The Sacramento Metropolis Council allotted the final greenback of its $89 million in federal coronavirus stimulus funding Tuesday.
The council authorised a bundle of its final roughly $10 million in Coronavirus Assist, Reduction and Financial Safety Act funds on a collection of job coaching initiatives to assist folks discover new jobs or regain employment.
The merchandise was the ultimate piece in a imaginative and prescient Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg outlined in Might to spend the CARES Act cash totally on applications and companies to uplift deprived communities. He selected that focus partly as a result of the Measure U gross sales tax income, which was initially supposed for use largely for that goal, was diverted to pay for core metropolis companies as soon as the pandemic hit.
“We might’ve discovered methods to plug holes in our metropolis price range or we might’ve invested in our communities, particularly our deprived communities,” Steinberg mentioned throughout a information convention Tuesday. “We now have clearly chosen the latter.”
The remark was a refined jab on the county, which is spending greater than $104 million of its CARES cash on salaries and advantages for the Sheriff’s Workplace.
The town spent a few of its CARES cash on regulation enforcement, although not practically as a lot because the county. The town spent about $2.8 million on salaries and advantages for police and fireplace personnel, associated to COVID-19, metropolis spokeswoman Jennifer Singer mentioned. The town spent one other roughly $2.8 million on salaries and advantages for different metropolis staff, associated to the virus, and about $1.3 million to arrange metropolis staff to work remotely.
The Metropolis Council ended up spending the cash primarily in 4 fundamental classes, as Steinberg proposed in Might, although the cash allotted in every one was unequal.
How will town spend the CARES Act cash?
$22.1 million for small enterprise restoration and help
▪ $16.1 million in financial reduction to small companies: Zero-interest loans granted to small companies. To date, 1,490 have utilized. The town plans to fund all eligible candidates, with some funds remaining, beginning this week, a employees report mentioned.
▪ $5 million in small enterprise technical help serving to companies navigate utility processes for grants and funding
▪ $1 million for help for outside eating. 92 eating places will obtain funding as much as $3,000 every to assist with outside eating, by the top of August.
$20 million for arts, tourism and the inventive economic system
▪ Funding to the Sacramento Zoo, Fairytale City and different candidates.
▪ About $6.9 million anticipated to be allotted subsequent week by council to members of the inventive economic system
▪ About $5.6 million anticipated to be allotted subsequent week by council towards tourism initiatives
$18.7 million for youth and workforce coaching applications
▪ $10 million for workforce improvement coaching: The council authorised this Tuesday. It consists of $1.4 million for the California Mobility Middle; $1.7 million for the Higher Sacramento City League for digital abilities coaching; $1.1 million for the Sacramento Employment and Coaching Company for job placement and supportive companies; and $400,000 for La Familia for a program to coach new healthcare staff, who’re wanted in the course of the pandemic.
▪ $2.25 million for youth enrichment, together with cash for a program that paid teenagers who accomplished service tasks associated to the virus over the summer time.
▪ $2 million for youth “pop ups,” that are night exercise nights for teenagers throughout town
▪ $1.3 million for youth psychological well being companies
▪ $1.25 million to the Black Baby Legacy Marketing campaign, which goals to scale back deaths of African American kids in Sacramento County
▪ $1.05 million to handle the “digital divide.”
▪ $250,000 for the Central Labor Council hotline, which helps folks navigate acquiring employment advantages, incapacity insurance coverage, paid sick go away and different monetary help. The hotline quantity is 916-905-1625.
▪ $150,000 for a monetary empowerment heart, which helps low and moderate-income households learn to price range, pay down debt, improve financial savings and construct credit score. To request the service, name 916-808-4927.
$15.6 million for homeless and rehousing
▪ $12.15 million for homeless response: Funding to increase motels and trailers to shelter the homeless in the course of the pandemic beneath the state’s Venture Roomkey program, rental help for tenants, manufactured models, and cash to 2 purchase inns and switch them into everlasting housing for the homeless, if chosen for a state program.
▪ $2.2 million for a meth sobering heart, and grants to Metropolis of Refuge and Saint John’s Program for Actual Change, organizations that serve homeless households
▪ $2 million in grants to native organizations that serve home violence survivors.
▪ $918,000 to scrub and disinfect homeless encampments to stop coronavirus unfold.
▪ $250,000 for lodge stays for metropolis important staff who’re nervous about giving the virus to their households after returning house from work.
▪ $150,000 for rental mediation by means of the Sacramento Mediation Middle
$4.6 million for social companies
▪ $1.4 million for a daycare program for important staff.
▪ $500,000 for group outreach to tell communities who may gain advantage from CARES funding.
▪ $250,000 for household psychological well being initiatives
▪ $250,000 for meals insecurity, together with $100,000 for use for contract to fund a youth feeding program with Sierra Well being Basis
▪ $250,000 for “Nice Plates Delivered,” a program offering free meals from native eating places to seniors’ properties in the course of the pandemic
$10.3 million for different tasks
▪ $9.6 million for citywide operational response. This consists of police and fireplace labor prices, sanitizing and disinfecting metropolis services, prices to implement telework for metropolis staff, a enterprise and group survey, and administrative prices equivalent to procurement time beyond regulation and metropolis lawyer bills, town employees report mentioned.
▪ $450,000 for council members to spend at their discretion.
▪ $250,000 for metropolis emergency provides, together with private protecting gear
The Bee’s Tony Bizjak contributed to this story.
Theresa Clift covers Sacramento Metropolis Corridor. Earlier than becoming a member of The Bee in 2018, she coated native authorities at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. She grew up in Michigan and graduated from Central Michigan College.