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A resolution appropriating $2,000,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Fund #30216 to the YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee for repairs and infrastructure improvements to the Weaver Domestic Violence Center.
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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 the importance of providing domestic violence services in the city of Nashville; and,
WHEREAS, the Committee recognizes that the Weaver Domestic Violence Center ("the Weaver Center"), which was built in 2000 on a 5-acre lot donated by the Metropolitan Council, is Nashville's largest emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and works closely with the Metro Office of Family Safety, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, local hospitals, and Nashville's vast network of social service agencies to provide life-saving intervention to the community; and,
WHEREAS, the Committee recognizes that the Weaver Center has been forced to expand its capacity to accommodate the surge of domestic violen...
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