IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $70.4 million from the undesignated fund balance of the 2024 American Rescue Plan Fund.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5895, October 28, 2024
INTRODUCED BY DaRon McGee, Sean E. Smith, Manuel Abarca IV, Donna Peyton and Venessa Huskey, County Legislators
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WHEREAS, by Resolution 21769, dated October 14, 2024, the County Legislature implemented the method for the distribution of approximately $70.4 million in remaining Jackson County American Rescue Plan funds by the end of 2024; and
WHEREAS, ARPA requires that these federal funds may be used only to cover expenses to respond to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or its negative impacts, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel and hospitality; to respond to workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency providing premium pay to eligible workers of the State, territory, or Tribal/local government that are performing such essential work, or by providing grants to eligible employers that have eligible workers who perform essential work; for the provision of government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue of such State, territory, or Tribal/local government due to COVID-19 public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year of the State, territory, or Tribal/local government prior to the emergency; and to make necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure; and incurred during the period from March 3, 2021 through December 31, 2026; and,
WHEREAS, ARPA funds must be obligated by December 31, 2024 and spent by December 31, 2026; and,
WHEREAS, an appropriation is necessary in order to place the funds in the proper spending account; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson Cou...
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