In Plymouth, about a year ago, Plymouth County was awarded a one hundred ten million dollar grant program from the federal government
and the County undertook the disbursement and management of ARPA, or the American Rescue Plan Act program.
The ARPA program is meant to address a lot of the needs that were exposed during the pandemic—this according to Commissioner Jared Valenzola.
Commissioner Valenzola says the County has found that the highest and best use appears to be water and sewer infrastructure projects…
“…and a lot of our communities have put in those applications— and we’ve already delivered some checks. Duxbury and Marshfield, specifically, several months ago, received one point eight million, and one point seven million, respectively—and a handful of other communities currently have applications in process.”
Valenzola says, at their meeting on Tuesday of this week, the County approved…
“..four million dollars— that is, three million, nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars for the City of Brockton. It was for rehabbing Champion High School—they recently moved into the old May Center. It’s wonderful work the City is doing there and we’re pleased that ARPA funds were able to help them support that project.”
And according to Commissioner Valenzola, “As of today, we have approved fourteen million dollars to nine communities in Plymouth County with many more still in process.”
The next meeting of the County Commissioners is scheduled for Wednesday, December 14 at 10 a.m.
