The county executive’s latest move has been to demand the return of unused ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds from ECGRA and Diverse Erie for the recent blizzard. Instead, on December 19th, ECGRA approved a $500,000 grant to the county to cover the snow clean-up–more than the amount of unspent ARPA money, acting in theContinue reading “Santa’s List”
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Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Highlighting another part of this mess of a budget…Apparently the county executive never heard the old saying, “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.” ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds are a gift from the federal government that will need to be returned if they aren’t allocated by the end of the year. TheContinue reading “Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth”
Priorities
One of the “highlights” of the county executive on his countywide budget tour is how the allocation of ARPA funds are helping the municipalities of Erie county fund infrastructure projects that they otherwise couldn’t fund. Although there are other allocations of ARPA money, let’s compare the municipal funds with what was given to Gannon UniversityContinue reading “Priorities”
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