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City approves ARPA funding for various nonprot organizations
BY ERIC WEILBACHER
consideration between May and June last year. The nance and audit committee prioritized capital projects and investments happening within the city, Werner said. While $7.15 million was approved for nine total nonprot projects, the city’s total allocation from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program of the ARPA was $10.9 million, and Werner said the city has earmarked the remainder of that funding for potential uses: $500,000 for utility assis- tance, $2.5 million for public transportation and $300,000 for administrative use. The remaining funds are yet to be allocated. “It is not being recommended to utilize a full allocation on this program. You can see that we’ve already earmarked half a million dollars for utility assistance. We’ve earmarked for $2.5 million for public trans- portation,” Werner said. “The idea is that these funds would be available to make any capital investments or operational funding augmentations that were needed to imple- ment those, the top recommendations from that study, so that was the idea. And those two kind of go hand in hand.”
FUNDING NONPROFIT PROJECTS
Nine dierent projects of nonprot organizations were funded by the New Braunfels City Council Feb. 13 in accordance with ARPA guidelines.
NEW BRAUNFELS Several nonprots around New Braunfels will split more than $7 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds. City Council unanimously allocated the funds Feb. 13. The process for these funding consid- erations began in June 2021 and spanned a dozen meetings on how to best use the funding, Assistant City Manager Jared Werner said. “At the very beginning of the nance and audit committees process to evaluate uses, that group really did focus in on this concept of responding to the public health and negative economic impact of the pandemic as one of the four major cost categories that cities and counties were directed to utilize ARPA funds on, specically, really zeroing in on that second bullet point there, which is where the funding can be utilized by households, populations or classes that experience pandemic impacts, including disproportionately impacted communities,” Werner said. Nonprots were able to apply for
Projects Funded Friends of the Christus Santa Rosa Foundation Training Children’s Advocacy Center of Comal County Friends of the Christus Santa Rosa Foundation Outpatient Comal County Habitat for Humanity Connections Individual and Family Services Crisis Center of Comal County San Antonio Food Bank Communities in Schools of South-Central Texas NB Housing Partners
$50,000
$136,626
$140,190
$207,500
$1M
$1M
$1M
$1.5M
$2.13
Total
$7.15M
SOURCE: CITY OF NEW BRAUNFELSCOMMUNITY IMPACT
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