Agenda - 09-02-2021; 8-a - Minutes

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30 1 8%. On that basis, the County's share (23%) would be $920,000. County staff have initiated 2 discussions with Town staff about jointly funding this program, but the Town's may not make 3 final funding recommendations until later in the summer. 4 5 The Street Outreach, Harm Reduction, and Deflection program is experiencing the same set of 6 circumstances. County staff have been exploring a cost share framework to support this 7 program in both the short term and long term. However, those discussions have not been 8 finalized. 9 10 Travis Myren said the expanded lunch program is part of the current budget, and other 11 items in the current budget are identified on the chart similarly. He said the rest of the items are 12 not currently part of the recommended budget, and would be supplements to existing programs, 13 or continuations of existing programs. He said programming may be funded through grants for 14 a time, and after that there would be an expectation for the programs to either be picked up by 15 some other funding mechanism or discontinued. He said the Food Council items are things that 16 the Food Council is expecting to do, and the County share is represented in the chart shared 17 with the BOCC. He said the employment and childcare category is fully funded in option 1. He 18 said the Eviction Diversion and Housing Supports programs, is almost fully funded, and this 19 does not include any contributions from the towns. He said the Towns previously contributed to 20 Emergency Housing Funds with CARES money, so this assumes none or very low contribution 21 from the Towns. 22 Commissioner Bedford asked if money would be used to cover parent fees. 23 Travis Myren said yes. 24 Commissioner Bedford asked if the County has been doing that already this year. 25 Travis Myren said yes. 26 Commissioner Dorosin asked if staff could clarify the different approaches. He said it 27 sounds like attachment 1 is a four year plan; attachment 2 is a more swift recovery, like a two 28 year plan; and attachment 3 is only for the next fiscal year. He said he assumed that the same 29 amount of money would be spent in each plan, just across different timelines; however, it seems 30 like the different approaches actually spend less money overall. 31 Travis Myren said the latter is accurate. He said there are two things going on: one is 32 the department requests, and the other is the Commissioners' amendments that propose using 33 ARPA funds. He said depending on the approach the Commissioners choose to take, some 34 choices will have to be made to rearrange funding to include the amendments. 35 Commissioner Dorosin further clarified that some of the plans do not spend all of the $28 36 million in ARPA funds. 37 Travis Myren said that is right. He said approach 2 reserves ARPA money for some of 38 those proposed amendments from Commissioners, and other things that are not currently on 39 the list, but may come up. He said it just suggests plans based on Department requests. 40 Commissioner Dorosin clarified that approach 1 spends the whole amount; approach 2 41 spends $18.8 million; and approach 3 spends $10.3 million. 42 Travis Myren continued reviewing Attachment 1. He said under revenue supports, there 43 were requests for the arts program and some small business grant programs, plus tourism and 44 hospitality recovery programs. He said there is currently $150,000 allocated in the 45 recommended budget, but this would provide additional funding for subsequent fiscal years. 46 Travis Myren said under the Response/Resiliency Category, there are one-time 47 expenditures, with the exception of the multi-factor authentication security initiative. 48 Travis Myren said under the revenue replacement category there is a unique feature of 49 the ARPA money being used to replace lost revenue. He said the County identified areas that 50 have lost revenue from the pandemic, including Arts Commission, the Visitors Bureau, and the