Special Board of Aldermen 08-22-2022 Page 2
Thank you.
Alderwoman Timmons
Mr. Griffin | just want clarification. It was just the lunch program or was it lunch and breakfast programs? You said
lunch.
John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector
I'm sorry. This is the complete food services so it would definitely include any and all food prepared by the District to
distribute whether it's in the morning or during lunch. Thank you.
Alderwoman Timmons
Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
Any other questions? Okay if not, I'll open it up the testimony in favor of R-22-055.
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR- None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION - None
Chairman Dowd closed the public hearing on Resolution R-22-055 at 7:06 p.m.
Chairman Dowd opened the public hearing on Resolution R-22-056 at 7:06 p.m.
R-22-056
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS
ESTABLISHED BY THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT “ARPA” AND FY2022 SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,500,000”
John Griffin, CFO/Treasurer/Tax Collector
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee. John Griffin, CFO/ Treasurer/Tax Collector. If we look at
Resolution R-22-056, this is more or less the financial housekeeping required to get the funds as noted into the areas
where it can be spent. For example or as you know, we brought the monies in several years ago. We put them ina
grant fund. What this does is this gets these monies into the general fund so they can be transferred into the various
capital improvement accounts that you see in the Resolution.
We worked with this company called |Parametrics who are experts in this area of ARPA funding. They recommended
to us, and we endorsed the recommendation, to use revenue replacement as a way of taking in the funds and
spending them on things that we felt were important going forward. What | mean by that is once we go through these
mechanics, we will essentially take the $14.5 million dollar value put that - | selected the Police Departments for lack
of a better choice - we basically put those monies into the Police Department budget for a second and then we
transferred them to these areas that you see on the Resolution. The reason why we can do that is with the revenue of
replacements as authorized by the United States Treasury, we will not have to go through what could be a painstaking
process of using the Treasury portal to track and promote these various expenditures. What will happen is probably in
the next reporting period, the city will be ready to essentially explain to the Treasury via the portal that we spent the
$14.5 million on police salaries, which are an eligible use because they're general governmental services.
So a little bit a little bit tricky but the objective, as we all know from the US Treasury and the administration is to get
these funds out into the public as expeditiously and appropriately as possible. So we feel comfortable with this
particular Resolution. It's a Fiscal 22 supplemental appropriation. So it won't affect, it won't impact Fiscal 23 that
you've already approved that budget. Thank you.
