The ARPA Equity Services subgroup held its first meeting on Tuesday, October 12th. The group is responsible for allocating funds to programs related to housing, youth services, food insecurity, nonprofit infrastructure and programming/operating, medical, senior, and accessibility improvements.
The members, CMs Josh McCurn, Liz Sheehan, and Richard Moloney spent much of the hour and a half long meeting discussing nonprofit funding. Nonprofits already receive money from LFUCG through the ESR program, but this mostly goes toward programming costs. Many nonprofits could use an injection of cash for larger capital projects like repairs, improvements, or big purchases. The CMs were also more interested in these kinds of projects because they would, for the most part, be one-time expenses.
Here's what the subgroup has decided to fund, so far:
They're next meeting is scheduled for October 19th at 9am in the Government Center's 5th floor Conference Room.