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December 22, 2020 Jason Brown County Administrator 1801 27th Street, Bldg. A Vero Beach, FL 32960 Subject: CARES Act Revised Spending Plan Jason, At this time,: the following is our best estimation of expenditures of CARES Act funding. 1. $255,000.00 for COVID Required Direct Expenditures: The City anticipates using this amount as reimbursement for the direct cost we have incurred and expect to continue using for special supplies and equipment needed to handle operations during the pandemic. This includes such expenses as adding technology to connect employees working from home and for conducting remote public meetings; disinfectant supplies and equipment; wellness guards at workstations serving the public; non -contact thermometers; and other expenses considered necessary to responsibly operate. 2. $110,000.00 to. COVID Required Employee Sick Leaveflime: The City will next use the allocation as reimbursement for the unbudgeted payroll expenses on City of Sebastian employees whose time was diverted to functions substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency and payroll expenses of providing paid sick and paid family and medical leave to enable compliance with COVID-19 public health precautions. 3. $403,500 to COVID-19 Small Businesses and Their Employees Grants: We discontinued this program as of September 20, 2020. We paid $380,000 directly to small business owners impacted by the pandemic, plus another $23,500 to those employees impacted that lived within our City limits and worked for those small businesses that qualified for those grants. 4. $53,898 to COVID-19 Rent and Mortgage Relief: The City has ended the application period and expects to mail checks tomorrow for the qualified applicants we have processed. This included a review of previous applications in consideration of the change in guidelines to include payments that were not past -due and $1,500 per month providing no more than $4,500 was paid 5. $101,924 Remainder to Other Qualified COVID-19 Expenditures: The remainder of the total allocation will be used as much as possible for additional expenditures in the above categories as necessary to expend the total $924,322 allocation before December 30, 2020. As we notified the County on December 18, 2020, we believe we will also incur another $150,000 over the months of January to March 2020. This is expected to include as much as $100,000 on PPE and Covid-19 related purchases and possibly another$50,000 of rent and mortgage assistance. Once again, we appreciate that these funds have been made available. Respectfully, l -J- i Kenneth W. Killgore Administrative Services Director/CFO City of Sebastian cc: Paul Carlisle, City Manager Kristin Daniels, Director - Office of Management & Budget 164