The Greene County Commission says it has approved the remaining balance of its CARES Act Relief Funds and all the money has been allocated.
In this last grant, Innovations Salon received $1,120 and the county and partnering agencies got 1.5 million for COVID related expenses like PPE, technology and help with vaccine roll out.
The commision broke down how it spent the total $34.4 million into these categories.
- Tax Supported Entities-$6.5 million
- Small Business-$6.5 million
- Non-Profits/Community Organizations-$5 million
- Health Care-$8 million
- Education-$4.6 million
- A 10 percent reserve contingency for possible emergencies or other needs.
You can read more with a press release below…
The Greene County Commission has approved the remaining balance of the $34.4 million in CARES Act Relief Funds made available to the County for local distribution. These awards represent the final CARES grants and all funds are now allocated.
To help make the funding allocations as equitable as possible, the Commission initially divided distributions by category:
Tax Supported Entities-$6.5 million
Small Business-$6.5 million
Non-Profits/Community Organizations-$5 million
Health Care-$8 million
Education-$4.6 million
A 10 percent reserve contingency for possible emergencies or other needs.
The final allocations from the Commission vote include, $1,120 granted from the Small Business category to Aquelia Storlazzi with Innovations Salon for business interruption and approximately $1.5 million from the Reserve category to Greene County and its partner agencies for multiple COVID-related expenses and needs such as PPE, technology and vaccine roll out. The Commission elected to consider Greene County needs at the end of this process.
“We are very pleased to have these funds allocated by the federal deadline,” said CARES Grant Administrator Lyle Foster. “It has been a learning process throughout, but the community can be proud of the diligence that was taken to make sure these funds were awarded fairly so that they can have the positive impact they were designed for.”
Information related to the CARES Act funds is available on the “CARES Act Relief Fund” tab of greenecountymo.gov. This portion of the website also includes a transparency dashboard that shows the total dollar allotments by category and how much has been approved in those areas. An additional tab on this dashboard shows a list of the entities that have been awarded grants.
