Lifting of public health orders should boost Indians crowds, nudge Ohio closer to normal
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Life should look a bit different in Ohio starting today.
You may stop in for breakfast at your favorite restaurant and find all the chairs and tables back to the way they used to be more than a year ago. You might be worshipping a little closer to your fellow parishioners. And the stands should be fuller at your favorite sporting event.
Simply put, we won’t have to be treating others as if they had, well . . . a communicable disease.
That’s because many of Gov. Mike DeWine’s health orders to combat the coronavirus were rescinded as of June 2, including those pertaining to masks and social distancing, although they will remain in place for nursing homes and assisted-living facilities.
CLEVELAND, Ohio As Ohio communities closed city halls during the pandemic and city councils began meeting online, an interesting thing happened. Viewership of those meetings during livestreams or when residents would watch archived meetings at their leisure often was far higher than attendance ever was for in-person meetings. The Ohio General Assembly’s special permission for local .
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority says money available for unfunded capital projects
RTA announces positive financial outlook for remainder of year.
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Federal dollars have been very helpful to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
Federal dollars allocated to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) in response to COVID-19 made up for a loss of $20 million dollars in operating expenses in 2020, said Rajan Gautam, Secretary Treasurer/Deputy General Manager of Finance, [this week] at a meeting of the RTA Board of Trustees.
During his report as Secretary/Treasurer to the Board, Gautam also said the loss in 2021 would have been an additional $50.2 million and the projected loss in 2022 would have been $46.8 million.
RTA losses offset by federal stimulus funds
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The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will have year-end surpluses rather than deficits for 2020 through 2022 as a result of a total of $315 million in federal stimulus funding.
The COVID-19 pandemic gutted ridership levels and created revenue shortfalls totaling $20 million for 2020 before RTA received approximately $112 million of CARES Act funds last year, said Rajan Gautam, RTA general manager of finance at a Tuesday, May 25, board of trustee meeting. The ending balance in RTA s general fund for 2020 was $133.6 million.
During Gautam s report to the board, he said that without federal aid there would have been a $50.2 million loss in 2021 and $46.8 million projected loss in 2022. Instead, according to Gautam, RTA will have projected ending balances of $158.8 million in 2021 and $180 million in 2022.