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Urbana staff report ARPA is nearly spent and outline $40,037 in reallocations
Summary
City staff told the committee that of $10,059,380 awarded via a competitive ARPA process, about $8.8 million (≈88%) has been spent and roughly $160,000 may need reallocation; council approved a staff plan to reallocate $40,037 among existing projects to avoid returning funds to the federal government.
City staff updated the Urbana committee of the whole on how the city is spending its American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocations and presented a short‑term reallocation plan to exhaust remaining funds.
Champaign County Regional Planning Commission planner JD McClanahan and city management analyst Tarek Azim said Urbana received $12,970,000 from ARPA and set $10,059,380 of that through a competitive application process. "Of those funds, more than $8,800,000 have already been spent, representing about 88% of those total funds," McClanahan said, and staff count about 98% of funds as either spent or credibly allocated. That leaves roughly $160,000 that staff believe may need to be shifted among approved…
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