Kitsap County and local cities have used the over $24 million in federal CARES Act funding that has been designated to the area for many projects with the majority of the funds going towards public health, according to city officials. | Stock Photo
Kitsap County and local cities have used the over $24 million in federal CARES Act funding that has been designated to the area for many projects with the majority of the funds going towards public health, according to city officials. | Stock Photo
Kitsap County and local cities have used the over $24 million in federal CARES Act funding that has been designated to the area for many projects with the majority of the funds going towards public health, according to city officials.
According to an Oct. 11 Kitsap Sun news article, the biggest piece of the funds, about $8.4 million, has been used for Kitsap County staffing expenses, the county's emergency operations center and the county's public health district.
“First and foremost the priority area was really focusing on our ability to respond to COVID,” North Kitsap Commissioner Rob Gelder told the Kitsap Sun. “ A majority of it went to that effort because we had to have the ability to handle any surge or hotspot.”
According to the Kitsap Sun article, $4.5 million of the CARES Act funding has gone towards stock piling PPE, test kits, ventilators and for the set up of quarantine sites. Approximately $4.4 million has gone into assistance programs, $1.7 for school district distance learning, $2.5 million for telework equipment and infrastructure for county employees and $2 million for county facility pandemic upgrades such as plexiglass and partitions in buildings.
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