The shot clock to distribute more than $19 billion in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to small towns and counties has started and states and municipal organizations are working to ensure these localities gets their share and understand the rules for spending the funds. But not every town wants the money. “When I ask, it’s generally they just don’t have the infrastructure to support the reporting requirements required under the law,” said Emily Brock, director for the Government Finance Officers Association’s Federal Liaison Center. “Which is understandable. They don’t want to be in a position where they [spend it and then] have to give it back.” … states are responsible for distributing funding to the more than 19,000 “non-entitlement units,” or NEUs, with populations smaller than 50,000. Most states didn’t receive that money until this month and are just now pushing it out to their small towns.
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