American Rescue Plan Act

The City of McMinnville Projects Support Three Focus Areas

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) passed through Congress and was signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021. ARPA provides the City of McMinnville with an allocation of just over $7.7 million. Programs and projects created with these funds will assist the City of McMinnville and the community in the response and recovery from the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To create a spending plan that maximizes community benefit, the City considered:

• Allowable funding uses provided by the federal government
• The City's Strategic Plan, Mac-Town 2032
• The City Council Investment Principles for ARPA spending
• Community Engagement
• Collaboration with local partners also receiving ARPA funds

Approved ARPA Projects includes three focus areas: innovation, community and efficiency projects.

In FY2022-23 the City of McMinnville finalized spending of its ARPA allocation with the federal government compliance step of utilizing all unspent funds to date on revenue recovery, an option available to non-entitlement units receiving less than $10 million. The City of McMinnville opted to hold all of those unspent funds as committed dollars in order to complete the projects already authorized in 2022.

The spending summary by project through Mar 31, 2024 is available here.

*More information about the ARPA projects in McMinnville can be found at:

https://iheartmac.org/en/projects/the-american-rescue-plan-act

The State of Oregon Business Resiliency ARPA funding for City of McMinnville 

The State of Oregon separately granted ARPA funds to McMinnville to support Business Resiliency with the intent to assist local employers and businesses in their economic recovery  from the impacts of COVID-19 and the global pandemic.