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City staff reports on ARPA spending: majority used on street projects and broad departmental needs
Summary
Accounting manager Jordan Munger presented a summary of the city's use of $1.9 million in SLFRF/ARPA funds received in 2021 and 2022, reporting about $1.2 million spent on street projects and remaining funds obligated for an electrical project; the report was informational.
Accounting manager Jordan Munger presented an informational report on the city’s use of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF), commonly known as ARPA funds, received in 2021 and 2022.
Munger said the city received $1,900,000 in ARPA funds and reported spending roughly $800,000 in 2022, $200,000 in 2023, and about $900,000 in 2024, with a small amount remaining that is obligated for an electrical project as of Dec. 31, 2024. “So in 'twenty 1 and 2022, we received $1,900,000 worth of funding,” Munger said. “We spent about $800,000 in 2022. And in 2023, '2 hundred thousand. 20 '20 '4, '9 hundred thousand.”
Munger said roughly $1.2 million of the ARPA spending went to street projects (spread across four projects), with funds also distributed across general government (revaluation, voting machines, IT and communications), public safety (fire department boilers, ambulance partial payment), culture and recreation (library computers, audio/video, community-center boiler), and fairgrounds electrical upgrades. He described the allocations as supplementary funding for large projects rather than full project costs. The presentation was for information only and generated brief committee appreciation for staff coordination.
