This pandemic has been a crisis like none we’ve ever experienced. Throughout it, the Budget Office has worked with all City departments to ensure they have the necessary resources to meet the needs of our communities.
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There's been a lot of misinformation circulating over the last 24 hours on our CARES Act spending.
Here are the facts:
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Chicago received more than $1.2B in CARES Act funds. received nearly $300M of this for the public health response (and more than $230M in additional federal funds are coming their way).
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We also appropriated more than $94M to and for homeless and housing assistance (and we’re about to appropriate another $80M in rental assistance for struggling Chicagoans).
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We awarded more than $100M in assistance to small businesses struggling to get back on their feet. The federal govt sent another $376.7M in CARES Act funding directly to airports, including support for concessionaires affected by the pandemic.
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In addition to the CARES Act, we spent more than $30M in funds so far on PPE and facility disinfection, isolation and quarantine shelters, shelter decompression, and testing efforts.
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Of the $1.2B in CARES Act funds, the federal govt allows $470M to be used for personnel costs, including public health and public safety depts. Had the City not used this reimbursement, we would have been forced to pass the burden onto our taxpayers.
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Throughout this pandemic our first responders, including our police, firefighters, and EMTs stepped up and kept our communities safe—from performing wellness checks to securing testing sites and quarantine facilities.
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CARES Act funding has been a lifeline in this emergency. We’ll keep using every available resource to keep Chicagoans healthy and protect our most vulnerable.
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There would be more cash available for these worthwhile efforts if you weren't stupidly spending on the pathetic and ridiculous monuments project.
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