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Alamance County chooses ARPA 'supplanting' option to free funds for emergency services and capital needs
Summary
Facing a Dec. 31 obligation deadline for unobligated ARPA funds, commissioners selected Option 3 to supplant prior eligible emergency‑services expenditures so the county can free general funds for other needs; the board debated security and licensure for a proposed diversion center but postponed any purchase decision.
Alamance County commissioners on Monday selected a strategy to obligate roughly $9.4 million in unobligated American Rescue Plan Act funds before the federal obligation deadline.
County staff presented three options: (1) purchase of a behavioral‑health diversion center (a $14 million total project with timing and licensure constraints), (2) purchase and upgrades for public‑safety radio and infrastructure, and (3) supplanting eligible emergency‑services expenditures…
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