Itasca County Commissioners Ben Denucci and Terry Snyder, along with Itasca County Health and Human Services (ICHHS) Division Manager Eric Villeneuve were in Bigfork this week to admire a brand new ambulance that the county purchased with Coronavirus Relief Funds provided through the CARES Act.Â
As a whole, Itasca County received $5,640,508 of Coronavirus Relief Funds last year. More than $2 million was distributed to area businesses in the form of Business Grants. According to Villeneuve, the qualifying expenditures that Itasca County spent with the aid had to be necessary, which was defined as incurred due to the public health emergency respective to the Coronavirus Disease and had to be incurred during the period of time of March 1 through Dec. 1, 2020.