93.9 The Eagle – The News and Talk of Columbia, MO
The Columbia City Council on Monday night was scheduled to vote on emergency approval of federal coronavirus relief money.
Boone County awarded the city $6,183,239.28 in CARES Act cash before the deadline near the end of 2020.
The city says it will use that cash mostly to cover public health and safety costs tied to COVID-19 in 2020:
*Public Health Related Expenditures –Not to exceed $1,918,211.84
*Public Safety Employee Expenditures –Not to exceed $3,082,252.36
*Public Entity PPE and Sanitation Funding –Not to exceed $347,775.08
*Small Business Recovery Grant Program –Not to exceed $835,000.00
