County Departments Ramp up Funding Requests

(Farmington, MO) The American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, is responsible for increased COVID related funding requests from county government departments in St. Francois County. At the Tuesday meeting of the county commission several departments were represented to make those requests. The Presiding Commissioner of the county, Harold Gallaher, says the funding is designed to alleviate problems caused by the pandemic.

Recorder of Deeds, Jay Graff, made a request at the meeting for funding to further the scanning project that is helping archive St. Francois County Records for the future. A request for money for a badge machine was forwarded by County Emergency Management Director, Nick Jones, and Prosecutor Melissa Gilliam appeared before commissioners to amend her previous funding request. All monies would come from over 13 million dollars made available through the ARPA program by the federal government.