Commissioners approve ARPA funds for Boulder, Whitehall water departments

At the Nov. 1 Jefferson County Commissioner meeting, commissioners approved $30,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding for both Boulder and Whitehall water and sewer departments.

The ARPA funds came available after Cardwell Elementary returned the funding it had been allocated, as it was able to fix its well instead of replace it.

“We initially gave Basin and Clancy each $250,000 of our almost $900,000 of the main ARPA money that we had available, so when this $60,000 became available we wanted to be fair,” Jefferson County Commissioner Cory Kirsch told The Monitor.