https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=5450710&GUID=383DA3A9-FF9B-4091-BFBB-BAEF61751931Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=5450710&GUID=383DA3A9-FF9B-4091-BFBB-BAEF61751931383DA3A9-FF9B-4091-BFBB-BAEF61751931-2025-04-02-20-57-50Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION ADDITIONAL COOK COUNTY AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT INITIATIVES AND ALLOCATIONS WHEREAS, on March 11, 2021, the federal government authorized the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) which includes $1.9 trillion in federal stimulus funds to hasten the United States’ recovery from the economic and health effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; and WHEREAS, the federal government has authorized $350 billion in ARPA funding to be directly allocated to eligible state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to aid in their recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; and WHEREAS, the Cook County Board of Commissioners via Resolution 21-3654 accepted the ARPA federal award allocated to Cook County to assist the County in its recovery from the economic and health effects of COVID-19 in the amount of approximately $1,000,372,385.00; and WHEREAS, Resolution 21-3654 further authorized the Cook County Budget Director and Comptroller to create and implement a Special Purpose Fund for the ARPA award and other accounting measures to track the accepWed, 02 Apr 2025 20:57:50 GMT