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Four Cities Risk Losing ARPA Funds Next Friday
Cities getting American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds through the Oregon Department of Administrative Services (DAS) should have received multiple emails from DAS with the necessary forms and instructions to request funding.
CITIES MUST REGISTER BY OCTOBER 15, OR THEY WILL LOSE THESE FUNDS. As of October 7 at noon, the following four cities had not yet completed their registration:
| Adrian - $38,404.28 | Johnson City - $139,631.74 |
| Antelope - $11,099.50 | Summerville - $31,966.57 |
To verify the person at your city who has received this information, along with their email address, see this contact list. Cities can email DAS to update their contact at Coronavirus.ReliefFund.DAS@oregon.gov (please copy the LOC at loc@orcities.org).
The LOC has heard of at least one situation in which the DAS email was filtered as a spam, so cities are advised to please check their spam folder if the email did not come through and add the DAS address as a safe sender for future correspondence.
The LOC expects and encourages all cities will utilize their ARPA funds and will serve as a resource to member cities as they work through the process. Any city that does not plan to use the funds should contact the LOC at the email address or phone number below. One quirk of the program is that if a city tells the state they do not want the money, the state is allowed to keep the funds; but if a city fails to respond to the state, that money is distributed to the other responsive cities. The LOC asks any city not using their ARPA funds to not respond to the DAS email and instead contact the LOC at the email below, but again, our strong preference is every city use their allocation.
As always, more information on the ARPA program is available on the LOC’s ARPA Resource Hub.
Contact: Mark Gharst, Lobbyist - mgharst@orcities.org or 503-991-2192
Last Updated 10/8/21