City Council approves projects to spend ARPA allocation
Memphis City Council members, Chase Carlisle (in file photo) and Edmund Ford Sr., put together a plan on how to spend the ARPA money. The plan includes $3 million each for incentives for a North Memphis supermarket or grocery store, a satellite homeless facility in Raleigh operated by the nonprofit Hospitality Hub and an affordable housing grant and loan program. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Most of the early proposals for the council’s share of ARPA funding took a cut in their dollar figures in the compromise worked out by Chase Carlisle and Edmund Ford Sr.
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