Posts Tagged ‘ARPA’
UPDATED: Cranston Mayor Hopkins takes City Council to court TODAY to clarify spending powers
UPDATES IN RED: Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins had announced on June 7th that, at his instruction, a Superior Court legal action has been filed on his behalf to seek judicial clarification over the powers of the chief executive and city council to expend funds from the city’s allocation of funds received from the federal American…
Read More$5.4M for 6 Providence affordable housing projects. Creating 152, preserving 241 units.
Funded projects will create and preserve hundreds of residential units across Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley proposed, and the Providence Redevelopment Agency (PRA) approved, an additional $5.4 million in funding to the Providence Housing Trust to support six new residential projects that will create 152 units of long-term affordable housing and preserve the affordability of…
Read MoreCranston to upgrade 33 playground facilities with $600K in ARPA funds, per Mayor Hopkins
Cranston Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins has announced an ordinance to commit $600,000 in ARPA funds to upgrade playground facilities across the city. “With this initiative we will make sure Cranston children and families have clean and safe playgrounds to enjoy the outdoors,” Mayor Hopkins said. The funding will be allocated equally among the six city…
Read MoreRI nonprofits can apply for grants in hunger, housing, and behavioral health TODAY
Governor Dan McKee, Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio and the Rhode Island Foundation will announce a new $20 million grant program to help Rhode Islanders with housing, hunger and behavioral health in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. The Rhode Island ARPA Support Grants Program will deliver grants of up to $150,000 to…
Read MoreUse ARPA Funds to Make Rhode Island “Age Friendly” – Herb Weiss
by Herb Weiss, contributing writer on aging With the first public hearing cancelled because of Wednesday’s nor’easter on Oct. 26, Gov. Dan McKee and Lt. Gov Sabina Matos, along with Commerce Director Stefan Pryor and their staff, came to Warren’s Hope & Main to kick off the second public hearing to gather comments about the recently released…
Read More$1.1 Billion for Rhode Island: What’s YOUR big idea? Inquiring leaders want to know.
TONIGHT is the first public input session where attendees can ask questions and make suggestions on the spending of the recovery funds in Rhode Island (see bold for information) The state of Rhode Island wants to know what you think the ARPA funds should be invested in. That’s $1.1Billion. To that end, there is a…
Read MoreThe RI Foundation wants your big ideas
The Rhode Island Foundation is seeking community input to inform state leaders as they determine how to spend $1 billion federal stimulus funds. Make It Happen: Investing for Rhode Island’s Future is a Rhode Island Foundation-led initiative to develop recommendations to state leaders for spending $1 billion in broad new stimulus funding the state is projected…
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