COMMISSION ACTION REQUESTED:
Consider resolution to ratify the Chairman's approval of the grant funding agreement with the State of Georgia in order to receive CARES Act funding, and approval of a budget amendment. The County is eligible for $9,211,622.40. |
FACTS AND ISSUES:
The payments to local governments may be used to cover costs that:
1. are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19);
2. were not accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of March 27, 2020 (the date of enactment of the CARES Act) for the State or government; and
3. were incurred during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 30, 2020.
Per the estimated allocations, it is anticipated that the County will be eligible to receive CARES Act relief funding in the amount of nine million two hundred eleven thousand six hundred twenty-two dollars and forty cents ($9,211,622.40). |