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Cities are getting a windfall from Biden s COVID relief bill. Now how are they going to spend it? Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Mayors are accustomed to juggling priorities with limited city revenue: Park upgrades or staff pay increases? Street paving or that long-awaited new community center?
The crunch tightened during a global pandemic.
But an infusion of $350 billion in federal COVID-19 rescue funds now headed to local and state governments this week sets up a new – and welcomed – dilemma: how to spend a financial windfall.
Two months after President Joe Biden signed his American Rescue Plan into law, the Treasury Department on Monday made available a historic amount of direct aid to thousands of city and county governments. Local governments are in line to collectively receive more than $110 billion over two years in addition to $125 billion for the reopening of public schools. Another $195.3 billion
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It s been more than a year since Rundill Road at Iroquois Park was closed to vehicles, and three Louisville Metro Council members are ready for a reopening.
In a statement Wednesday night, the three council members – Cindi Fowler (D-14), Amy Holton Stewart (D-25) and Kevin Triplett (D-15) – urged Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and the city s Parks and Recreation department to immediately allow cars back onto the roadway, which loops through the more than 700-acre park in south Louisville.
Rundill Road closed to vehicles in early April 2020, after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, as part of an effort to maintain safety for the uptick in pedestrians who visited the park as other entertainment options around the city were forced to close. City officials have since said they re considering keeping the closure permanent, with an online survey and multiple virtual public meetings to gather feedback from the community.
(The Center Square) – Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has found the person to lead the team that will help determine how the city spends the federal stimulus funds it’ll receive