Drafter
Clerk 07/21/2022
Title
A MOTION requesting the executive to establish methods to receive complaints related to the fraud, waste, abuse or mismanagement of federal funding relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Body
WHEREAS, on March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("the CARES Act"), a $2.2 trillion federal stimulus package, became law. The CARES Act provided relief to state and local governments through a variety of federal agencies and programs such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief funding and the Treasury Department's Coronavirus Relief Fund ("CRF"), which provided a direct allocation to the county of $263 million. The county has used the CRF for necessary expenditures incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including expenses preparing for, responding to, mitigating impact of and preventing COVID-19, and
WHEREAS, on December 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act ("CRRSAA") within the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act ("CAA"), which provided an additional $900 billion in federal stimulus, became law. CRRSAA funding programs included the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Emergency Rental Assistance Program, where not less than ninety percent of awarded moneys must be used for direct financial assistance, including rent, rental arrears, utilities and home energy costs arrears, and other expenses related to housing, and remaining moneys are available for housing stability services, including case management and other services intended to keep households stably housed, and administrative costs, and
WHEREAS, on March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("ARPA"), a $1.9 trillion federal relief package, became law. ARPA provided relief to state and local governments through a variety of federal agencies and programs such as the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund ("CLFRF"), which provided a direct allocation to the county of $437 million to ...

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