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A resolution appropriating $621,750 in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Fund #30216 to The Nashville Food Project for the Feedback Nashville Project, a community-engaged systems transformation initiative that drives Nashville's food system towards equity, justice, and sustainability by facilitating increased collaboration and collective impact between non-profits, businesses, governments, and community members.
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WHEREAS, on June 15, 2021, the Metropolitan Council passed Resolution RS2021-966, a resolution which accepted grant funds for local government support from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds established by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("ARP Funds") from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, which was subsequently signed into law by Mayor John Cooper on June 16, 2021; and,
WHEREAS, Resolution RS2021-966 established a COVID-19 Financial Oversight Committee ("the Committee") whose role is to collect, consider, and recommend appropriate uses of the ARP Funds as designated by the Metropolitan Council disbursement plan. The Committee will submit its reports and recommendations to the Mayor, the Director of Finance, and the Metropolitan Council not later than June 30, 2025; and,
WHEREAS, there are federal requirements for use of ARP Funds that require that these funds be expended or obligated on or before December 31, 2024; and,
WHEREAS, the Committee recognizes that food insecurity is a complex challenge that negatively affects hundreds of thousands of Nashville residents; and,
WHEREAS, The Nashville Food Project, proposes the Feedback Nashville Project, as described in Exhibit A, a community-engaged systems transformation initiative that drives Nashville's food system towards equity, justice, and sustainability by facilitating increased collaboration and collective impact between non-profits, businesses, governments, and community members; and,
WHEREAS, it...
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