N O RT H W E S T
MISSOURIAN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2022
MARYVILLE, MISSOURI
NWMISSOURINEWS.COM
VOL. 110, NO. 18
@THEMISSOURIAN
SILVIA ALBERTI | NW MISSOURIAN
City Manager Greg McDanel announces a 48-hour closure of South Main Street starting 7 a.m. Feb. 8 - 9 for the installation of a concrete pipe. Public safety will be directing traffic in parking lots and an alternate route will be available on Munn Avenue.
City allocates $1.7 million Council talks funding, announces 48-hour Main Street closure. SIDNEY LOWRY News Editor | @sidney_lowry
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lans for allocated American Rescue Plan Act funds were discussed at the Jan. 24 City Council meeting after the original allocation of $1.7 million in December, including $500,000 for a pilot water treatment plant. City Manager Greg McDanel also announced that Main Street would be closed from 7 a.m. Feb. 8 - 9 for construction on South Main Street. The U.S. Department of Treasury released the Final Rule Jan. 6 and expanded the way the funds could be used. The ARPA was approved March 10, 2021, for aiding in public health and economic recovery from the pandemic, in which Maryville received just over $2.3 million. Of the $2.3 million allocated to Maryville, the Council approved $1.7 million of it to a variety of different places at the Dec. 13 City
Council meeting. After these allocations, Maryville has a remaining budget of $613,000 to use from the federal funding. McDanel said these ideas could include more funding for Phase II of the South Main Improvement Project, updating traffic signals, new equipment for the city, more funding for business grants or loans and more. “The discussion is really just to start thinking of the remainder of the $613,000,” McDanel said. “Almost anything now qualifies under the ARPA funds.” The Interim Final Rule of the ARPA funds were released in May 2021, in which the U.S. Department of Treasury asked for feedback on the rules that outlined the way those funds could be spent. The Final Rule of the ARPA released Jan. 6 made changes to those rules and broadened the restrictions of what that money could be used for.
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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT ALLOCATIONS FOR MARYVILLE
$500,000
Downtown Façade Grants
Stormwater Drainage
Pilot Water Treatment Plant
$432,000
$270,000
$215,000
$200,000 $110,000
$613,000 Remaining Funds
Police Pay and New Data Terminals
Park Improvements
$2.3 million in ARPA funds
Municipal Court Transfers GRAPHIC BY SIDNEY LOWRY NEWS EDITOR
Government plans at-home COVID-19, mask distribution KENNEDY KALVODA News Reporter | @KKalvoda1
President Joe Biden recently announced his plan to distribute at-home tests and N95 masks as cases of COVID-19 spike in the U.S. The University Wellness Center sent out a tweet to let students know at-home tests are now available and where to order them. The plan includes distributing four athome tests to every household and 400 million N95 masks, which will begin being distributed starting next week. The program should be fully operational by the beginning of February. Nodaway County Health Department Ad-
ministrator Tom Patterson said in an interview with the Missourian last week he was not surprised to hear about the announcement, adding that utilizing the United States Postal Service is a natural occurrence in situations like these. “Utilizing the postal service is kind of natural. If you had to get an item in the hand of every citizen by next week, whether it’s Missouri or the United States, what is one thing that’s already in place? And if you could tap into something you could utilize to accomplish that, it would naturally be the Postal Service,” Patterson said.
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