The county spent $110 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds on similar programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said. However, that Rescue Plan money is drying up, as local and state governments had until the end of 2024 to designate funding to specific programs through the act and have until the end of 2026 to spend all of it.
$25M on gun violence intervention programs. Wow – Gotsa have a program. Gotsa get this done before the federal ARPA funds dry up and the program has to stop paying the program director and their valuable staff. It is just another patronage program. Ms. Taxwinkle… It doesn’t seem that these dollars and the “pROgram is having any positive effect on the City society.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
$25M on gun violence intervention programs. Wow – Gotsa have a program. Gotsa get this done before the federal ARPA funds dry up and the program has to stop paying the program director and their valuable staff. It is just another patronage program. Ms. Taxwinkle… It doesn’t seem that these dollars and the “pROgram is having any positive effect on the City society.