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RESOLUTION 9XXX CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA ACCEPTING AND ALLOCATING CARES ACT FUNDING WHEREAS, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided federal funds to the State of Minnesota and the legislature and Governor thereby distributed these funds to local governments throughout Minnesota to deal with the financial impacts of COVID 19; and WHEREAS, the City of Mounds View staff have worked with the League of Minnesota Cities and in-turn the National League of Cities, Department of Treasury and the White House for clarification of eligible uses; and WHEREAS, the CARES funding requires a three-point test for utilization of the funds that they be necessary expenditures for responding to COVID 19, not accounted for in the original budget process and incurred during the period of March 1, 2020 to November 15, 2020; and WHEREAS, guidance from the United States Treasury for State, Territorial, Local and Tribal Governments outlined in their Frequently Asked Questions, most recently updated on July 8, 2020, indicated that local governments “may presume that payroll costs for the public health and public safety employees are payments for services substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency…”; and WHEREAS, League of Minnesota Cities, Minnesota Association of Counties, and Minnesota Association of Townships have worked in consultation with Minnesota Management and Budget’s Minnesota COVID Response Accountability Office and Minnesota Department of Revenue to provide further direction on the use of CARES funding for regular police and fire payroll and also indicated we may presume these regular payroll public safety expenses as being dedicated to a COVID-19 response; and WHEREAS, the City of Mounds View public safety personnel have adopted new COVID-19 response procedures, given direction on the Governor’s Executive Orders to monitor/enforce COVID provisions for EO 20-04, modified other internal policies and restricted vacation leave requests, developed messaging for the “Stay at Home” EO, dealt with COVID patients, been a full partner with Ramsey County Public Health in the Emergency Operations Center efforts, served as the point of contact for the City’s adopted pandemic plan, had other training and programs modified or cancelled to the extent these all present a modification of their operations, caused by the pandemic, and otherwise not provided for in our annual budget now become a reimbursable cost under CARES funding; and