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Richmond analysis flags $294.4 million in federal assistance and $116.5 million at risk if federal freeze proceeds
Summary
City staff presented a department-by-department inventory showing $294.4 million in active or anticipated federal financial assistance; officials identified social services, housing and public utilities as the programs at greatest risk if an Office of Management and Budget freeze moves forward.
Maggie Anderson, Richmond’s director of intergovernmental affairs, told the Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee on March 1 that city departments reported $294,400,000 in active or anticipated federal financial assistance across multiple fiscal years.
Anderson said roughly $116,500,000 of that total was categorized by departments as potentially at risk if the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) funding freeze proposed in late January were to be implemented. “Of that total, approximately a hundred and 16,500,000.0 is what we are categorizing as a potential risk,” Anderson said.
The memo Anderson presented, compiled from submissions by each city department, identified the Department of Social Services, the Department of Public Utilities and…
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