IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION transferring $1,000,000.00 within the 2022 American Rescue Plan Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute Cooperative Agreements with certain outside agencies that serve disadvantaged communities at an aggregate cost to the County not to exceed $1,000,000.00.
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RESOLUTION NO. 20927, April 18, 2022
INTRODUCED BY Tony Miller, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), enacted by the U.S. Congress, provides for payments to local governments navigating the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak from federal coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds; and,
WHEREAS, ARPA requires that these federal funds be used only to cover expenses incurred to respond to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and its negative economic impacts, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, and aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality, to assist workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency by providing premium pay to eligible workers of a state, territory, or tribal/local government who are performing essential work and by providing grants to eligible employers that have eligible workers who perform essential work, and for the provision of government services to the extent of any reduction in revenue of a state, territory, or tribal/local government due to the COVID-19 public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year of the state, territory, or tribal government prior to the emergency; and,
WHEREAS, the County's total allocation of ARPA funds is expected to be $136,551,645.00, the first half of which was received in 2021, and the second half is expected later in 2022; and,
WHEREAS, in view of the restrictions placed on the use of these ARPA funds, by Ordinance 5574, dated Nov...
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