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Local Governments To Share In Millions From American Rescue Plan
March 13, 2021
Local governments in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties will receive funds from the American Rescue Plan.
The money will be distributed as follows:
- Escambia County — $61.7 million
- Pensacola — $19.1 million
- Century — $780,000
- Santa Rosa County — $35.7 million
- Milton — $4.4 millon
- Gulf Breeze — $2.9 million
- Jay $270,000
According to the the bill, the funds can be used:
- to respond to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) or its negative economic impacts, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality;
- to respond to workers performing essential work during the COVID–19 public health emergency by providing premium pay to eligible workers of the State, territory, or Tribal government that are performing such essential work, or by providing grants to eligible employers that have eligible workers who perform essential work;
- for the provision of government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue of such State, territory, or Tribal government due to the COVID–19 public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year of the State, territory, or Tribal government prior to the emergency; or
- to make necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure.
Each local government will receive half of the funds this year and the other half within a year of their first payment. The deadline to spend the money won’t be until 2024.
President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law Thursday, providing $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 stimulus money.
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17 Responses to “Local Governments To Share In Millions From American Rescue Plan”
People wondering where this money will come from, how will it be repaid?
Educate your selves on the Federal Reserve Act of Dec 1913 and Revenue Act of 1913.
At the end of the day, it is only paper money; printed on a press.
Safebear
More like the fox in the hen house.
Your half truth is as good as a full septic tank
@Stumpknocker
Yet the the previous bailout (the CARES Act), under the Donald Trump administration was even larger ($2.2T) and did similarly with the funds: only 15% of the money went to individuals as cash payments (another very small fraction)! The largest percentage of the money went to businesses. Both of the rescue plans were designed in response to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s just that one was passed under the Trump administration and the latter was passed under the Biden administration. Political finger pointing ensues: “ours was better, yours is bad”.
As a former employee of escambia county, I can assure you this money has already been earmarked, spent, wasted and covered up before IT EVER GOT HERE. If you don’t believe me, simply ask for proof of where this money is ” spent” verses where already existing ” money” was spent. Just sayin’.
You can bet, that Escambia county
will blow ALL there money on usless
project as they had done in the pass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only 9% of the money will go to covid reimbursement…. Remember, the government has no money, and can only spend what it can borrow or confiscate from taxpayers!!! The bill will be paid by future generations, but we will have to endure higher interest rates and inflation! God help us all! And I don’t remember one Democrat returning their checks from Trump!
@Safebear how bout stop misleading people, republicans never said they didn’t want Americans to have this money, what they did criticize was all the money going to other countries. The citizens only received a very very small fraction of these funds. Democrats attached bills to this plan that had absolutely nothing to do with relieve for the American people. Billions of these tax dollars are going to Democratic run cities who stood by and watched them burn and destroyed, why should we pay for that? Or how these Democratic run cities have allowed their retirement programs to get out of control, again how did Covid 19 cause this? All this reminds me of the Obama ball out, only this time a bone was given. And yes I received my stimulus and it was donated to a much worthy cause,
My grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying off this debt.
Like your own checkbook, you can’t spend more than you make, not unless you use credit. Then you have to have a plan to pay it back. The Government should work the same way, but it owes more without any responsibility on how to pay for the trillions. You can see gas and food prices have gone up. Taxes will have to go up to pay for what the Government has done. We are happy for the little amount of money given, but we will pay for it in the long run.
@Jack
Why would any politician want to destroy the US? To lose elections? To spark a revolution? Take off the tin foil had and come back to reality, brother.
The American Rescue Plan should be renamed The American Destruction Plan. Where does the govt get this money to give away? All part of the grand scheme to further cripple the USA and future generations with debt, require higher taxes (because the govt knows better how to spend your money for you), and to ultimately make everyone totally dependent on power hungry politicians.
The so called “woke culture” needs to wake up to reality.
Let the giveaways continue. $500 per household.
Remember that not a single republican senator or representative wanted you to have this money.
they are so against Biden – SEND IT BACK!!! do not help floridians AND the local governments need to be WATCHED carefully that it goes WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO GO
Stating $1.9 trillion in stimulus money is grossly misleading. Most of the bill, although bundled together under this stimulus umbrella, has nothing to do with American rescue or stimulus.
let’s see what happens to that money in century. i’m guessing we’re broke again in a week and nobody will know what happened to the money.
Let’s see how our local government treats the first responders who have been out there every day during this pandemic, I’m willing to bet not one will step forward.