The Baltimore City Council kicked off a week of budget hearings Tuesday with inquiries about the city’s $641 million American Rescue Plan. Among the questions: whether any of the city’s backlogged or stalled services will be restored by the funds, and how the remaining $160 million will be spent.
Baltimore’s rollout of American Rescue Plan funds has put City Council members on the hot seat with numerous local nonprofit organizations, members of the board bemoaned Tuesday during a quarterly update on the money.
The U.S. Treasury made "advancing racial equity" a "central tenet" in its decision-making on the spending of $350 billion in state and local aid from President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
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Baltimore officials are reevaluating proposals from nonprofits and city agencies to receive some of the city’s $641 million in American Rescue Plan money, city officials said Tuesday as members of City Council continued to press for more details on how the money has been allocated thus far.