Plymouth County officials hand out millions in Cares Act money.
In Plymouth, in spite of the skeptics, including Town Manager Melissa Arrighi and Brockton Mayor Robert Sullivan, who urged the County Commissioners to hand over the 90 million dollars in Cares Act money to the state to dispense, rather than the County, the County remains confident in it’s ability to handle distribution of the federal funds.
County Treasurer O’Brien says the reason Commissioners, Dan Pallotta, Sandy Wright and Greg Hanley applied for to distribute the Cares Act money is…
“Because they knew that we could administer this and make sure the money stayed in the 27 communities of Plymouth County and they wanted to make sure that all 90 million dollars got back directly to the City of Brockton—the towns in Plymouth County.”
O’Brien says once the County received the federal funds…
“…we created a program to begin to administer those funds following the guidelines issued by the U.S. Treasury. And they’re fairly simple: the money is to be used to cover expenses incurred by municipalities that were COVID related, that occurred from March 1st to December 30th and that were unanticipated and un-budgeted at the time.”
Many communities have already applied:
“The Town of Plymouth has submitted already for a little over $600,000, Marshfield submitted and received $1.25 million, the Town of Scituate already received about a $139,000. Some of the other big submissions we have in: Norwell has submitted for a little over $280,000. Hull has submitted for about $290,000 and, not surprisingly Brockton has submitted for more than $1.6 million dollars.’
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