File #: RS2024-271    Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 2/23/2024 In control: Metropolitan Council
On agenda: 3/7/2024 Final action: 3/7/2024
Title: A resolution appropriating $1,630,679.00 in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Fund #30216 to extend the provision of critical immigrant legal services in Davidson County.
Sponsors: Sandra Sepulveda, Jennifer Gamble, Courtney Johnston, Delishia Porterfield, Russ Bradford, Ginny Welsch, Burkley Allen, Zulfat Suara, Emily Benedict, Jordan Huffman, Kyonzte Toombs, Jacob Kupin, Brenda Gadd, Terry Vo, Quin Evans-Segall
Attachments: 1. Exhibit A
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A resolution appropriating $1,630,679.00 in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Fund #30216 to extend the provision of critical immigrant legal services in Davidson County.
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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 Count, 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, on June 7, 2022, Metro Council passed RS2022-1560, which appropriated $1,820,585.00 in ARP Funds to Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition ("TIRRC"), working in connection with Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors ("TNJFON"), for a two-year pilot program for immigration legal services; and,
WHEREAS, RS2022-1831 appropriated an additional $272,042.00 in ARP Funds to completely fund the pilot program; and,
WHEREAS, due to the success of the program and the continued need for such services in our community, the Committee now seeks to extend the program through June 2026 and appropriate an additional $797,484.00 in ARP Funds to TIRRC and an additional $833,195.00 in ARP Funds to TNJFON; and,
WHEREAS, it is to the benefit of the citizens of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that this resolution be approved.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NA...

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