{"id":51832,"date":"2020-09-01T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-doles-out-4-million-for-covid-related-costs\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:12:10","slug":"la-plata-county-doles-out-4-million-for-covid-related-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-doles-out-4-million-for-covid-related-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County doles out $4 million for COVID-related costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2aee66c7-9d39-4d1e-aee4-da0421908b76&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1092\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>La Plata County approved Tuesday the expenditure of nearly $4 million for expenses and reimbursements for costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In July, La Plata County applied for coronavirus relief funds from Colorado\u2019s Department of Local Affairs, receiving $3,951,740 that could be used toward the response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, La Plata County commissioners unanimously approved to allocate the money to these services:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Human Services: about $300,000 for food, rent, mortgage, utilities and child care support.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Economic support: about $900,000 for business grants to cover personal protective equipment expenditures. The county has partnered with Local First, which will set up a grant application process. The county hopes to allocate the money by mid-October.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Public health: about $600,000 for testing, contact tracing, PPE and enforcement.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">La Plata County COVID-19 expenditures: about $651,740 for county mandated services, PPE, facility safety, public education and messaging, and overtime related to the pandemic.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">General reserve: about $1.2 million will be held in a reserve should a second wave arise and require more funding.<\/em>\u201cI\u2019m excited we now have officially taken action to make these funds available for our community,\u201d said Commissioner Julie Westendorff.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Local Affairs to be spread throughout community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,1680,1512,1745,668],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-la-plata-county-commissioners","tag-la-plata-county-government","tag-la-plata-county-officials","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51832"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}