American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The purpose of ARRA is to create jobs, promote economic recovery and assist those who are most impacted by the recession by providing $789.5 billion in tax cuts, spending provisions and general welfare assistance to eligible citizens and organizations.
An Appropriations Summary from the U.S. House of Representatives described the purpose of the act this way:
Our short-term task is to try to prevent the loss of millions of jobs and get our economy moving. The long-term task is to make the needed investments that restore the ability of average middle-income families to increase their income and build a decent future for their children.
The types of investments of interest to local government include:
- transportation and transit
- community development
- homelessness
- law enforcement
- water reclamation and reuse
- brownfields
- clean diesel technology
- neighborhood stabilization
- housing energy retrofits
- broadband technology
From this page, you can access information on:
- ARRA funding for City of Tallahassee projects, and
- projects covered under the City Commission's "local fast-track projects" initiative.
The latter effort focuses on expediting the completion of (currently) 36 local capital projects with major impact on the local economy.
Please note that all figures are estimates; the actual amounts received and disbursed are subject to change.
For more information on ARRA and on the state of Florida's role in ARRA programs, please see the following resources:
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act home page
- How to find and apply for federal grants
- Florida Office of Economic Recovery home page
You may also want to refer to the following Web sites for information about recovery/stimulus funding of projects managed by other local/regional agencies. (You may need to search these sites on terms such as "stimulus" and "ARRA" to find the relevant pages.)
- Tallahassee Housing Authority
- Leon County
- Leon County Schools
- Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency (CRTPA)
- Blueprint 2000
- Wakulla County, including:
- Gadsden County, including:
- Jefferson County