Community Impact reports that during the October 24th Montgomery County Commissioners’ Court, the County unobligated $2.87 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, funding as a means to use the funding before its expiration in 2024. Unobligated funding can be repurposed.
Montgomery County directed ARPA funding to staffing local hospitals with medical personnel and nurses during the major rise of the COVID-19 epidemic. As of October 24th, the County still has $2.87 million from that funding that was no longer being directed for local hospital use. ARPA funds remaining in Montgomery County coffers total $8.23 million. The funds include, in ARPA unobligated funds, $5.3 million, and in nursing staffing project funds, $2.87 million is left.
Before, however, the funding is frozen from further possible uses, the County has some projects that they will use the funding for. The projects include a new radio tower for Precinct #1 for $5 million and a new mental health investigator for the D-A’s office at $155,850.
