Pandemic Funding To Help Local Neighborhoods

 The city of Springfield is investing twelve-million dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act into a neighborhood pandemic recovery fund.Applicants are being sought for projects including public and commercial spaces, communications infrastructure and capital improvement.  

Mayor Sarno states, “The creation of this ARPA Neighborhood Economic Recovery Fund comes as a direct response from my community and neighborhood council meetings that I held last year in which my dedicated ARPA team and I met with over 30 neighborhood councils and organizations to hear their ideas on how we can best utilize our city’s allocation of ARPA funding to benefit and enhance our neighborhoods. I want to thank CDO Tim Sheehan, Tina Quagliato-Sullivan, my dedicated ARPA team and all of the neighborhood councils for their efforts and continued stewardship on behalf of our residents and business community. Again, this has the chance to be a ‘game changer’ for our Springfield. My administration is looking forward to working together with our neighborhood councils to enhancing our community for the betterment of all.”

Workshops are being planned now to assist applicants in the grant process.