Boulder eyes its COVID windfall

The Boulder City Council on Monday began wrestling with the question of how it will spend over $300,000 in federal relief funds — and with the possibility that more aid will follow.

The American Rescue Plan Act, signed into U.S. law in March, allocates funds to every state, county, and municipality in the nation to support activities intended to mitigate the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The City of Boulder is slated to receive $308,943 from the legislated funds.

But that could be just the start. As Tom Harrington, economic and community development agent at the Madison Jefferson County Extension office, told the Council, “the exciting thing is there’s so much other money out there.”