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Public Health Response

Funding of mitigation efforts, medical expenses, behavioral healthcare, and certain public health and safety staff

  • Mitigate the spread of COVID-19 – vaccination, vaccination incentives, testing, contact tracing, quarantine costs, capacity enhancements, related activities.
  • Behavioral Healthcare – mental health, substance misuse treatment, crisis intervention, related services.​​​​​​​
  • Payroll and covered benefits - public health, healthcare, human services, and public safety employees for the actual tracked time the employee spends responding to, or their entire payroll if they are “primarily dedicated” to responding to, the COVID-19 public health emergency.
    • Primarily Dedicated means public health or public safety employees where the County can show the employee spends a majority of their time responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency
    • Administrative Time. Payroll and benefits of actual time spent by an employee on administrative work necessary due to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The goal from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is a vaccination rate of >70% of the population. Salt Lake County Health Department (SLCoHD) aims to exceed the national goal by fully vaccinating 70% of eligible residents. Vaccination remains the strongest protection against severe illness and death. Data from 2/1/2021 through 11/19/2021 indicates unvaccinated Utah residents are 7.9 times greater risk of dying and 6.6 times greater risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19.

  • Adopted Budget: $1,692,234.70
  • Total Obligations: $1,692,234.70
  • Status: Complete
  • Project ID: FRF1.1_2150_A
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

Mayor Wilson and the Salt Lake County Council determined it is in the best interest of Salt Lake County to provide a vaccine incentive to employees to encourage vaccine uptake. It is imperative that those providing services to the public are healthy and that we minimize time away from work due to illness. The vaccine incentive program addressed both of those concerns. Finally, because Salt Lake County is self-insured for health insurance, helping employees avoid COVID hospitalizations makes financial sense for Salt Lake County.

The program was warmly welcomed by the County employees and their households. Nearly 250 employees received their vaccine after the announcement of the incentive. Salt Lake County also created a toolkit for other public and private entities to replicate the program.

  • Adopted Budget: $2,917,962
  • Total Obligations: $2,917,962
  • Status: Complete
  • Project ID: N/A
  • Updated 12/31/2023

The University of Utah Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI), partnering with Salt Lake County and numerous private donors and other community partners is actively constructing a new non-refusal, 24/7/365 Behavioral Health Receiving Center that will open early 2025 as the Kem & Carolyn Gardner Mental Health Crisis Center (MHCCC). 

The MHCCC will be centrally located in South Salt Lake.  It will have 30 23-hour, short-term observation chairs where individuals in behavioral health crisis will be received, deescalated, triaged and referred to the most appropriate level of care. There will be 24 co-located hospital beds where patients can be moved, if necessary. A receiving center simplifies assessing a host of challenging behavioral health conditions and transferring these individuals to where those needs can be appropriately and most effectively addressed.

  • Adopted Budget: $604,794.39
  • Total Obligations: $604,794.39
  • Status: Completed 50% or more
  • Project ID: FRF_RECCTRHMHI
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

 

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Negative Economic Impact

Respond to economic harms to workers, families, small business, impacted industries, and public sector

  • Assistance to workers and families – support for unemployed workers, aid to households, survivor benefits for families of COVID-19 victims
  • Small business support – loans, grants, in-kind assistance,
  • counseling programs
    Speed the recovery of impacted industry – tourism, travel, hospitality sectors
  • Rebuild public sector capacity – restoring staffing to pre-pandemic levels, implementing economic relief program

The Workforce Inclusion and Successful Employment (WISE) Program will connect unemployed and underemployed lower income County residents with better jobs through a 5-year pilot that evaluates the return on investment for additional services that increase the success of workforce development programs.

WISE will focus on County residents with household income at or below 200% of Federal Poverty Guidelines. These communities were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, since which time they have experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment. This program will connect 2000+ eligible residents with higher-paying jobs, while also providing a proof-of-concept for how to better serve those populations in the future.

  • Adopted Budget: $1,207,826.61
  • Total Obligations: $1,207,826.61
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_WISE
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

Salt Lake County Housing and Community Development (HCD) has administered the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI)program for the last ten years. Each home that is assisted receives a complete Healthy Homes Assessment to identify deficiencies which can cause health issues, a disproportionate energy burden or unsafe living conditions. Within GHHI, we administer an Aging in Place Program to fully retrofit a home for accessibility and mobility throughout the home, thereby allowing the elderly or physically disabled to remain in their homes and neighborhoods. For the existing program, HUD funds are used for loans or grants or a combination of both to complete the home retrofits.

This program would be an extension of the existing GHHI program to reach more households in need, particularly those impacted by COVID-19. In 2014 among Salt Lake County residents aged 65 or older, the rate of emergency calls due to fall injuries was 458.6 per 10,000 and the subsequent hospitalization rate was 130.0 per 10,000. In 2016, the fall mortality rate was 5.4 per 10,000. Intended outcomes: For the 144-193 Aging in Place projects, medical and health care cost saving of $28.8M-$38.6M (average national indicator from John Hopkins University). In addition, the program provides untold housing cost savings for the clients and a higher quality of life.

  • Adopted Budget: $11,049.98
  • Total Obligations: $11,049.98
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_GRNHLTHHOME
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

The Salt Lake Center of Opportunity Partnership (CO-OP) will provide technical assistance, counseling, and other services to assist businesses from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. The pandemic had a disproportionate effect on businesses in Salt Lake County from communities with lower economic opportunity. CO-OP will use ARPA funding to launch a long-term initiative to increase economic opportunity in Salt Lake County by increasing the availability and connection to resources that will help these businesses thrive. This builds on the Economic Development Division's success during COVID, where we provided grants and technical assistance to over 1,500 companies from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Our goal is to work with 7,500+ businesses that employ 25,000+ residents during the 5-year time frame of ARPA and launch a sustainable initiative that will continue, helping 1,500+ business annually.

  • Adopted Budget: $900,352.73
  • Total Obligations: $900,352.73
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_CO-OP
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

Rising rent and homeownership costs have exacerbated the pandemic economic hardships experienced by low income households in Salt Lake County and those living in Qualified Census Tracts. The Salt Lake Metro area is now the 10th least affordable metro area in the nation (Clever Real Estate) and more than half of Utah's households are unable to afford the State's median priced home (Gardner Policy Institute). To begin addressing the issue of affordable housing, Salt Lake County has requested $20,000,000 in ARPA funding. To maximize the impact of these funds the project will focus on four main uses:

  1. Help address the rising affordability problem for both renters and homeowners
  2. Use data and research as proactive tools to strategically invest in housing projects that support opportunity and choice. Examples: location proximity to community supports, housing form choices, and housing type choices
  3. Program will track outcomes/indicators that address both quantity, quality, and equitable access
  4. Strategically preserve affordable housing in Salt Lake County; Preliminary analysis of the Preservation data reveals that 29% of units are set to expire income restrictions between 2022 - 2030.
  • Adopted Budget: $600,780.05
  • Total Obligations: $$600,780.05
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_HTF
  • Updated:  12/31/2023

The High Needs/Medical Services program (aka. Medically Vulnerable People (MVP) provides essential services to unhoused citizens of Salt Lake County over the age of 60. This population is at an increased risk due to the intersectionality between aging and homelessness. Salt Lake County is targeting this vulnerable population with solutions to long-term housing and supportive medical/mental health services.

  • Adopted Budget: $6,000,000.00
  • Total Obligations: $6,000,000.00
  • Project ID: FRF_HIGHNEEDMED
  • Status: Completed
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

MVP is a pioneer project in Salt Lake County and Utah. It is built on the strengths of partnering organizations and an existing proof-of-concept that can be leveraged and scaled to address existing service gaps. The MVP partner organizations bring operational expertise to the acquired facility. The Road Home will provide building operations and housing case management. Fourth Street Clinic will provide medical care, assessment, and referral and care oversight. Shelter the Homeless will hold the asset and manage the property.

  • Adopted Budget: $6,000,000
  • Total Obligations: $6,000,000.00 
  • Status: Completed
  • Project ID: FRF_HIGHNEEDMED
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

The Other Side Village Homelessness Housing Initiative aims to provide housing and life skills training opportunities to the Chronically Homeless among underserved groups that were negatively impacted the most by the Pandemic. The goal is to house 54 families or individuals from these groups and set them on a path to long term housing, employment, and self-reliance.  

Salt Lake County is partnering with The Other Side Village effort to address homelessness by developing a tiny home pilot project. The pilot includes the construction of 85 tiny homes that will be used as part of a recovery program for the chronically homeless.

 

  • Adopted Budget: $0.00
  • Total Obligations: $0.00
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_O_S_VILLAGE
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

The Pre-Apprenticeship Program works with a coalition of organizations to connect underemployed Salt Lake County residents with Registered Apprenticeship Programs in the Construction and Building Trades. The coalition provides training, wraparound services, and job-readiness skills that resolve barriers that currently prevent residents from being able to leverage these apprenticeship programs that result in high-quality jobs.

  • Adopted Budget: $537,494.49
  • Total Obligations: $537,494.49
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_PREAPP
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

 

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Public Sector Capacity

To support public sector workforce

To support public sector workforce and capacity, including public sector payroll, rehiring of public sector workers, and building of public sector capacity.

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large backlog of court filings is affecting both adult and juvenile courts. This project aims to reduce the backlog by creating time-limited full-time employee positions for three of Salt Lake County's indigent defense providers.

ARPA funds will be used to hire time limited full-time employees for the county's three indigent defense providers: the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association (LDA), the Utah Juvenile Defenders Association (UJDA), and Lokken and Putnam. These new employees will expand each of the providers capacity, allowing them to work on the backlog of cases and adapt to the new demands the pandemic has created. ARPA funds will be used to hire 3 attorneys, 1 legal assistant, 1 investigator, 1 data analyst and 5 social service workers (all time-limited).

  • Adopted Budget: $1,738,608.97
  • Total Obligations $1,738,608.97
  • Status: Completed 50% or more
  • Project ID: FRF_ILSCASELOAD
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

This project aims to secure funding for an additional 22 time-limited full time employees to assist with processing the large backlog of jury trials resulting from the court shutdown in 2020. Additional funding will be requested to hire expert witnesses for these trials.

The project objective is to clear the backlog of jury trials so those awaiting justice can achieve a measure of closure and caseloads and workloads can be normalized for attorneys and staff. These additional resources will help with successful processing of all backlogged jury trials due to COVID.

  • Adopted Budget: $2,635,187.79
  • Total Obligations: $2,635,187.79
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF2.14_8200_A
  • Updated: 12/31/2023
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Infrastructure

Necessary investment to improve access to clean drinking water and to invest in wastewater and storm water infrastructure

  • Eligibility uses are aligned with the Environmental Protection Agency project categories for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
  • Allows for building or upgrading facilities and transmission, distribution, and storage system for drinking water, wastewater, and storm water.

Without additional water for the growing population, the future quality of life for Salt Lake County (SLCo) residents will decrease. Residential development and many other industries rely on adequate availability of water. Water conservation is one of the best methods for preserving Salt Lake County's water supply.

The purpose of the program is to further facilitate water conservation by integrating the land use planning of municipalities and water resources and conservation planning of water districts to improve county-wide water conservation efforts by increasing collaboration with the different municipalities and water districts. The goal of this collaboration is to create effective and individualized water conservation plans. The results of these plans will be tracked to determine their efficacy.

  • Adopted Budget: $689,239.02
  • Total Obligations: $689,239.02
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_WCLU
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

Water conservation is a priority to Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation. In an effort to conserve water, while also continuing to provide access to quality, durable, cost-effective outdoor sports fields, we propose replacing grass at several of our multi-purpose sports fields with synthetic turf. Watering one multi-purpose sports field, two acres in size, requires 14,105 gallons daily; 98,736 gallons weekly; and 2,172,192 gallons annually. To maintain (staff, water, fertilizer, aeration, mowing, etc.) one multi-purpose sports field costs $13,438 annually.

In addition to long-term water conservation, synthetic turf provides the following perks:

  • New turf fields use ZERO gallons of water,
  • improved playability—use throughout the day and year, despite weather conditions,
  • eliminates puddling or mud,
  • reduction in pesticides often used in outdoor public gathering spaces,
  • drought resistant,
  • partially made with recycled materials,
  • 10-year lifespan, and cooling technologies included in the synthetic turf design keeps it cool on hot days.

 

  • Adopted Budget: $5,607,258.77 
  • Total Obligations: $5,607,258.77
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_PARA22MAPK
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

The Flip the Strip program focuses on water conservation efforts by converting Salt Lake County's facility parking strips into water-efficient landscapes. The project will convert 142 grass turf park strips at 32 Salt Lake County facilities to water-wise landscapes. Resulting in over 5 million gallons of water saved each year.

  • Adopted Budget: $85,477.33
  • Total Obligations: $85,477.33
  • Status: Completed less than 50%
  • Project ID: FRF_FLIP
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

Salt Lake County’s Parks and Recreation has partnered with City of Riverton to convert the existing culinary water source to a secondary water source or well water. This will be accomplished by utilizing the green well or drilling a new well on Riverbend golf course. With the changes in climate and the resulting drought, conservation of water is critical to maintain the quality of life for all Salt Lake County residents.

The funds will be used to improve the Green Well by constructing a reverse osmosis filtration system once the City of Riverton has borne the costs to retrofit the well’s structure to accommodate the filtration system.  This project will improve drinking water quality.  This project would also increase drought resistance by enabling the City to use ground water, which can survive temporary drought conditions.

  • Total Budget: $ 3,000,000
  • Total Obligations: $3,000,000
  • Status: Completed 50% or more
  • Project ID: FRF_5.8_1070_A
  • Updated: 12/31/2023
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Premium Pay

To provide premium pay retrospectively for work performed at any time since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency

To respond to workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency by providing premium pay to such eligible workers of the recipient, or by providing grants to eligible employers that have eligible workers who performed essential work

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Revenue Replacement

To to use funds for the provision of government services to the extent of reduction in revenue

While calculation of lost revenue begins with the recipient’s revenue in the last full fiscal year prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency and includes the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020, use of funds for government services must be forward looking for costs incurred by the recipient after March 3, 2021.

  • Adopted Budget: $136,545,084.28
  • Total Obligations: $136,545,084.28
  • Status: Completed 50% or more
  • Project ID: FRF_2022_GOVSERVICES
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

As outlined in the Final Rule provided by the U.S Treasury Department, SLFRF funds may be used by eligible entities to offset revenue loss due to the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Specifically, SLFRF funding may be used to pay for “government services” in an amount equal to the revenue loss experienced by the recipient due to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Government services generally include any service traditionally provided by a government, including construction of roads and other infrastructure, provision of public safety and other services, and health and educational services. Funds spent under government services are subject to streamlined reporting and compliance requirements.

Revenue Loss Claimed: $88,255,066

The Jail Resource Reentry Program (JRRP) helps former inmates navigate the transition from jail back into the community by offering access to services and the support they may need to stabilize, stay healthy, and regain self-sufficiency.  A need exists to better send clients out of the jail with as much information specific to their needs and prevent them from returning to the same circumstances that led to their arrest.

  • Total Budget: $1,287,931.89
  • Total Obligations: $1,287,931.89
  • Status: Completed 50% or more
  • Project ID: FRF6.1_2400_A
  • Updated: 12/31/2023

While calculation of lost revenue begins with the recipient’s revenue in the last full fiscal year prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency and includes the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020, use of funds for government services must be forward looking for costs incurred by the recipient after March 3, 2021.

  • Adopted Budget: $59,340,000.00
  • Total Obligations: $59,340,000.00
  • Status: Completed
  • Project ID: 2021 Government Services
  • Updated: 12/31/2023
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Administrative

Cost of administering the SLFRF program

To administer the SLFRF program, including costs of consultants to support effective management and oversight, including consultation for ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and other requirements.

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