ARPA Memo to Council – November 2025 with appendices
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This October 27, 2025 memo from Scranton's ARPA Director provides a comprehensive timeline of American Rescue Plan Act fund deployment from Q2 2022 through Q3 2023, documenting the city's spending and grant distribution activities. The timeline tracks major milestones including the approval of the spending plan, hiring of ARPA staff, opening of grant applications across multiple categories (nonprofit recovery, small business recovery and expansion, affordable childcare, home rehabilitation, and wage boost programs), and announcement of grant recipients. Notable funding included a second tranche of $34,373,025 received in Q3 2022, and the city also launched an interactive ARPA summary dashboard and completed projects including playground transformations and downtown connectivity studies.
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