Congressman Brad Schneider lately introduced tenth District municipalities have acquired $131 million in COVID comfort price range as a part of the American Rescue Plan that Schneider helped byskip in Congress in March.
Northbrook acquired $4,480,449.26, in step with a information release.
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"Our nearby cities, villages, and townships had been at the the front strains struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. The historic $131 million from the American Rescue Plan for the Tenth District will assist our groups correctly navigate via the relaxation of this pandemic," Schneider said. "With this investment, nearby municipalities will enhance public fitness, create extra jobs to construct returned the economy, and restore crumbling nearby infrastructure, which include water and sewer systems.
Other tenth District groups acquired the subsequent from the American Rescue Plan:
Buffalo Grove: $5,504,924.82
Deerfield: $2,534,815.73
Des Plaines: $7,787,945.00
Glenview: $6,431,248.66
Gurnee: $4,129,713.20
Highland Park: $4,129,713.20
Lake Forest: $4,129,713.20
Libertyville: $2,746,752.75
Mount Prospect: $7,027,870.00
Mundelein: $4,221,203.65
North Chicago: $6,271,106.00
Northbrook: $4,480,449.26
Round Lake Beach: $3,684,088.08
Vernon Hills: $3,605,376.38
Waukegan: $19,705,222.00
Wheeling: $5,253,699.92
Zion: $3,192,921.65
The U.S. Treasury's Eligible Use of Fund recommendations permit municipalities to apply those price range to:
Support public fitness expenditures, by, for example, investment COVID-19 mitigation efforts, scientific expenses, behavioral healthcare, and positive public fitness and protection staff
Address terrible monetary affects resulting from the general public fitness emergency, which include monetary harms to workers, households, small businesses, impacted industries, and the general public region
Replace misplaced public region sales, the usage of this investment to offer authorities offerings to the quantity of the discount in sales skilled because of the pandemic
Provide top class pay for critical workers, supplying extra aid to the ones who've and could endure the best fitness dangers due to their carrier in vital infrastructure sectors
Invest in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure, making important investments to enhance get right of entry to to smooth ingesting water, aid crucial wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and to enlarge get right of entry to to broadband internet.