MONTICELLO, NY — Sullivan County doesn’t have to ask you how to spend the $14.6 million in rescue plan funds that are coming its way. Staff and lawmakers are supposed to figure that …
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MONTICELLO, NY — Sullivan County doesn’t have to ask you how to spend the $14.6 million in rescue plan funds that are coming its way. Staff and lawmakers are supposed to figure that out.
So, some citizens figured they’d see what the people wanted.
A coalition of organizations, from Action Toward Independence to the NAACP to the Committee for Equity and Justice, ran a survey online and in-person, asking folks how they would allocate the cash.
They reported the results in a letter to the Sullivan County Legislature, read aloud by clerk AnnMarie Martin last Thursday. (Although such correspondence is often just mentioned, this arrived while Martin was in a meeting that morning, she said. Legislators thus didn’t have copies to read themselves).
Here are the recommendations:
“We hope that you will keep these preferences in mind” as lawmakers debate what to do with the American Rescue Plan funds, the writers wrote.
The survey took place through the first couple of weeks of May, and 371 people responded.
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