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A resolution amending Resolution RS2022-1906 to update the Metro Action Commission's scope of repairs and safety improvements to Metro-owned childcare centers.
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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, RS2022-1906 approved the appropriation of $2,090,000.00 from the Covid-19 American Rescue Plan Fund #30216 to the Metro Action Commission ("MAC") to provide repairs and safety improvements to Metro-owned childcare centers; and,
WHEREAS, MAC's staff has requested that funding in the amount of $325,000.00 previously allocated for the purchase of a portable at Tom Joy Head Start Center be used toward the replacement of the roof at Tom Joy; 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 NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. The Metropolitan Council accepts this resolution as a recommendation of the COVID-19 Financial Oversight Committee.
Section 2. That Resolution RS2022-1906, Exhibit A, is hereby amended by reallocating the $325,000.00 appropriation ...
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