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Eligible Uses - Direct Assistance

S Address Negative Economic Impacts
| f Respond to economic harms to workers, families, small businesses,

impacted industries, and the public sector

§ Assistance to small business and non-profits includes, but is not limited to:

* Loans or grants to mitigate financial hardship such as declines in revenues or impacts
of periods of business closure; payroll and benefits costs, costs to retain employees,
mortgage, rent, or utilities costs, and other operating costs.

* Loans, grants, or in-kind assistance to implement COVID-19 prevention or mitigation
tactics, such as physical plant changes to enable social distancing, enhanced cleaning
efforts, barriers or partitions.

* Technical assistance, counseling, or other services to assist with business planning
needs

* Premium pay for essential workers.

§ Aid provided to tourism, travel, and hospitality industries should respond to the negative
economic impacts of the pandemic.

Eligible Uses - Water, Sewer, and Broadband

Infrastructure

+. Water, Sewer, and Broadband Infrastructure
[=> Make necessary investments to improve access to clean drinking water, invest
CD in wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and expand broadband access

Under the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), categories of eligible projects
include: treatment, transmission, and distribution (including lead service line

replacement), source rehabilitation and decontamination, storage, consolidation, and
new systems development.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund
(CWSRF), categories of eligible projects include: construction of publicly owned
treatment works, nonpoint source pollution management, national estuary program
projects, decentralized wastewater treatment systems, stormwater systems, water
conservation, efficiency, and reuse measures, watershed pilot projects, energy efficiency
measures for publicly-owned treatment works, water reuse projects, security measures
at publicly-owned treatment works, and technical assistance to ensure compliance with
the Clean Water Act.

Eligible Uses - Water, Sewer, and Broadband

Infrastructure

+. Water, Sewer, and Broadband Infrastructure
[a Make necessary investments to improve access to clean drinking water, invest
CD in wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and expand broadband access

¢ Eligible projects under the DWSRF and CWSRF support efforts to address climate
change, as well as to meet cybersecurity needs to protect water and sewer

infrastructure. Given the lifelong impacts of lead exposure for children, and the
widespread nature of lead service lines, Treasury also encourages recipients to consider
projects to replace lead service lines.

¢« Costs for construction on eligible water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure projects
must be obligated by Dec. 31, 2024. The period of performance will run until Dec. 31,

2026, which will provide recipients a reasonable amount of time to complete projects
funded with Fiscal Recovery Funds.

Eligible Uses - Water, Sewer, and Broadband

Infrastructure

Water, Sewer, and Broadband Infrastructure

Make necessary investments to improve access to clean drinking
= water, invest in wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and
expand broadband access

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¢« Broadband improvements require eligible projects to reliably deliver minimum speeds of
100 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload. In cases where it is impracticable due to
geography, topography, or financial cost to meet those standards, projects must reliably
deliver at least 100 Mbps download speed, at least 20 Mbps upload speed, and be scalable
to a minimum of 100 Mbps download speed and 100 Mbps upload speed. Projects must
also be designed to serve unserved or underserved households and businesses, defined as
those that are not currently served by a wireline connection that reliably delivers at least

25 Mbps download speed and 3 Mbps of upload speed.

Ineligible Uses -Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

Pension Fund Deposits
Extraordinary contributions to a pension fund for the purpose of reducing an accrued,
unfunded liability are ineligible. Funds can be used for routing payroll contributions for

employee pensions.

Rainy Day Funds or Financial Reserves
Replenishing rainy day or other reserve funds is not considered a government service

and is therefore ineligible.

General Infrastructure
General infrastructure spending above the amount allocated under the revenue loss
provision is not covered as an eligible use except for water, sewer, and broadband

infrastructure.

Debt Service & Legal Settlements

Paying interest or principal on outstanding debt and expenses related to legal
settlements or judgements do not qualify.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

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What do you think?
Your input is valuable & encouraged

Providing Comments
If you have comments to share, please fill out - this form - by October 8" 2021.

Two Virtual Forums

On September 21°t & 23 7-8PM the Office of Economic Development will host a Virtual
Forum to present the proposed ARPA framework, answer questions, and solicit additional
feedback. If interested in attending please email Amy DeRoche at: derochea@nashuanh.gov

In Person Forum

On September 29" 5 PM the Office of Economic Development will host an in-person Forum
to present the proposed ARPA framework, answer questions, and solicit additional feedback.
If interested in attending, please email Amy DeRoche at: derochea@nashuanh.gov

Virtual Business Forums

On September 22"¢ 10 AM the Office of Economic Development will host a Virtual Forum to
present the proposed ARPA framework, answer questions, and solicit additional feedback.
Specifically outreaching and hearing from businesses and their employees. If interested in
attending please email Amy DeRoche at: derochea@nashuanh.gov

Timeline

The goal is to present an updated ARPA framework to the Board of Aldermen at the October
12th meeting and to provide a report to the appropriate subcommittee the ulimtate goal is to
finalize the report and spending by mid-fall.

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Plan A - Future Revenue Replacement

* Look to spend approximately $13.0 million to stabilize the operating budget
¢ This is a rough estimate for illustrative purposes
¢ Try to keep a stable residential tax rate over the coming years

Plan B - Affordable Housing
* Look to put approximately $10.0 million into affordable housing

Plan C - Main Street Reconfiguration

* Look to spend approximately $12.0 million on reconfiguring Main Street (&
side streets)

*Please note this numbers are for illustrative purposes

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