10-12 - Request fo financially assist local school districts using CRF Program Funding

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for consideration. By September 15th, the City had received the specific requests from all districts which are listed in the Budget section below. The City has been collecting data regarding its own CRF eligible expenditures to date. Department heads have also provided a forecast of expenditures through the eligible reimbursement period of December 30, 2020. After compiling this data, although we are still computing the final numbers and there remains three months this year (which falls within the TDEM contract for covered period), the City Staff and 3 d Party Administrator are confident that we should have adequate funds to meet the school districts' requests without detracting from the City's ability to recoup its own critical COVID 19 expenses. The TEA has in fact established a deadline for the City and Schools to come to this agreement. That deadline was originally October 1St, but we were not at a point to give the Schools a confident opinion. They have extended the deadline to October 15th which has given us some additional time to review our numbers to -date. We do wish to disclose to the City Council that after further digging and questioning, our original understanding that our eligible expenses had to be above and beyond our normal operations is no longer correct. The State has decided that the City can in fact seek reimbursement for all of its first responder payroll during the COVID-19 period. We originally were told that only above and beyond due to COVID-19 would qualify, but now all of our payroll qualifies. Therefore, given the Police, Fire and EMS payroll budgets, the City could in fact request a sizable amount to receive all of its allotted COVID-19 CRF Program Funding. Therefore, the Schools request would in fact pull from what the City could receive, but given our FYI 9/20 Budget came in under, our revenue was consistent with expectations, we can still receive a sizable amount of funding after assisting the schools, and assisting the schools is a great partnership to be involved in, this would seem like a good program to pursue. It is our understanding that the TEA received CRF Program Funding, but the individual schools did not, therefore they will have to utilize their tax -supported budget to cover their expenses. BUDGET: The City was allocated $1,393,150.00 in CRF Program Funding. The Schools have requested the following amounts: 1. North Lamar ISD $18,133.00 2. Paris ISD $87,000.00 3. Chisum ISD $5,225,00 4. Total $113,358.00