As municipal leaders begin to determine how best to use the funding provided by the American Rescue Plan (ARP) enacted by Congress and President Biden this spring, CCM’s ARP Advisory Committee has developed the following brief to help guide thinking around these actions. This is a great opportunity for local leaders to engage partners in their town and region to jumpstart a long and large economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. It also lets us address long-term issues that we haven’t had the ability to adequately deal with before, while balancing ever-changing local needs with declining support from the state and federal governments.
