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COVID relief padded abilities of Community Warmth
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A program to help Hatters pay off overdue utility bills grew three-fold during 2020 – when council dedicated emergency funds to it in a COVID relief package – and more is expected this spring, administrators tell the News.
They are also giving an accounting of other relief funds – $8.2 million in reserve cash that was spent on other charitable efforts, business grants and potential economic development spending.
Half of that money went to erase proposed property tax increases last year, but portions of $4 million are being paid out and other unspent amounts rolled into a new economic development program.