32 Million From $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Headed Our Way
Biden Makes Us ‘Whole’, Ruffles Says
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
After a year of hemorrhaging losses, the Biden Stimulus Plan will make Otsego County government “whole,” according to County Treasurer Allen Ruffles.
“That’s what I would think,” Ruffles said, after reviewing the news he was planning to deliver when the county Board of Representatives met Wednesday, April 7, for its monthly meeting. “It would make us whole.”
In all, county government, towns, villages and school board are expecting about $32 million from President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID Stimulus Plan, signed into law March 11.
In January 2020, before the COVID-19 emergency, the county had put $4.8 million aside in savings. Soon, “that was gone, kaput,” he said. In the year since, the county gave up another $5.8 million in sales, occupancy and property taxes.
Total: $10.6 million. That means the so-called American Rescue Plan means the county will come out ahead by $400,000.
