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Board directs community outreach and sets $1 million per‑district allocation from unallocated ARPA/FEMA reserve funds
Summary
Supervisors authorized a process for community outreach on unallocated funds from the county's former COVID‑19 FEMA reserve and directed staff to prepare options; the board agreed to allocate $1.0 million to each of the five supervisorial districts as a near‑term step and asked staff to return with more details on countywide uses on Aug. 5.
Contra Costa County supervisors moved to begin a public outreach process and to allocate $1,000,000 to each of the five supervisorial districts from the unallocated portion of previously reserved COVID‑19 American Rescue Plan (ARPA) / FEMA funds.
Background and board action County staff explained that earlier accounting and board actions had designated roughly $37.5 million related to hospital subsidy work into an assigned COVID‑19 FEMA reserve; at budget adoption the board had instructed staff to free up $20.9 million of that pool for possible allocations. Since the budget hearings the county has also received additional FEMA reimbursements totaling roughly $8,000,000, bringing FEMA cost recovery to about $82.1 million (about 99.6% of claimed costs for the county's FEMA public assistance COVID claims), county staff said.
At the meeting the board confirmed the need for a public process and for more detailed information from departments and community providers about existing program capacities and gaps. Supervisors voted unanimously to: - Allocate $1,000,000 to each…
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