Euclid City Council recently discussed what they will do with the remaining $200,000 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding, which will be used towards “administer pool, pool house and park improvements” at the city’s Ralph V. Memorial Pool. According to the ordinance, Euclid received $25.4 million in in combined funding from “the Coronavirus State and Local Recovery Fund, which consists of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund and Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund,” which is known as the American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA. Now, with that money mostly spent, city officials are debating what to do with the remaining amount. During a Dec. 2 City Council meeting, Planning and Development Director Patrick Grogan-Myers confirmed that the $200,000 being proposed would be the end of Euclid’s ARPA funds. According to officials the city will need to allocate the ARPA funds to a project by the end of the year and would have two years to leverage the cash for grant funding to pay for those projects if more funding was needed. “As always we would have to come back in terms of bidding and everything else,” Grogan-Myers said in response to a question from the council asking where additional funds could come from. “That’s where we would identify additional funding sources. Certainly, there are several local funding sources as well as the opportunity to leverage these dollars as grant making as well. “We will have more information on that as we have those improvements and come back and seek authorization to go out to bid and follow the standard procurement process.” Grogan-Myers said that he wasn’t sure what projects would be taken on at the pool, located at 22450 Milton Drive, but his department is working with two other city departments to develop plans. “We don’t know right now, working with the Recreation Department and the Public Service Department, what is going to be improved is going to be determined by those two departments” Grogan-Myers said. “We are just assisting both departments in procuring funding necessary for those improvements. “Certainly, there is a long list of things that are being evaluated right now so it’s mostly just trying to figure out what is the most effective use of the funds based on the most pressing needs of the pool.” The ordinance was passed as an emergency measure, meaning it could forgo a second or third reading, as is normally required for city ordinances.