The inaugural event, according to organizers, who hope to hold it annually, was the community uniting to celebrate and highlight the unique aspects of past, present and future Black excellence.
About 40 people gathered Tuesday to learn more and to let their ideas be known about how roughly $24 million in American Rescue Plan funds coming to the City of Gadsden should be used.
City Planning Director Nick Hall talked about what the money can t be used for paying debt service, legal settlements or judgments, or deposits to pension funds or to rainy day funds or financial reserves, for example and about the ways it can be used.
The eligible uses, by statute are:
To respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency or its negative economic impacts;
To respond to workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency by providing premium pay to those workers;