Resources for making strategic ARPA allocations

The American Rescue Plan delivers $350 billion to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to respond to the impact of COVID-19 and bolster economic recovery. Within that package is the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund, which directs $45.6 billion dollars to local governments.

Unlike CARES Act funding, with more limited spending discretion and a shorter deadline, local governments have until December 31, 2024 to map out their American Rescue Plan funding strategy, giving local leaders ample time to identify priorities among their community members and plan accordingly.

Below, find resources you can use to gather resident input and engage your community on ARPA allocation:

Read through our three-part blog series about how local governments have been engaging their communities, assessing feedback and communicating their allocation strategy outward.

Use our comprehensive guide to understand how to extract clear top priorities and concerns from your organic and proactive resident feedback, align with residents on your investment plan, bring council on board and monitor ongoing impact and federally-required satisfaction metrics.

Local Government Guide to ARPA Allocations

Make more informed decisions with clear resident sentiment and thoughts in hand. With Zencity’s relief fund survey template, you can survey residents with targeted questions that surface trends in resident priorities. Once your survey is live, get the word out and increase your response rate with these best practices and social media resources from the Zencity team.

Make more informed decisions with clear resident sentiment and thoughts in hand. With, you can survey residents with targeted questions that surface trends in resident priorities.

Survey Template for Community Input on Relief Fund Distribution