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Springfield Mayor Solicits Ideas For Spending COVID Recovery Funds

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published August 31, 2021 at 12:08 PM EDT
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Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he plans to issue formal requests for proposals for spending roughly $94 million in ARPA funds

There is an online survey, meetings planned with neighborhood leaders

City Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts is asking residents and business owners in the city to weigh-in on how to spend roughly $94 million.

That is Springfield’s share of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

Mayor Domenic Sarno this month announced the creation of the Department of Recovery and Business Continuity to administer the city’s ARPA funds.

That new department has now posted an online survey for public participation.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Mayor Sarno.
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Paul Tuthill
The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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