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Most of Albuquerque’s CARES Act money went to salaries for first responders. Albuquerque Fire Rescue personnel attend to a patient in March at the Alvarado Transportation Center. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New federal legislation has given local governments an extra year to use the COVID-19 relief money they received last spring, but Albuquerque city officials say they actually have nothing left to spend.
City finance officials say the municipal government has spent or otherwise applied all $150 million in CARES Act money it received in April, having focused on trying to meet the original spending deadline of Dec. 30, 2020. Most of it went to personnel and, more specifically, to paying first responders.