The American Rescue Plan and the Coronavirus State and Native Fiscal Restoration Fund (ARPA)

Discover of Funding Availability (NOFA)

To view the Discover of Funding Availability (NOFA) for ARPA funds, please go to the Upstream Funding web site.

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On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the  American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319) into regulation. The $1.9 trillion package deal, based mostly on President Biden’s  American Rescue Plan, is meant to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, together with public well being and financial impacts. 

As a part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the $362 billion  Coronavirus State and Native Fiscal Restoration Fund offers native fiscal support to help pressing COVID-19 response efforts, cowl elevated expenditures, replenish misplaced income and mitigate financial hurt from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The distribution of the $362 billion is allotted as follows: 

• States Fiscal Restoration Fund ($219.8 billion)
• Native Fiscal Restoration Fund ($130.2 billion)
• Coronavirus Capital Initiatives ($10 billion)
• Native Help and Tribal Consistency Fund ($2 billion) 

Funds might cowl prices from March 3, 2021 by means of Dec. 24, 2024. 

Distributing ARPA Funds

Throughout FY 2021-22 funds hearings, the Board of Supervisors authorised a course of for the distribution of ARPA funds. This plan requires funding to be distributed in three major areas:

1. Funding for COVID-19 pandemic response
2. Funding for strategic investments in County departmental providers
3. Funding for direct neighborhood help

Board of Supervisors motion on ARPA funding

June 18, 2021 

Board allotted roughly $20 million to fund ongoing COVID-19 response prices, and set a timeline for the opposite funding distributions. See particulars

July 27, 2021

Board obtained an replace on the method for distributing funding on to the neighborhood. See particulars

Sept. 14, 2021

Board reviewed preliminary departmental proposals for ARPA funding and decided that suggestions from the neighborhood ought to be heard previous to choice of departmental proposals. See particulars

Nov. 2, 2021

Board obtained an replace on ARPA funding plan implementation, obtained displays and experiences on COVID-19 financial affect, and approved the Human Providers Division director to execute a contract with the chosen winner of the request for proposals for the Enterprise Useful resource Planning System. See particulars

Dec. 14, 2021 

Board allotted funding to particular departmental proposals and neighborhood funding areas; authorised neighborhood funding buckets based mostly on neighborhood want; and authorised timeline, analysis, choice and award course of for neighborhood funding awards, together with community-based proposals and departmental proposals based mostly on neighborhood want. See particulars and Press launch

Keep Knowledgeable 

On Jan. 20, the ARPA staff is internet hosting two Meet and Greets to elucidate the ARPA funding software course of and encourage collaboration when submitting an software in response to the Discover of Funding Availability (NOFA). The NOFA doc will ask candidates to create applications that straight handle board-identified funding priorities. Meet and Greets are open to all who’re excited about making use of for ARPA funds and will probably be held through Zoom on Jan. 20 at 10 a.m. – midday and 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Via an in depth neighborhood engagement course of, we have now heard the necessity to take a collaborative strategy towards distributing ARPA funds to make sure that cash and applications attain the intersections of neighborhood members most disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To draft a NOFA that helps the collaboration of each giant and small community-based organizations, the Human Providers Division and the Workplace of Fairness held a spotlight group for community-based organizations with prior expertise receiving federal funds on Jan. 6. This dialog helped inform the ARPA staff of the help that neighborhood organizations have to successfully collaborate and apply for funding to ship applications that handle inequities in our communities. To register for the morning occasion in English click on right here, for Spanish use this hyperlink. To register for the night occasion in English click on right here, for Spanish use this hyperlink. Should you want extra particulars, please e mail the ARPA staff at [email protected]

Sonoma County’s Share of the State and Native Fiscal Restoration Fund

Sonoma County is receiving a direct allocation of $96 million. The primary half of those funds have been obtained in 2021, and the second half will probably be obtained in 2022.

The County of Sonoma might use the funds to: ​

• Help public well being expenditures associated to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Deal with adverse financial impacts brought on by the general public well being emergency
• Serve low earnings communities and people, households and companies hardest-hit by the pandemic
• Present premium pay for important employees​
• Exchange public sector income misplaced as a result of pandemic
• Put money into mandatory enhancements to water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure​

Federal Steering Concerning the Use of the Coronavirus State and Native Fiscal Restoration Fund

Previous Group Engagement

Group Meet and Greet and ARPA Networking Conferences

Watch the recording of the ARPA Meet and Greet held on January twentieth. The aim was to convey collectively companies, companies, and community-based organizations to seed collaboration. Throughout these conferences attended by over 200 members (hosted within the morning and night), we obtained a number of requests to host additional networking alternatives. We then created six extra ARPA Networking Conferences from Feb. 8^th-Feb. 24^th to additional help relationship constructing and collaboration.

ARPA Group Meet and Greet Presentation

Presentación de la Reunión de ARPA Comunitaria

ARPA City Halls

Watch recordings of the 5 American Rescue Plan Act neighborhood city corridor conferences, under. You can too see the offered supplies in English and Spanish right here. 

• September 23, 6 – 8pm (District 3 – Supervisor Coursey):  Watch the recording
• October 4, 5:30 – 7:30pm (District 1 – Supervisor Gorin):   Watch the recording
• October 7^{, 5:30-7:30pm (District 5-Supervisor Hopkins):   Not accessible}
• October 13, 6 – 8pm (District 2 – Supervisor Rabbitt):  Watch the recording Half 1 & Half 2
• October 20, 5:30-7:30pm (District 4 – Supervisor Gore): Watch the recording

ARPA Precedence Funding Survey

Thanks on your enter on the ARPA precedence funding areas outlined by the federal authorities. The data was used to tell the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to set ARPA funding priorities. 

County of Sonoma ARPA Group Work Group

The ARPA Group Work Group will help the equitable distribution of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds by elevating the experiences and wishes of the low earnings communities and communities of coloration most disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. 

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Alternative to Present Suggestions 

Contributors who attended ARPA City Halls have been requested to offer suggestions on a set of questions in breakout teams. These similar questions have been posted right here to achieve a fair broader viewers. Enter from these questions was additionally used to tell the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to set ARPA funding priorities.

Group Outreach Outcomes

Via a mixed technique of in search of survey enter, holding city halls, convening listening periods with promotor teams, and suggestions from the Fairness Work Group, three native priorities for funding emerged: 

• Disparities in public well being outcomes
• Destructive financial impacts on households and people
• Must develop and fortify broadband entry

The neighborhood additionally recognized a necessity for speedy money help to these most affected by COVID-19, particularly individuals who weren’t eligible to obtain the total quantity of the federal stimulus funds