Public Law in Practice: Properly Using and Accounting for ARPA Relief Dollars

Thursday, February 24, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

McDonald Hopkins Event

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Earlier this month the U.S. Treasury Department issued its final rule governing the use of state, county and local government funding under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Biden administration’s signature COVID-19 relief bill. The rule finalizes government’s use of $350 billion in ARPA money set aside under a portion of the aid package known as the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF).

In this webinar presented by the McDonald Hopkins Public Law Practice Group, public law attorneys Kevin Butler and Amanda Gordon will be joined by Marnie Fredrickson, Assistant Chief Deputy Auditor in Auditor of State Keith Faber’s office, to discuss appropriate uses of and accounting for SLFRF and other federal COVID-19 relief dollars that are flowing to local and regional governments.

Topics to be covered include:

How to document expenditures
Audit process
Procurement for projects under SLFRF
Project elegibility under the Final Rule

Last month the Ohio Supreme Court appeared to have settled a question as to whether public bodies found to have violated the Open Meetings Act, R.C. 121.22 — the statute that generally requires public bodies to deliberate and make decisions out in the open — may cure their violations by simply redoing in the open what they failed to do in the first place.

The Ohio Senate continues to consider whether to adopt a measure advanced nearly unanimously by the Ohio House that would authorize many public bodies to conduct meetings virtually.

The Ohio Supreme Court determined that a township’s mailing and email lists, used for the purposes of distributing newsletters to residents and businesses, were subject to the Public Records Act, R.C. 149.43

Public Law in Practice: Properly Using and Accounting for ARPA Relief Dollars

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