County’s municipalities lay out different strategies for federal aid
By Kevin Limiti
How Otsego County municipalities use funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) varies as widely as the towns and villages themselves.
President Joe Biden signed the law in March 2021, giving federal relief dollars to state and local governments for COVID recovery
For the City of Oneonta, this means spending the federal dollars on renovating Neahwa Park. But for Cooperstown, it simply means covering only 10 percent of revenue lost mostly to a drop in pandemic travel.
