Moulder, can be traced to confusion as to when the business should have made application.  Mayor Dan Alexander said he’s convinced that the program has helped create re-vitalization downtown and, if it’s affordable, he’d like to see a return of the CBIP—the commercial building improvement program.  A likely source for the monies is the city’s stored electricity peak shaving account, which is thought to contain “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, according to a statement made by Josh Riches, the city’s financial director.