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Quorum court reclaims $1M ARPA, redirects it to Emergency Operations Center after debate over housing project
Summary
A months-long push to use $1.4M in federal ERA2 funds and a separate $1M in county-held ARPA funds for a Mercy Housing development in Springdale prompted extended debate. After discussion and alternate proposals, the court voted not to keep the $1M with Accelerate but instead directed counsel to draft an ordinance to allocate it to the county’s EOC
Washington County’s finance quorum court spent an extended portion of Thursday’s meeting considering a proposed affordable-housing project and whether to reallocate $1,000,000 in county-held American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds previously set aside for workforce-training buildings.
Chief Executive Jeff Webster of the Accelerate Foundation updated the court on an RFP process tied to $1.4 million in ERA2 federal funds that Accelerate was asked to administer for affordable housing. Webster said two developers applied; Mercy Housing’s Springdale project — a proposed 150-unit development using a 4% low-income housing tax credit structure — won the RFP. “So we awarded the funds to Mercy Housing,” Webster said.
Mercy’s proposed project was described as a roughly $45 million development in Springdale with a mix of units targeted at 50–60% area median income. Webster…
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