This past week’s Danville City Council meeting brought up some talk about COVID Recovery Money coming Danville’s way. Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr says Danville is in for a total of 24-point-seven million dollars, has already received half of it, and must have it spent by the end of 2024. Mayor Williams says, lots of people have ideas, but not everything thought of will qualify.
AUDIO: One of my greatest concerns is that people believe you can just use this money for almost any and everything, so they’re saying “fix our roads” and “do this, do that,” but unfortunately some of the things that they would desire for us to do are not permissible according to the law.
But one there is one request the mayor has heard a lot for some of this money, and he plans to make it happen.
AUDIO: Garfield Pool is currently closed, they want to make sure that we have an awesome water facility, aquatic facility.
Some future special council meetings could be scheduled for more public comment on this. One thing the mayor plans to do is have a “summary of permissible expenditures” for the funding printed up, so that the public is more understanding of what might or might not quality.
