Eagle Mountain Businesses And COVID-19 – 20% Surveyed Closed Doors
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Recently Eagle Mountain City did a survey of the Local Businesses in Eagle Mountain. The survey was responded to by a little over 200 business owners. cedarvalleysentinel.com has done a GRAMA request for the raw data of that survey. The city has provided it and the details are listed below.
The request from the City stated: “Eagle Mountain City is seeking input from EM businesses to determine if there are additional ways the City and/or the Chamber of Commerce can support local businesses. Please complete the survey as soon as possible.” The survey has been closed to respondents. The data collected is available below, with the exception of some data. When responding to the GRAMA request the city responded with the following caveat, “any information that could reveal the identity of the respondents has been redacted, as there were key questions that related to financial information. Also, there are a few rows that are blank; those were not redacted; I believe those responses may not have been fully submitted by respondents, but the survey software still generated a response.”
Survey Details
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Type of Business: 117 businesses responded to the question about what type of business they are, 93 businesses identified as “Home-based Business”, and the remaining 24 identified as “Brick and mortar business”
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Employees: 61.9% of those who responded to the survey are self employeed, followed by 20.3% with 2-5 employees.
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Source of Income: Of the 61.9% that are self employeed, 37.3% identified their business as their primary source of income.
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Industry: The survey results show that Eagle Mountain has a very diverse business types. There are a lot of different industries that are represented by businesses in Eagle Mountain.
The respondents that selected other entered the following Business Industries. (Note: No editing has been done on these entries)
Accounting
Art lessons
ATM Maintenance
Beauty
Broker Aerospace Metals & Manufactured Parts
Carpet cleaning services.
Children’s dress-ups and costumes
Coaching and mentoring
Computer/VR
custom made items
Custom Sewing and Alterations
Dance, tumbling, & aerobics
Dog training pet grooming
Engineering Design Services
Entertainment
Entertainment- Boardgames
Freelance Art
Glasses and contacts
Gunsmith
Hair Salon
Handyman
HOA Management, accounting
Home Appliance Repair
Home Decor
Hunting and shooting
Janitorial
Kennel
Lawn & Garden equipment repair
Nursery garden center
Online News Outlet
Pet grooming
Pet services
Photography
Piano lessons
Real Estate Home Inspections
Rental
Retired
Sales
Sales Agency- Medical Device Manufacturing
Salon
Shipping
Sports/Recreational
Trucking
We operate a farm and sell produce and other farm products to the public, we operate all year, but mostly sell at farmers markets
Web based design printables
Woodshop
Yard care and House Cleaning
The following questions were based asked to get a feel for how COVID-19 was effecting the businesses in Eagle Mountain.
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COVID-19 Closures: This is probably the most striking statistic from the survey. It shows that 20% of business owners closed their doors either permanently or temporarily due to COVID-19 restrictions. Some of them just said they could not do business with the restrictions.
The 20% of business owners that said they were still not in business gave the following reasons.(Note: No editing has been done on these entries)
Because I wasn’t making much profit. I closed at the beginning of the year.
Because I work with the most fragile. Newborns. It is my civic duty to keep social distancing. It does hurt though.
Can’t do in person classes
covid 19 temporarily
COVID-19
Covid19 and direct contact with individuals and skin is discouraged. I feel that it is not safe at this time.
Fear of bringing covid home to my family of 7.
I didn’t want to risk people trying on dresses that someone else tried on. Plus, I didn’t want to risk the virus coming into my home.
I teach art students and am not allowed to have class at this time
Im loosing more money by staying open than staying closed.
Mandated by the state that i have to carona virus
Need to reevaluate hours of operation to not be overwhelmed.
No one would book, shaming on internet for those open or who book skin care services. People are afraid.
Not allowed to hold classes
People can’t come for fittings
Risk of getting sick and infecting hundres of people
Social distancing
Social distancing
Social distancing, due to COVID-19, is not possible in a preschool setting.
To obey the social distancing measures
Was encouraged to shut down till May. Don’t feel safe working that close with people.
we work so close to our clients it would be hard to stay 6ft apart. We wanted to be safe
With the COVID-19 we don’t want others coming into our home to rent dresses. At the time also deep cleaning all the dresses to make sure once things return back to normal ready to rent out again.
COVID-19 Closures cont.:Of those that closed their doors, 13% of them answered they were Brick and mortar business, the remaining 19 businesses that closed were Home-based businesses. Those brick and mortar businesses employed between 22 and 39 employees.
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COVID-19 Response: 102 businesses answered this question 26 of those businesses selected more than on choice. 24.4% of respondents noted that they either had to Furlough or Layoff Staff in response to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Revenue Impact: A positive note is that 27% responded that they did not have a revenue decrease, but either remained the same or had an increase in revenue.
The final question was What else would you like to see the City do to assist during this time? This was a free form field, so I have not modified the entries, but they are included here.
The city has been helpful providing information
Not sure – anything would be fabulous
Let people go camping so we can fix their RVs 🙂
I don’t know
We’re doing the best we can. There is not much input I have
I think my business is okay at the moment, but as time goes on I will see more decline
Spotlight a company each day
Local business features with colorful pictures and information on the fb page.
I think this survey was really great! More of this info to small businesses!
Any ideas could help businesses
Promoting local businesses
Just keep information flowing
Find somewhere for me to build an automotive shop in eagle mt! Lol
Keep supporting people
Your guys are great thanks for your support
The city is doing a great job
None at this time.
financial assistance
Support local business
I don’t know of anything I would suggest right now.
Promote and help market small businesses OTHER than food establishments. (Those are great, but we are ALL struggling and all you hear about is to support the restaurants). Maybe have a place stating what business are still open, what they offer, what changes they have made etc. so people know?
Help by offering deferred City utility billing
Nothing at the moment
Nothing
Maybe reduce business license costs for renewals?
I can not operate during this time.
I am not sure at this time
Eagle Mountain city is awesome!
I am willing to help the city workers with any aches or pains using Bowenwork when we are allowed to open again. Promo code [CODE REMOVED]. Thank you for being willing to serve local businesses and the fine citizens of our community. Stay safe and healthy!
The above are great!
Would participate in a flyer or something to residents with specials
Promoting local business in the community
I plan to apply for the allowance to board 4 more dogs a night when boarding picks back up to help with the huge decrease in income.
I need no help with my business.
I love Eagle Mountain City. You guys are the best. Thank you
not sure
I believe this storm will be passing in just a few weeks. I’m in real estate and I’m beginning to notice a uptick in activity in the market. I feel on the real estate side of things that we’ll be back to mostly normal by June.
small business shopping
Be more involved in helping small business in eagle mountain.
most of our business is not in the city limits, so it doesn’t help us
Open communication
Loans for payroll
Online site showing all local business corona discounts.
Open the city offices back up.
Not sure there is much they can do.
Get everyone back to work
Ensure that utilities ie internet and power have little to no interruption
Allow the Farmers Market to resume in June
I simply need people to be aware of my website and visit it.
Im good
I would like to know what summer teachers will be able to do
Maybe a push to the residents about keeping dollars as local as possible
I don’t knoe
I don’t know yet
positive things that are going on in the city–neighbors helping, new ways to “gather”, recognizing senior class,
Get Comcast or Centurylink internet services asap, before Direct Comm ruin more businesses or price gouge the public during these troubled times
I am not sure since my business mostly relies on social media and shopping events.
Unsure. Financial assistance?
Nothing at this time
I dont think any of the above would benefit us but we appreciate all the city is doing to try and help.
EM citzens need to aware of all businesses that are still open
Stay home stay safe
I think the city is responding perfectly
In person event that we can all easily social distance at!
Not sure since I can’t work.
Continue to gather up business information and possibly spotlight or market for these business as they return to operations
no
Library
I am not a small business owner, thank you though
Nothing at this time
Not sure
All the listed options sound great! Perhaps also update the business directories to include up to date information.
Unsure
Work out a way to do farmers market and or online Farmers market for pick up only
Keep pushing info and resources out to everyone
None
Keep up the good work
Use their social media platforms to highlight businesses in the city
Information on how to fill out assistance applications
Find ways to keep the community engaged in various activities. Help residents to take pride in our wonderful community which will help with hope and quality of life.
Conclusion: COVID-19 has had a serious impact on some of the small businesses in Eagle Mountain. I strongly encourage everyone to help support local businesses by visiting the Eagle Mountain Virtual Main Street, or the Eagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce and patronize local business.
EDITORS NOTE: I do not believe this data is 100% reliable. There were a lot of empty rows, as well as some data missing. The data that I entred for cedarvalleysentinel.com was not included, so I know that there were some of the data lines removed as part of the GRAMA request. It would be interesting to know what criteria the City Staff uses when they determine what is considered private information that is purged during a GRAMA request.
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