AGENDA DATE: 7/15/2020
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CARES Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) FY 21 Phase 1 Implementation Plan.
SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Appropriate CARES CRF funding to support Phase I of the County's CARES CRF Implementation Plan
ITEM TYPE: Regular Action Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Birch, Walker, Kamptner, DeLoria, Bessette, Allshouse, Shifflett, Johnson, Russell, Savides
PRESENTER (S): Lori Allshouse, Roger Johnson, Siri Russell, Phyllis Savides
LEGAL REVIEW: Yes
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: On June 1, 2020, the Commonwealth of Virginia provided an allocation of $9,538,621 in federal CARES Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) monies to the County of Albemarle. The Board of Supervisors approved the County's CARES CRF Initial Implementation Plan on July 1, 2020. The funding is required to be used for qualifying expenses that:
1) are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease2019 (COVID-19);
2) were not accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of March 27, 2020 (the date of enactment of the CARES Act); and
3) are incurred during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 30, 2020.
Guidance from the U.S. Treasury states that expenditures must be used for actions taken to respond to the public health emergency that may include expenditures incurred to allow the locality to respond directly to the emergency, such as by addressing medical or public health needs, as well as expenditures incurred to respond to second-order effects of the emergency, such as providing economic support to those suffering from employment or business interruptions due to COVID-19-related business closures.
The County's implementation plan, approved by the Board of Supervisors on July 1, supports the County's following Response Goals: 1) Reduce transmission to staff and public; 2) Protect people who are at higher risk; and 3) Maintain essential services, and tha...
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