ARPA funding is available to all local governments, and making use of this initiative will have a long-lasting impact on the way your community connects.
Enabling digital government with ARPA funds and Town Web
March 2020 will likely live in infinity, for various reasons, all related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic instantly changed the way we live, the way we do business and the way we interact with the world and those around us. For businesses and governments, it meant moving online to serve their communities, in ways that haven’t been done before. For local governments, it wasn’t any different: adapting their in-person ways of doing things to digital government to keep everyone safe and curb the spread of the pandemic.
However, the outbreak of the pandemic did point to two major gains for most communities. Firstly, we understood the importance of support and found new and innovative ways to support each other, even from afar. Additionally, structures have been put in place to help communities back on their feet.
One of these outreach strategies is ARPA funds. ARPA, short for American Rescue Plan Act, was signed into law in March 2021 to serve as an aid for health and economic recovery.
ARPA funding is available for two years and offers the opportunity for local governments to implement digital government within their communities. Digitization enables local governments to:
ARPA funding can be used for one of four purposes:
(b) Responding to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts.
(c) Providing premium pay to eligible workers.
(d) Providing government services.
(e) To make necessary investments in infrastructure.
Town Web has contacted Dempsey Law to help us understand how to serve you, our community, best. To make sense of the ARPA funding and how to best go about using it. You can read more about that here: https://www.townweb.com/arpa
The good news:
Town Web is ARPA approved. This means you can sign up with Town Web and use your ARPA funding to pay for the service.
Town Web, as a seasoned local government service provider, boasts 14 years of experience, in designing local government websites that are affordable, the most user-friendly system and affordable. Using Town Web guarantees municipal websites are made easy! With a communication platform which provides instant notifications to constituents and white-glove service, your website butler for enquiries, changes or updates - Town Web enables digital governance!
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ARPA funding is available to all local governments, and making use of this initiative will have a long-lasting impact on the way your community connects.
