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Jerry Merrill REXBU RG
Mayor America's Family Community
mayor@ rexburg.org
PROCLAMATION
No. 2024-06
Small Business Saturday November 30, 2024
Whereas, the government of Rexburg, Idaho, celebrates our local small businesses and the
contributions they make to our local economy and community; and
Whereas, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, there are 34.7 million small
businesses in the United States: small businesses represent 99.7% of firms with paid
employees, small businesses are responsible for 61.1 % of net new jobs created since 1995,
and small businesses employ 45.9% of the employees in the private sector in the United States;
and
Whereas, 68 cents of every dollar spent at a small business in the United States stays in the
local community and every dollar spent at small businesses creates an additional 48 cents in
local business activity as a result of employees and local businesses purchasing local goods
and services; and
Whereas, 59% of U.S. consumers aware of Small Business Saturday shopped or ate at a small,
independently owned retailer or restaurant on Small Business Saturday 2023; and
Whereas, Rexburg, Idaho, supports our local businesses that create jobs, boost our local
economy, and preserve our communities; 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, Jerry Merrill, Mayor of Rexburg, Idaho do hereby proclaim, November 30,
2024, 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 to Shop Small throughout the year.
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ATTEST.
Deborah Lovejoy
REXBURG CITY CLERK
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Seal of the City of Rexburg
to be affixed this 21yh day of November of the
year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four.
APPROVED:
Jerry ' errill
MAYOR