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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 4/7/2025 Item No.: 10.i. Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Accept and approve the final spending plan of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) federal dollars 1 2 Background 3 Congress adopted the American Rescue Plan Act in March 2021 (“ARPA”) which included 4$65 billion in recovery funds for cities across the country. The US Treasury provided 5 guidelines for each city to follow while thinking about ways to use the funds. 6 7 The City Council approved application and acceptance of the ARPA funds on June 21, 8 2021. The City received its distribution of ARPA funds in 2021 and 2022 for a total award 9 of $3,984,102.54. 10 11 The ARPA funds were available for appropriation through December 31, 2024, with final 12 expenditures by December 31, 2026. The Council approved some uses of these funds in 13 the 2022 budget and through certain union contract approvals. On January 24, 2022, the 14 Council approved taking the Standard Allowance for Revenue Loss and approved a 15 proposed spending plan for the ARPA funds. 16 17 The Final Rule issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury had the general categories 18 of eligible use of these ARPA funds as follows: 19 1. Replacement of lost public sector revenues 20 2. Responding to the Public Health Emergency/Negative Economic Impacts 21 3. Infrastructure investments – water, sewer and broadband projects 22 4. Premium Pay for essential workers. 23 24 Over the course of the past three years, some of the items that were originally in the 25 spending plan were modified as costs came in higher or lower than originally planned. In 26 addition, certain items were determined to not be necessary. The following chart shows the 27 final spending plan and also shows the preliminary plan for comparison. The preliminary 28 plan did not allocate all funding as flexibility was necessary to cover the three years of 29 spending. 30 Page 1 of 3 Qbhf!227!pg!231