12 - Coronavirus Relief Funding - plan for expenditure of funding

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2. Continue as discussed on January 25, 2021 and revisit this during the summer once more CoVid-19 expenses have accrued and a total developed. RECOMMENDATION: It would be the City Manager's recommendation that we proceed as was originally recommended in December 2020 and utilize the non -committed CRF Program Funding for equipment purchases for the purpose of addressing future disasters. This is not going to happen overnight as staff need to revisit their original lists in light of the snow storm and debriefings we have had afterwards. In addition, we will need to investigate and study solutions to certain issues (ex: to provide a generator at the pumping station will need to be studied and planned out), so this will take some time to complete. But knowing that we have the money set aside for this will give us the direction we need. In addition, taking our time to do this right will allow us the ability to utilize some of these CRF Program Funds for ongoing CoVid-19 expenses that might come up (ex: while our CoVid- 19 Vaccination Clinic has proven to be low expense, there might come some unforeseen large expense we need in order to continue to provide the clinic). Given our budget absorbed the CoVid- 19 expenses in FYI 9/20, and we are striving to do the same in FY20/21, the City Manager would recommend that we not reimburse ourselves using this funding, but rather use it to capitalize on emergency equipment purchases. In addition, the City Manager would recommend that he be tasked with developing some parameters and procedures for the expenditure of these funds including the approval process. This will be brought back to the City Council at a future meeting.