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This is the April 14th, 2021 budget and appropriations committee meeting.

I'm Matt Haney, Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee.

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Thank you so much, uh, Madam Clerk.

Uh Michelle Alerzma Alerzma from the controller's office will be here to present on the federal stimulus.

I also want to note that we have planned on hearing from the mayor's budget office on the five-year financial plan update, but we will be hearing that next week instead, uh, since there is an encompassing accompanying resolution that will need to be heard on the same day.

Uh, Miss Alerzma Thank you, Supervisor Haney.

Um, Michelle Alarsma from the Controller's Office Budget and Analysis Division, and I'll share my screen and get started.

Um, so on today's agenda, we just have a presentation about um an update on federal stimulus um packages that have been approved and what they mean for San Francisco.

I'll start by mentioning that my focus today is really on the American Rescue Plan Act, um, which was signed into law by President Biden on March 12th of this year.

Um, as you are likely aware, there is also a stimulus package that was approved on December 27th of 2020.

Um, that was the Consolidated Appropriations Act or HR 133, which also had provisions um that will affect the city.

Um since this time, um, the president President Biden has proposed an American jobs plan, which is uh largely infrastructure um exceeding two billion dollars.

And Congress is currently in session and discussing the American jobs plan this week.

Um, so for today, we will focus mostly on um the American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA, as we're coming to call it.

Um at 1.9 billion dollars.

This is a very um the scope of the bill is vast and it has many, many components.

Um, which I've I've listed the largest ones here.

Um so this uh round of stimulus spending um continues many of the components that um were first approved in early 2020, um, including in the CARES Act, um, extended in December and are being now continued with ARPA, including direct stimulus payments to individuals, um extended unemployment benefits, increases to food stamps, um, PPP loans, and etc.

Um, this bill also includes um funding for FEMA to reimburse uh local governments for eligible expenses.

Um I'm gonna spend most of my time today talking about this last point on on the slide here, which is the state and local fiscal aid.

Um, in many ways, this is a continuation of and a building upon the coronavirus relief fund that was provided in the CARES Act about one year ago.

Um within this $350 billion, um there's a there are two components.

Uh slightly under 200 billion is going directly to states, and 130 billion is uh designated for the coronavirus coronavirus local fiscal recovery fund, um which is a portion between cities and counties.

And um the White House has already published the amounts, the allocations to entitlement jurisdictions, which are those which receive CDBG funding, and uh San Francisco's allocation is currently estimated and published at 636 million dollars.

Just within the coronavirus local fiscal recovery fund.

Um I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the eligible uses of the coronavirus, both state and local fiscal fiscal recovery funds.

And this text is taken directly from the bill itself.

Um there is I think we're going to be spending many months uh parsing uh what each of these things means and looking to Treasury for guidance on it.

Um the first item here of the four eligible uses, this is largely a continuation of what the coronavirus relief fund paid for.

Um it's to respond to the public health emergency and its negative economic impacts.

Um the second eligible use is essentially premium pay for government workers performing essential duties as determined by the local government executive.