In this eNewsletter, you will find information about key efforts that impact our business community, including:
- California's Revenue Surplus of $55 Billion
- Meet the Business Law Enforcement Liaison
- Go Green on Butterfield
- Hotel Incentive Policy
- Spanish Language Translation
- Connecting Businesses to Bikes
- Public Works Week
-Benjamin Moore, Mission Bell, and Urbn Ranch
- Business Resources
Read the May 2022 eNewsletter HERE and reach out to the team if you have any questions or want to connect with us. Thank you for continuing to “Choose Morgan Hill.”
Have questions? Contact City of Morgan Hill Economic Development Director Matt Mahood at Matt.Mahood@morganhill.ca.gov
On May 9th, the federal government announced that they secured commitments from 20 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer at least one high speed internet plan with a minimum of 100 MB download for no more than $30 a month, with the guarantee of no additional fees or data caps, to an estimated 48 million households who qualify for it across the country. This is known as the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).
ACP was established through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021. It allocated $14.2 billion to the program to extend the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (EBB) that was established through a federal COVID relief package, and amended the program in several ways including adding additional consumer protections, reducing the monthly subsidy amount from $50 to $30, and extending eligibility requirements such that ISPs are required to open all their plans to ACP. This new commitment ensures that ACP-eligible households, with access to the committed ISPs, will be able to have internet in their homes with no out of pocket costs.
The federal government also announced support for streamlined and simplified ACP enrollment including:
-The launch of a new, streamlined website to enroll in ACP
-A campaign to reach ACP-eligible households through coordinated messaging and outreach through the federal programs they’re already enrolled in (like Social Security)
-Partnerships with state and city governments to conduct outreach
-Collaborations with public interest organizations who provide enrollment support
To learn more about the Affordable Connectivity Program go HERE
Mission Bell Manufacturing was founded in Santa Clara County in 1959. After briefly operating under the parent company USA Millwork, Mission Bell has once again resumed operations as a local, employee-owned business, dedicated to premium quality architectural millwork and casework.
Mission Bell is a 60-year-old millwork manufacturing company based in Morgan Hill. They provide custom commercial millwork and casework for healthcare, technology, education, office, and hospitality projects throughout the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest regions.
In this eNewsletter, you will find information about key efforts that impact our business community, including:
· 4th Quarter Sales Tax Data
· Edes Fine Art Gallery
· Morgan Hill Outdoor Dining Program
· Updated Development Opportunities Map with Housing
· Broadband Improvements
· Meet Our New Teammate: Un-Housed Specialist Brian Malicdem
· Toray, Anritsu and Lin Engineering
· Business Resources
Read the April 2022 eNewsletter HERE and reach out to the team if you have any questions or want to connect with us. Thank you for continuing to “Choose Morgan Hill.”
Anritsu is one of the top five largest employers within the City of Morgan Hill and is actively hiring for a variety of positions! Anritsu is a Japanese based company that was started in 1895. The company acquired Wiltron in 1990 and made Morgan Hill the Anritsu Americas Headquarters in 2000. They employ approximately 4,000 people companywide, more than 400 of which are employed at their Morgan Hill location. Anritsu’s flagship testing & measuring instrument business provides products and services indispensable to the development, manufacture, and maintenance of a range of communication systems. In addition, Anritsu technologies have been incorporated into a range of products in other fields, such as IP network equipment and inspection equipment for food and pharmaceutical products. Some of the machining, testing and products at the Morgan Hill facility cannot be found anywhere else in the world . Preserving the environment is an important part of their company culture and is demonstrated in their multimillion-dollar parking lot solar panel and EV charging project. They have also recently altered operations to significantly decrease water discharge and increase water recycling.
In 1972 Scott Unger’s first composite company was renamed TenCate Advanced Composites and in 2000 they opened their manufacturing facility in Morgan Hill. In 2018 the company was acquired by Toray Industries Inc. Today, Toray Advanced Composites is a leading supplier to the aerospace industry, providing advanced thermoset and thermoplastic composite materials to produce lightweight structures for the latest generation of commercial, general aviation, military and unmanned aircraft. They are the leading global supplier of thermoset prepregs for out-of-autoclave (OOA)/vacuum-bag-only (VBO) applications and their Toray Cetex® brand is a leader in thermoplastic prepregs for the aerostructures market. Additionally, as the leading supplier of composite materials to the satellite, space exploration and launch industries, Toray’s CCS Group provides the industry with exceptionally durable and light weight carbon fiber compression molded parts. CCS focuses on replacing aluminum and titanium with a lighter weight, more cost-effective solution for improved efficiency and performance. Toray Advanced Composites has a secondary location in Fairfield that specializes mainly in thermoset products for satellites. We are thrilled to share that the company is expanding and actively looking to do so in Morgan Hill.
