U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Four (4) community health centers in the Federated States of Micronesia will receive $9,023,875 in American Rescue Plan funding to support COVID-19 vaccination and services for vulnerable populations, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today. The funding will be awarded beginning in April by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Health centers will be able to use the funds to support and expand COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and treatment for vulnerable populations; deliver needed preventive and primary health care services to those at higher risk for COVID-19; and expand health centers’ operational capacity during the pandemic and beyond, including modifying and improving physical infrastructure and adding mobile units. This investment will help increase access to vaccinations among hard-hit populations, as well as confidence in the vaccine by empowering local, trusted health profession
$6.33 million in aid to Finger Lakes Community Health
The Chronicle Express
PENN YAN – Finger Lakes Community Health is to receive over $6 million in federal aid to help combat the Coronavirus and adapt their treatment centers to the pandemic.
Late last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced $396,801,375 in emergency federal funding for 63 community health centers (CHCs) across New York State. These funds, provided in the American Rescue Plan, will give New York’s CHCs the support needed to expand COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and treatment for underserved populations.
In Yates County, $6,332,875 in aid will be coming to Finger Lakes Community Health in Penn Yan. Distribution of funding will begin in April. Specifically, this funding will:
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SPRUCING UP ROADSIDE MARKERS: Alan Clarke asks in an email for contact information to report “defaced or otherwise damaged N.M. roadside historic information markers. I’m not sure of their official name, but I’m talking of the big historic markers, usually with the big logs at each side. Some are quite shabby and are not repaired for months or sometimes a year or so. These are deserving of proper attention.”
The contact person is New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Operations Engineer Andrew Gallegos.
Gallegos says, “As part of the State Maintenance Bureau, I have volunteered our services to install new markers along NMDOT roadways which have been approved by the Cultural Properties Review Committee (CPRC) as well as attempting to maintain all the existing markers along NMDOT roadways. It is a difficult task in that there are several hundred markers and they are spread o
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The Ontario County Board of Supervisors met for a regular meeting on April 1, 2021. During the meeting, the Board continued its long-standing process of blocking resolutions into groups for consideration. The Board considered and unanimously approved 39 resolutions without discussion or debate.
The Government Operations and Insurance Committee moved five resolutions to the full Board for consideration.
The first Resolution authorized acceptance of a $91,912.47 grant from the New York State Board of Elections. These grant funds were from the Cybersecurity Remediation Grant Program for program costs running from December 21, 2019, through December 31, 2021.