McFarland glad to get COVID-19 relief funding
by Blake Freas | Cronkite News
Mayors around the state said they welcome the $441 million in COVID-19 relief funding released by the state last week – they just wish they could have welcomed it sooner.
“The fact that this has taken so long, it’s sad,” said Flagstaff Mayor Coral Evans, one of several local leaders who said that they wish the money had come directly from the federal government and had not been filtered through the state.
Their comments came as the state sent local jurisdictions $441 million in relief funds from the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, which was signed into law two months ago. States and jurisdictions with more than 500,000 residents got their CARES Act money directly from the federal government, but smaller jurisdictions had to wait.
