ARPA funded programs serve to help advance economic recovery to communities and households that were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The inter-departmental collaboration of the ARPA Team allows for monitoring and compliance in accordance with federal guidelines. Interdepartmental collaboration, also, provides a robust foundation for the Team to support the capacity of nonprofit organizations to manage grant funds.

With a fully staffed ARPA Team (Grants Manager, Senior Grants Accountant, Grant Management Specialist, and Grant Analyst), we have been able to leverage the City's investment in Submittable software for participant submissions and expand its use to launch our monitoring processes and track invoice submissions and payments. To note, we have successfully paid around 12% ($2,336,971.59) of encumbered funds toward programs in progress.

The fully staffed Team has been able to get and stay current on deadlines with contractual agreements and maintain consistency and equity within prioritizing our subaward needs, milestones, and reimbursements.

We also have completed standard operating procedures and process mapping for critical internal processes and have developed formal monitoring tools to maintain standards and measures for continual project progressions.

We launched City/County Joint Project meetings for monthly progress and updates and have successfully submitted the first joint project report of City/County endeavors.

All Treasury reports have been completed to date and have submitted them ahead of deadlines.