Wong asks about proactive outreach to small businesses
Wong raises concerns that putting information on a website is insufficient for people who don't check websites and asks whether DOF will proactively reach out to small businesses with outstanding ECB judgments. Lee says DOF will use all forms of outreach to connect with eligible respondents.
Council Member Wong.
Yes.
My last issue is outreach because putting this in a website, you know, is not enough, especially for people that don't check on websites.
They just automatically, you know, they get automatically deducted from their bank accounts and just get an email.
So my question to you is, will Department of Finance, if this program
gets approved, voted on, will Department of Finance proactively reach out to small businesses with these outstanding ECB judgments that may benefit from the program?
If we have the means to connect.
With the existing pool of ECB violation individuals, we're more than happy to do that in one form or another.
Yes, because as I see it now, they will never know about it.
They might not know about it, you're right.
Yes.
So we will, again, we're going to utilize all forms of outreach in order to get respondents to participate.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.