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The county will receive about $159 million total from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). This is definitely a people s plan, said Commission President Stephanie Summerow Dumas. [We re] trying to bring people where they can feel like they have a future, and there s some hope.
The spending plan is broadly split into two categories: one with immediate-need programs to be deployed this summer, and one with long-term projects that require more planning. People are still struggling, said Commissioner Denise Driehaus. How do we provide mortgage assistance, rent assistance, small business assistance, non-profit assistance, to those who are still struggling out there, and also reserve enough of these dollars to make sure we can do some transformational things?
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We re not Santa Claus : Everyone wants a piece of Cincinnati s $292M COVID relief fund
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CINCINNATI â After weeks of speculation and sweeping proposals from city leaders on how to spend hundreds of millions in anticipated federal COVID-19 relief funding, residents had their first chance to weigh in Monday afternoon.
One thing quickly became clear: Everybody wants of piece of this $292-million pie.
Roughly 80 people signed up to speak via video conference call during Monday afternoon s hearing of City Council s Budget and Finance Committee. Most were with big-name organizations like the Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Flying Pig Marathon and others.