American Rescue Plan Act limits state and local governments to some very specific types of fiscal recovery spending. Among them are responding to the public health emergency or its negative economic impact, premium pay for essential workers, and investment in water and sewer.
But, Mayor Mutz stated that there was no appetite for paying any compensation rewarding the employees for their hard work.
Mutz wanted
- $17.8 million for the sewer line replacement
- $1 million for affordable housing seed money
- $1 million for small business
- $640,000 to plan for trails and sidewalks connecting downtown Lakeland with the Bonnet Springs Park area.
- $250,000 for nonprofit arts groups affected by Covid
- $100,000 for neighborhood programming
- $60,000 for emergency operations software
Over 3 million of the above expenditures are NOT part of the American Rescue Plan Act limits, so why does Mayor Mutz not want to pay essential workers?
The utility workers union wants all able-bodied voters to vote to remove the current elitist mayor.
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