SAGINAW, MI — Saginaw leaders in September will gather for a strategy session that could help decide how the city will spend $52 million in federal stimulus.
Officials say the city will host its annual strategic planning session Friday, Sept. 17, at 8:30 a.m. at the Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw. The gathering will feature community discussion regarding the American Rescue Plan Act funds.
Additional public strategy sessions for the stimulus will follow, although those gatherings remain unscheduled.
The City Council voted to hire a Lansing-based public policy consulting firm to assist Saginaw as it devises its stimulus strategy. The firm will facilitate the September session, among other stimulus strategy-related duties, records indicate.
The $10,000 contract for Public Sector Consultants was approved during the council’s Monday, July 26 meeting.
Saginaw leaders say the $52 million in federal stimulus could prove “transformative.”
Leaders say they hope members of the community attend the September strategy session to weigh in on how to spend the funds.
Some community outreach began already. In June, a 64-minute YouTube video was uploaded that featured City Council members, Saginaw staff, and a member of the Michigan Municipal League answering resident-submitted questions relating to the stimulus.
Officials say the $52 million likely represents the largest stimulus fund available to Saginaw in its history. To put $52 million into perspective, the city operates on a $37.7 million general fund budget. Officials point out that $26 million of the stimulus will not be available to spend until next year. Still, that amount dwarfs previous stimulus additions once considered massive, including a $17.4 million blight fight fund that arrived in 2010 as part of the Obama-era Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly known as TARP.
The $52 million stimulus proposal set aside for Saginaw arrived via a $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act signed into law in March 2021. The stimulus provided $350 billion for local and state governments. Michigan-based governments will receive $10.94 billion from the stimulus bill. Detroit will receive the largest sum of all the state’s cities: $826.7 million.
Saginaw will receive the second-highest amount from the stimulus on a per-resident basis, at $1,082-per-person. Detroit tops that list at $1,234-per-resident.
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