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Trumbull County commissioners address public questions over ARPA spending, urge clearer online access
Summary
County officials reviewed the record of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) expenditures and web postings after public reports questioned transparency; auditors and staff said records exist but some pages are not mobile-friendly and offered to provide more accessible exports and follow-up detail.
Trumbull County commissioners and county staff spent a substantial portion of their meeting addressing public concerns about how the county spent ARPA money and how those expenditures are presented online.
County Auditor Martha Yoder and planning staff told commissioners that project approvals, MOUs and a color‑coded spreadsheet tracking ARPA awards already exist on the county website but that some users were unable to view the full file on phones. "When you actually go to the website from a PC or a computer can you bring it up for us?" a commissioner said; Yoder said, "But I think 90% of the world's looking at phones right now," and agreed to ask IT to make the material easier…
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