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Pittsfield Housing Trust Awards $860K in APRA Funds

With an end-of-year deadline, the trust recommended three projects for funding, and extra American Rescue Plan Act monies were allocated to fill the gaps. The panel was originally awarded $500,000 to disperse.

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Dalton Board to Discuss Remaining ARPA Funds

The town will be deciding how it wants to use its remainder of the American Rescue Plan Act funds before the Dec. 31 deadline.

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Pittsfield Housing Trust Has End of Year ARPA Deadline

The Affordable Housing Trust has four months to commit a half-million dollars in American Rescue Plan Act funds.

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Bel Air Dam's $20M Demolition Facing Year-End Deadline

The $20 million allocated to demolish the Bel Air Dam will expire at the end of the year if a contractor is not chosen.

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Williamstown Select Board Commits ARPA Funds to Mount Greylock School District Project

On a vote of 4-0, the board agreed to contribute about $66,000 — what remains uncommitted from the town's original ARPA grant of about $2 million — as requested by the Mount Greylock School Committee.

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Mount Greylock Committee Accepts ARPA Offer, Sets Vote on Latin

The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday moved forward with a proposal to fund a consultant with about $66,000 of Williamstown's American Rescue Plan Act funds.

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Williamstown Officials Mull ARPA Funds to Address School Race Issue

The Select Board on Monday considered dedicating some of the town's remaining ARPA funds to address an emergency situation in the local public schools.

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Williamstown Select Board Awards ARPA Funds to Remedy Hall

On a unanimous vote, the board voted to grant the American Rescue Plan Act money to support Remedy Hall, a resource center that provides "basic life necessities" and emotional support to "individuals and families experiencing great hardship."

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Pittsfield Has Allocated Almost All ARPA Funds

The city has allocated $40.4 million of its $40.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds and the rest must be committed by the end of the year.

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Pittsfield Receives $20M For Bel Air Dam Removal

On Friday, members of the Healey-Driscoll administration celebrated the investment of $25 million in ARPA funding — most of it going to Pittsfield — to remove eight abandoned, hazardous dams in the commonwealth.

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Select Board Considers Reclaiming Ladder Truck ARPA Funds

Despite earlier reports from the district that the ladder truck had entered the paint booth in August, it was disclosed in a board meeting in October that the truck was far from completion.

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Dalton OKs More ARPA Allocations

The town had previously decided to allocate $380,000 for sewer repairs but it was announced during the Select Board meeting on Tuesday that the sewer rehabilitation bids came in substantially lower than what was projected.

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Pittsfield Shares profiles of ARPA Recipients

The city released the sixth profile, highlighting the work of Arts in Recovery for Youth (AIRY).

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Pittsfield Spent 30% of ARPA Funds By Second Quarter

Pittsfield received the funds nearly two years ago and has expended more than $12 million of the nearly $41 million award.

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Pittsfield Sees Significant Spending of ARPA Funds in First Quarter of 2023

Fifty percent ($2.1 million) funded negative economic impacts, 32 percent ($1.4 million) public health, and 15 percent (about $682,000) infrastructure.

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Williamstown Select Board Directs ARPA Funds to Elementary School Projects

Specifically, school officials attended Monday's meeting to ask the town to support an estimated $550,000 to $600,000 project to replace the two playgrounds at the preK-6 facility.

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Williamstown Library Seeking ARPA Funds for Building Study

Milne Public Library officials last week asked the Select Board to allocate American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for an architect's analysis of the Main Street facility.

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Dalton American Rescue Plan Act Committee Makes Recommendations

The town received ARPA requests amounting to $489,362 for purposes ranging from equipment replacement, sidewalk repairs, studies, and green initiatives.

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Pittsfield Council Sees Fourth Quarter ARPA Funding Uses

Armstrong also highlighted the $13.8 million that was spent on the city projects, which she said resulted in no issuance of debt or impact on utility and tax rates.

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Dalton Police Department Getting Tasers With ARPA Funds

The board voted to approve the Police Department's request for $53,000 to replace their tasers using American Rescue Plan Act funds.

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Williamstown Select Board Allocates ARPA Funds to Fire Station Project

The Select Board on Monday voted to allocate $225,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to the Williamstown Fire District's new station building project.

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Williamstown Select Board Allocates Part of Town's ARPA Funds

The four members of the board in attendance at Monday's meeting held off on deciding how to allocate the balance of the town's ARPA funds — nearly $1.4 million.

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Dalton Board OKs ARPA Funds for Sewer Project Engineering

The Select Board voted to transfer $36,000 in ARPA funds on Monday night to supplement the $50,000 that it already has appropriated for the Dalton Division Road Sewer Project.

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Roads, Housing, Fire Station on Table for Williamstown's ARPA Funds

To date, the town has spent nearly $264,000 from a $2,222,000 allotment on items ranging from about $90,000 to pay for equipment to facilitate hybrid meetings at Town Hall to $384 on personal protective equipment and other COVID-19-related supplies.