SCHENECTADY — The Schenectady City Council is poised to choose between purchasing a new snowplow truck and adding funding to the city’s summer youth employment program with the city’s final $140,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.
The city faces a Dec. 31 deadline to allocate the last of the $52.9 million in federal COVID relief funding it received during the pandemic, with the recipients required to spend their funds by the end of 2026.
With the city finance department recommending the city claw back $140,000 in funding from the $500,000 allocated to the nonprofit COCOA House, the council has scheduled a special meeting on Friday night at 5 p.m. to determine how the money would be spent if taken back…