John Orona | Staff Writer
Last year, the state set aside more than $1 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds for local jurisdictions that were not directly funded through the CARES Act recovery bill.
Now, the latest reports on how those funds were spent are becoming available.
Nevada County was allocated just over $10 million, more than $4 million of which was spent on staffing for public health and safety employees.
Across the state, costs for staffing additional public health and safety employees accounted for nearly 18% of all expenditures, making it on average the second highest cost driver after facilitating distance learning, which accounted for more than 21% of costs statewide.