Cornyn: San Angelo Receives Coronavirus Recovery Funding

 

WASHINGTON, DC – The City of San Angelo was awarded a federal grant of $388,646 to help recover from the economic fallout of the novel coronavirus outbreakU.S. Senator John Cornyn announced today. The funding, which was appropriated by Congress last month, comes through the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of theCARES Act.

 

“The coronavirus outbreak has hit Texans hard, and as much as we can protect each other from its effects, we must,” said Sen. Cornyn.  “I’m grateful to the Trump Administration for making economic recovery in San Angelo a high priority during the outbreak.”

 

These grants may be used for a range of eligible activities that prevent and respond to the spread of COVID-19, such as: public testing; providing equipment; delivering meals; training health care workers; constructing a facility for testing, diagnosis, or treatment; improving or re-purposing an existing facility for the use of housing or treating patients; and providing grants or loans to support businesses in creating jobs and manufacturing medical supplies necessary to respond to the disease.

Subscribe to the LIVE! Daily

The LIVE! Daily is the "newspaper to your email" for San Angelo. Each content-packed edition has weather, the popular Top of the Email opinion and rumor mill column, news around the state of Texas, news around west Texas, the latest news stories from San Angelo LIVE!, events, and the most recent obituaries. The bottom of the email contains the most recent rants and comments. The LIVE! daily is emailed 5 days per week. On Sundays, subscribers receive the West Texas Real Estate LIVE! email.

Required

Most Recent Videos

Comments

Abilene received 512,000 grant. Put's to bed the argument we're comparable to Abilene.
District lines have been unfavorable to San Angelo for decades. We need to have better representation.

20four, Sun, 04/05/2020 - 06:34

Nice! I wonder how many city officials will be lining their pockets those funds

Post a comment to this article here: