With the end-of-the-year deadline approaching, the Cobb Board of Commissioners will be asked Tuesday night to approve most of what’s left of its allocated federal CARES Act funding.
You can view the full meeting agenda by clicking here.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. and can be seen on Cobb County Government’s website, YouTube and Facebook pages and its CobbTV public access Channel 23 on Comcast.
The CARES Act requests on Tuesday’s agenda call for spending $350,000 for rental assistance for people facing eviction due to COVID-related business closures, and another $350,000 to provide emergency food assistance to those in need before the end of the year.
Another $105,1000 is being requested by CobbWorks for job-training programs. In addition, the agenda item also asks for an unspecified amount of funding to be reimbursed to Cobb public safety agencies for payroll expenses related to the COVID response.
In October commissioners approved spending 20 percent of those costs with CARES Act money through Dec. 26. Tuesday’s agenda item calls for reimbursing the county’s general fund, fire fund and E-911 payroll accounts for the police and fire departments, emergency management agency and sheriff’s office.
Under the CARES Act, all spending must be designated by Dec. 31. The funding was approved by Congress to help state and local governments mitigate the economic, food, housing and other impacts of COVID-19 shutdowns.
Cobb County Government received $132 million in CARES Act funding. The biggest amount of that money, nearly $50 million, was used to provide grants to more than 3,000 locally based small businesses. Another $14 million was approved to assist renters and homeowners with rental and mortgage payments, and nearly $2 million was given to non-profits who provide food assistance.
Cobb’s six cities received a total of $10.3 million in July.
The Cobb County School District received $8.1 million from commissioners to purchase digital learning content as the school year began all-online.
A total of 68 Cobb non-profits also received a combined $842,500 in November.
Tuesday’s meeting will be the last for Cobb Commission Chairman Mike Boyce, who was defeated in his re-election bid by Commissioner Lisa Cupid, and for Commissioner Bob Ott, who is retiring after three terms serving District 2, which includes part of East Cobb and the Cumberland-Vinings area.
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