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Norfolk County commissioners approve four ARPA excess-allotment applications
Summary
Norfolk County Commissioners unanimously approved four additional excess-allotment applications for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, adding roughly $3.94 million in requested projects to an existing pool of applications that now totals 15 requests and more than $9 million.
The Norfolk County Commissioners voted unanimously on Dec. 31, 2024, to approve for obligation purposes four additional excess-allotment applications for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, authorizing the county to award the requests if previously approved projects return funds to the county.
Director John Cronin told commissioners the four new applications would join 11 already in the excess-allotment pool, bringing the total to 15 requests “and over $9,000,000 in applications that will be available over the next 2 years to receive possible surplus dollars through transfer,” he said.
The approved applications and amounts were: ARPA 1312, town of Bellingham, $324,221.35, for a police and fire-station radio-system upgrade; ARPA 1387, town of Randolph, $3,000,000, to fund a portion of the Tritonnie water treatment plant; ARPA 1390, town of Plainville, $219,644, for a sewer replacement project; and ARPA 1391, town of Plainville, $400,799, for water meter replacements.
Cronin said the applications have completed county review and auditing. He presented a motion to approve the four applications “to be awarded at the discretion of the county commissioners in the event funds from previously approved projects are returned to the County.” The motion was seconded and carried unanimously on a voice vote.
Commissioners and staff noted that, to date, 10 communities have submitted excess-allotment applications; some communities filed more than one request. Cronin described the approvals as a final step in the current phase of excess-allotment administration and said there would be no further applications in this phase.
At the meeting, Cronin also reminded commissioners there would be no meeting on Jan. 1 because of the federal holiday and said staff is preparing a press release and a letter to municipalities summarizing the completion of this phase of ARPA administration. He said the regular commission schedule will resume Jan. 8.
The meeting was held live and remotely; commissioners began with a roll call and noted a March 29, 2023, state act that extends the option for some remote meetings through March 31, 2025, by suspending provisions of the open meeting law (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30A, § 20).
