Number
200273
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution relating to acceptance and expenditure of a State of Wisconsin Department of Administration Routes to Recovery Local Government Grant.
Analysis
This substitute resolution authorizes the Department of Administration to accept funding from the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration for the Routes to Recovery Local Government Grant in the amount of $9.6 million.
Body
Whereas, the State of Wisconsin established the Routes to Recovery Local Government Aid Grant program (RTR), funded by $200 million in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act dollars; and
Whereas, the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration is administering the Routes to Recovery Local Government Aid Grant Program and has assigned the grant funds to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 21.019; and
Whereas, City of Milwaukee is allocated $9,600,841 through the Routes to Recovery Grant program; and
Whereas, the Routes to Recovery Grant can be used for unbudgeted expenditures incurred between March 1 and November 6, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and
Whereas, the Routes to Recovery Grant can reimburse City costs in the areas of emergency operations, personal protective equipment, cleaning and sanitizing supplies and services, temporary isolation housing, testing and contact tracing costs, FMLA and sick leave for public health and safety employees; and
Whereas, to ensure the effective use of the Routes to Recovery Grant, the Department of Administration will coordinate with the Milwaukee Health Department and other city departments to identify unbudgeted City expenditures necessary to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, including in the areas of testing, contact tracing, isolation housing for infected or at-risk individuals, medical equipment, protective services and equipment; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common C...
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