File #: 202102023    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Emergency
File created: 5/21/2021 In control: Cincinnati City Council
On agenda: 6/3/2021 Final action: 6/3/2021
ORD/RES# date: 6/3/2021 ORD/RES#: 0209-2021
Title: ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/26/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept funds in an amount up to $7,178,997.50 from the United States Department of the Treasury as provided by the American Rescue Plan Act for the purpose of providing resources for an Emergency Rental Assistance ("ERA2") program to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic; AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the funds in Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 revenue account no. 469x8543; AUTHORIZING the establishment of American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP101, "ERA2," for the purpose of providing resources for the ERA2 program to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic; AUTHORIZING the appropriation of the sum of $7,178,997.50 from the unappropriated surplus of Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 to newly established American Rescue Plan grant project acco...
Sponsors: City Manager
Attachments: 1. Transmittal, 2. Ordinance, 3. 209-2021, 4. 209-2021 T

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ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/26/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept funds in an amount up to $7,178,997.50 from the United States Department of the Treasury as provided by the American Rescue Plan Act for the purpose of providing resources for an Emergency Rental Assistance (“ERA2”) program to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic; AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the funds in Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 revenue account no. 469x8543; AUTHORIZING the establishment of American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP101, “ERA2,” for the purpose of providing resources for the ERA2 program to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic; AUTHORIZING the appropriation of the sum of $7,178,997.50 from the unappropriated surplus of Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 to newly established American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP101, “ERA2,” for the purpose of providing resources for the ERA2 program; AUTHORIZING the City Manager to contract with third parties and take other necessary actions to quickly implement the ERA2 program; and DECLARING expenditures from American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP101, “ERA2,” to be for a public purpose.

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PASS EMERGENCY