Erie County, Pennsylvania 

Recovery Plan 

 

 State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) 

2021 Performance Report

Note: The Recovery Plan Performance Report will provide the public and Treasury information on the 

projects that recipients are undertaking with program funding and how they are planning to ensure 

program outcomes are achieved in an effective, efficient, and equitable manner. While this template 

includes the minimum requirements for the Recovery Plan, each recipient is encouraged to add 

information to the plan that they feel is appropriate to provide information to their constituents on efforts 

they are taking to respond to the pandemic and promote an equitable economic recovery. 

Each jurisdiction may determine the general form and content of the Recovery Plan, as long as it 

meets the reporting requirements, and recipients are encouraged to tailor this template to best meet 

their needs. Use of infographics, tables, charts, pictures, case studies, and other explanatory elements 

are encouraged. 
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Erie County, Pennsylvania 

2021 Recovery Plan Performance Report 

Reporting Period: SLFRF Award Date - July 31, 2021 

Submitted to US Treasury August 31, 2021 

Table of Contents 

General Overview ............................................................................................................... 2 

Executive Summary ............................................................................................................... 2 

Uses of Funds ......................................................................................................................... 2 

Promoting Equitable Outcomes .......................................................................................... 4 

Community Engagement ..................................................................................................... 6 

Labor Practices ..................................................................................................................... 7 

Use of Evidence ..................................................................................................................... 8 

Table of Expenses by Expenditure Category ...................................................................... 9 

Project Inventory ................................................................................................................ 11 
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GENERAL OVERVIEW 

Executive Summary 

In this section, provide a high-level overview of the jurisdiction’s intended and actual uses of funding including, but not 

limited to: the jurisdiction’s plan for use of funds to promote a response to the pandemic and economic recovery, key 

outcome goals, progress to date on those outcomes, and any noteworthy challenges or opportunities identified during 

the reporting period. See Section C(1) on page 24 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

As of July 31, 2021, Erie County is in the process of gathering information and developing plans for use 

of the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to support a response to the COVID-19 pandemic 

and economic recovery, as well as identifying outcome goals for key recovery strategies and projects. It 

is anticipated that Erie County Council will approve a budget for the first payout of SLFRF, which is $26.2 

million, in August 2021. 

To effectively deploy federal recovery dollars, the county’s efforts are focused on enhancing and 

realigning existing planning efforts and setting local priorities for the various areas of recovery. Prior to 

the public health emergency, implementation was well-underway of several significant, long-term plans. 

Following a three-year planning process, Destination Erie: A Regional Vision was published in 2015 with 

Emerge 2040: A Focused Partnership for the Erie Region’s Future being named the implementation 

effort. For the last five years, Emerge 2040 has worked to create a thriving, educated, livable, green and 

connected Erie County by guiding the implementation of the region’s 25-year plan. In 2016, the City of 

Erie – the largest metro area in the county - developed Erie Refocused: Comprehensive Plan and 

Decision-making Guide. The Erie Refocused Action Plan was created immediately afterward during a 

three-month planning and prioritization effort by a core group of city staff and private sector 

representatives that was assembled with the assistance of the Erie County Department of Planning and 

Community Development. The City of Erie’s strategic direction has been driven by the Erie Refocused 

Action Plan for the past four years. Millcreek Township (Embrace Millcreek, 2018), Albion Borough 

(Borough of Albion Comprehensive Plan, 2019), City of Corry (#positively Corry, 2020), and Summit 

Township (Securing Summit’s Success, 2018) are additional municipalities that have recently completed 

actionable plans, and planning efforts are currently underway with Greene Township and North East 

Township and Borough. 

Rather than abandon these implementation efforts, there is a need to review and evaluate the 

recommendations of these plans (as well as possibly others) through the lenses of economic recovery 

and equity and inclusion and prioritize those focus areas which will receive the greatest federal 

investments, such as innovation, workforce/human capital, infrastructure. The goal is to prepare Erie 

County to navigate the array of federal funding sources created by the stimulus package, including but 

not limited to the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, so that it can secure and direct resources to 

local transformative and job-creating priorities and make the greatest use of these investments, while 

also moving key community plans forward. 

Uses of Funds 

Describe in further detail your jurisdiction’s intended and actual uses of the funds, such as how your jurisdiction’s 

approach would help support a strong and equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. 
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Describe any strategies employed to maximize programmatic impact and effective, efficient, and equitable outcomes. 

Given the broad eligible uses of funds and the specific needs of the jurisdiction, explain how the funds would support 

the communities, populations, or individuals in your jurisdiction. Address how you are promoting each of the following 

Expenditure Categories, to the extent they apply: 

Where appropriate, include information on your jurisdiction’s use (or planned use) of other federal recovery funds 

including other programs under the American Rescue Plan such as Emergency Rental Assistance, Housing 

Assistance, and so forth, to provide broader context on the overall approach for pandemic recovery. 

See Section C(2) on page 24 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

Erie County is using the following framework to make decisions on how to use the State and Local Fiscal 

Recovery Funds. 

STABILIZE. If needed, funds will be used to stabilize the county’s operating budget through the 

end of 2024. The potential exists for the county to experience decreases in tax revenue over the 

next year or so. 

STRATEGIZE. Erie County will plan and invest for the future. What immediate help is needed in 

the community to support longer-term recovery? What needs to be done to ensure efforts are 

inclusive? How might these funds be used to spark future prosperity? How can these funds be 

used to compliment or boost existing plans and projects? 

COLLABORATE. Recovery will require a strong regional effort. It will be critical for the county to 

communicate and or partner with others in the community, neighboring municipalities, and 

regional entities. 

Planning efforts are focused on how to make the most of federal funding opportunities designed to 

spark economic recovery. With regards to infrastructure priorities, the County learned through the 

implementation of the Erie County CARES program that broadband needs across the county are poorly 

understood and there is no list of priority projects or goals that can be used to guide decision-making. 

Adding to the problem is that all local experts are network operators; local and regional broadband 

providers are relied on for advice, even though their decision-making models are often profit-based. 

Municipalities have a much broader and different set of interests related to broadband infrastructure. 

Additional planning is needed to develop thoughtful broadband strategies that will protect the longterm viability of the local communities. 

Federal investments in innovation will be key to Erie County’s recovery strategy and help stimulate 

existing and new businesses and technologies. In support of innovation, it will be important for Erie 

County and its partners to create financing tools and technical assistance that will serve the 

entrepreneurial ecosystem, including the most vulnerable business communities such as women and 

minority-owned and rural businesses. 

In addition to infrastructure investments, investments in the local workforce will be a vital component 

for bridging from a short- to mid-term recovery by retraining individuals and getting them back to work. 

The new Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania (EC3PA), which was approved by the 

Pennsylvania State Board of Education in July 2020 after a decade-long effort, will be a catalyst to 

enhance affordable post-secondary educational opportunities in our region. EC3PA is just beginning to 

take shape, with the inaugural class starting coursework in the fall of 2021. How can this new institution, 

as well as existing workforce training programs, support the relaunching of Erie County’s workforce? 
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Erie County has been accepted as a member of the National Association of Counties (NACo) 2021-2022 

Economic Recovery Cohort. NACo’s Economic Mobility Leadership Network (EMLN) launched a small 

sub-cohort within the Network to focus on developing equitable economic recovery plans that ensure 

short- and long-term recovery and sustainability. As a participant, Erie County will receive customized 

technical assistance and seed funding ($100,000) for building internal planning capacity and developing 

an equitable economic recovery plan. The county is required to attend monthly planning calls with 

NACo, commit to developing a detailed economic recovery plan, share best practices that will help in the 

development of case studies and a toolkit to be developed by NACo staff. Participation in the Economic 

Recovery Cohort is an excellent opportunity for Erie County to work with and learn from experts and 

other counties from across the country. It is anticipated that this work will help inform the county’s 

recovery strategy and uses of SLFRF monies. 

Promoting Equitable Outcomes 

In this section, describe efforts to date and intended outcomes to promote equity. Each annual report to follow must 

provide an update, using qualitative and quantitative data, on how the recipients’ approach achieved or promoted 

equitable outcomes or progressed against equity goals during the performance period. 

Describe efforts to promote equitable outcomes, including how programs were designed with equity in mind. Include 

how your jurisdiction will consider and measure equity at the various stages of the program, including: 

a. Goals: Are there particular historically underserved, marginalized, or adversely affected groups that you 

intend to serve? 

b. Awareness: How equal and practical is the ability for residents or businesses to become aware of the 

services funded by the SLFRF? 

c. Access and Distribution: Are there differences in levels of access to benefits and services across 

groups? Are there administrative requirements that result in disparities in ability to complete applications 

or meet eligibility criteria? 

d. Outcomes: Are intended outcomes focused on closing gaps, reaching universal levels of service, or 

disaggregating progress by race, ethnicity, and other equity dimensions where relevant for the policy 

objective? 

Describe how your jurisdiction’s planned or current use of funds prioritizes economic and racial equity as a goal, 

names specific targets intended to produce meaningful equity results at scale and articulates the strategies to 

achieve those targets. Explain how your jurisdiction’s overall equity strategy translates into the specific services 

or programs offered by your jurisdiction in the following Expenditure Categories: 

a. Negative Economic Impacts (EC 2): assistance to households, small businesses, and non-profits to 

address impacts of the pandemic, which have been most severe among low-income populations. This 

includes assistance with food, housing, and other needs; employment programs for people with barriers 

to employment who faced negative economic impacts from the pandemic (such as residents of lowincome neighborhoods, minorities, disconnected youth, the unemployed, formerly incarcerated people, 

veterans, and people with disabilities); and other strategies that provide disadvantaged groups with 

access to education, jobs, and opportunity. 

b. Services to Disproportionately Impacted Communities (EC 3): services to address health disparities and 

the social determinants of health, build stronger neighborhoods and communities (e.g., affordable 

housing), address educational disparities (e.g., evidence-based tutoring, community schools, and 

academic, social-emotional, and mental health supports for high poverty schools), and promote healthy 

childhood environments (e.g., home visiting, child care). 
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Describe your jurisdiction’s efforts to date and intended outcomes to promote equity using qualitative and quantitative 

data on how the jurisdiction’s approach achieved or promoted equitable outcomes or progressed against equity 

goals. Describe any constraints or challenges that impacted project success in terms of increasing equity. 

Describe the geographic and demographic distribution of funding, including whether it is targeted toward traditionally 

marginalized communities. 

See Section C(3) on pages 24 and 25 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

Erie County is in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania. The county’s largest urban center is the City of 

Erie, which is the fifth largest city in the state with just under 94,000 residents. When a national media 

source announced in 2017 that Erie, PA ranked highest on the list of the worst U.S. cities for Black 

Americans, and the report was then shared through USA Today, making it mainstream news, it rocked 

the community. How could this claim be true, especially with long-standing county-supported efforts 

like Erie Together, launched in 2010 as a collective impact movement to achieve economic stability for 

all citizens of Erie County, and The Erie Community Foundation’s Erie Vital Signs, also launched in 2010 

to track community indicators of social, economic, and environmental health and progress? How could 

things still be so wrong? The answer: poverty in general is a serious problem in both the City of Erie and 

Erie County. The report Facing Racial Disparities Is Erie the Worst City in America for African-Americans? 

written by Margaret Smith, Ph.D. and Suzanne McDevitt, Ph.D. and published by the Jefferson 

Educational Society in 2017 summarizes: 

In no year is the poverty rate lower in Erie than in the state and the nation. Even when 

Pennsylvania is doing better than the nation, both the City of Erie and Erie County lag. The issue 

is even more serious when we look at the disparities by major categories of race and nationality. 

There are stark differences in the poverty rate between racial groups. White poverty in Erie only 

once over the seven years of data (2010-2016) declines into the teens, at 17% in 2012, even 

though the poverty level in both the state and federal level are typically in that region. Poverty 

for Black and Hispanic residents of the City of Erie is almost always 20 points higher than for 

white residents. 

In the wake of 2020’s COVID-19 public health emergency and racial equity and social justice crisis, Erie 

County renewed its commitment to confronting racial disparities and improving the economic mobility 

of its residents. In September 2020, Erie County joined nearly 100 counties and cities across the country 

in declaring racism a public health crisis and committing resources “in all areas of its government and 

throughout all of its departments and divisions to openly and honestly address racism and to eliminate 

the disparity between Black and White people when it comes to healthcare, healthy food, safe and 

affordable housing, well-paying jobs and business ownership opportunities, quality transportation, 

educational opportunities, and safe places to be active.” Erie County Council Resolution 43 of 2020 

Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis in Erie County will provide the framework through which the 

county will establish goals and outcomes for the SLFRF monies to promote economic and racial equity. 

Since the passage of this resolution, the County created the Erie County Employee Diversity & Inclusion 

Council, and the Department of Health hired its first Health Equity Coordinator. 

An equitable economic recovery will also require bridging the divide between Erie County’s rural and 

urban communities. Erie County is a swing county in a swing state. Social, cultural, and political 

influences are proving to be divisive and compounding the economic challenges. Any countywide 
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initiative must engage and bring together leaders and residents from all the County’s 38 municipalities 

to support equitable distribution of resources.

Community Engagement 

Describe how your jurisdiction’s planned or current use of funds incorporates written, oral, and other forms of input 

that capture diverse feedback from constituents, community-based organizations, and the communities themselves. 

Where relevant, this description must include how funds will build the capacity of community organizations to serve 

people with significant barriers to services, including people of color, people with low incomes, limited English 

proficiency populations, and other traditionally underserved groups. 

See Section C(4) on page 25 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

Erie County’s engagement of the community in recovery efforts began with the distribution of CARES 

Act funding. Through its own act of law, Pennsylvania allocated $625 million of its share of CARES Act 

funding for block grants for counties. Erie County was one of 60 counties in Pennsylvania eligible to 

apply to the Department of Community and Economic Development’s COVID-19 County Relief Block 

Grant Program. The County received and distributed $24,358,828 between July 15 and December 30, 

2020. 

The breakdown of how these funds were used is as follows: $86,411 covered administration costs; 

$7,885,122 was allocated to the County’s direct response efforts; $257,215 funded PPE that was 

distributed as kits to approximately 220 small businesses; $686,690 went to 20 municipalities as 

reimbursement for eligible COVID-related expenditures; $6,800,000 was distributed in the form of small 

business assistance grants to 189 businesses; $5,675,143 was re-granted as nonprofit assistance grants 

to 137 organizations; $304,000 went to VisitErie to aggressively advertise and market Erie to bring 

visitors back from markets with a similar health status in an effort to get people working again in Erie 

County restaurants, hotels, attractions, and small businesses; $350,771 supported recovery programs 

provided by the Erie County Redevelopment Authority, Gannon University Small Business Development 

Center, and Northwest Industrial Resource Center; $105,840 was used for substance abuse and mental 

health services awareness and outreach; and $2,207,636 supported broadband initiatives. Additional 

information can be found on the County’s Erie County CARES reporting dashboard. Much was learned 

through implementation of these programs with regards to community needs and gaps in existing 

services and programs.

Beyond the Erie County CARES program, two separate initiatives engaged the broader community in 

economic recovery planning efforts in Erie County. Erie ReStart is an initiative of the Erie Regional 

Chamber and Growth Partnership designed to restart Erie’s economy in two phases: reopening and 

revamping. Over a six-month period, the Erie ReStart Task Force and five working groups (workforce, 

business engagement, marketing, capital and financing, and government affairs) engaged more than 

2,000 regional businesses via direct outreach, surveys, and virtual town halls to evaluate the impact of 

the pandemic and garner information on current needs. The town halls focused on manufacturing, 

restaurant and retail, hospitality, service-oriented businesses, arts and culture, education, and the 

minority business community. The Erie Restart working groups analyzed collected data and drafted an 

action plan, which was released as the Erie ReStart Policy Agenda in September 2020. 
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In January 2021, Erie County Council formed the ad hoc Erie County COVID Impact and Recovery 

Committee, a community outreach body tasked with investigating the impact of COVID on residents, 

businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, and minority groups. The goal of the committee is to collect data 

through town hall gatherings, online forums, surveys, and interviews and create a repository of ideas 

that will lead to Erie County's economic recovery and revitalize the economy for the future. The 

committee consists of four councilmembers and representation from the Erie County Gaming Revenue 

Authority, Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership, Jefferson Educational Society, The Erie 

Community Foundation, Erie Area Council of Governments, and the Erie County Department of Planning 

and Community Development. 

Much of the committee’s efforts focused on gathering information from content or sector experts. For 

example, representatives from the Economic Research Institute of Erie, a research center of the Black 

School of Business at Penn State Behrend, provided an assessment of the Erie County economy, and Dr. 

Bruce Katz, co-founder of New Localism Advisors and past Brookings Institute fellow, advised the 

committee on how the county might coordinate, prioritize, and execute local recovery efforts. 

Immediately following passage of the American Rescue Plan Act, County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper 

engaged representatives from various sectors in a series of discussions around priorities for the county’s 

allocation of SLFRF. Members of Erie County Council, directors of various county departments, and 

leadership from the Urban Erie Community Development Corporation, Booker T. Washington Center, 

Martin Luther King Jr. Center, Multicultural Community Resource Center, Northwest Tri-County 

Intermediate Unit 5, Erie International Airport, Erie Insurance, Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority, 

Erie Community Foundation, Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership, Erie County 

Redevelopment Authority, Erie Area Council of Governments, Emerge 2040, City of Erie, Millcreek 

Township, City of Corry, Harborcreek Township, and other municipalities met regularly from March to 

July 2021. 

Erie County values authentic and inclusive community engagement and is committed to capturing 

feedback from residents, community-based organizations, businesses, and municipalities throughout 

planning and implementation of projects/programs supported by the SLFRF. 

Labor Practices 

Describe workforce practices on any infrastructure projects being pursued (EC 5). How are projects using strong 

labor standards to promote effective and efficient delivery of high-quality infrastructure projects while also supporting 

the economic recovery through strong employment opportunities for workers? For example, report whether any of the 

following practices are being utilized: project labor agreements, community benefits agreements, prevailing wage 

requirements, and local hiring. 

See Section C(5) on page 25 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

Erie County will apply strong job quality standards to any public expenditures of the SLFRF monies, 

because a strong, fair recovery starts with respecting and protecting working people equally. All 

recipients of the county's recovery funds will be mandated to comply with all local, state, and federal 

labor, employment, health, and safety laws. These standards will ensure that all SLFRF dollars are spent 

in ways that bring people into the recovery and expand opportunity, with no exceptions. 
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Applying strong job quality thresholds for private entities receiving recovery dollars is in keeping with 

the intent of the American Rescue Plan Act. The US Department of Treasury guidance specifically 

encourages governments who spend funds on water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure investments 

to apply strong labor standards to those contracts, including project labor agreements and community 

benefits agreements that offer wages at or above the prevailing rate and include local hire provisions. Use of Evidence 

Identify whether SLFRF funds are being used for evidence-based interventions and/or if projects are being evaluated 

through rigorous program evaluations that are designed to build evidence. Specifically, in this section, recipients 

should describe their overall approach for using evidence and evaluation, including how a Learning Agenda (either 

narrowly focused on SLFRF or broadly focused on the recipient’s broader policy agenda) could support their 

overarching evaluation efforts in order to create an evidence-building strategy for their jurisdiction. However, detailed 

evidence information for each project should be included in the Project Inventory (see details in the Project Inventory 

section below). 

See Section C(6) on page 26 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

Because it is anticipated that the County and its partners will rely heavily on data to inform policy and 

programmatic decisions with regards to economic recovery, the Erie County Data Center will be an 

important resource. Launched in 2018, the Data Center is a cutting-edge hub for economic, 

socioeconomic, demographic, industrial, and environmental data about Erie County, its people, and 

properties. Data Center staff work closely with the county’s GIS team to create visualizations of data, 

serve in a supportive capacity for numerous county and City of Erie-driven initiatives, and conduct 

economic impacts studies that analyze the direct, indirect, and induced impact of local projects. The 

Data Center operates out of the Erie County Department of Planning and Community Development and 

is funded by Erie County, the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership, the Erie County 

Redevelopment Authority, and the Erie Community Foundation. 

Most recently, the Data Center was instrumental in assisting the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth 

Partnership and its partners create the Flagship Opportunity Zone. Opportunity zones are economically 

distressed communities where new investments may be eligible for preferential tax treatment, 

incentivizing development and job creation. The Flagship Opportunity Zone’s inclusion strategy was 

developed with guidance from the Data Center and calls for leveraging tax incentives to create good 

jobs, increase economic security, and mobility; eliminating the racial wealth gap; fostering greater 

housing affordability and security for families most at risk of displacement, including low-income 

households and households of color; and increasing services available to vulnerable populations such as 

affordable transportation options, health-care facilities, healthy food retail, and quality education 

services. Erie is currently home to some $750 million in ongoing investment, and Forbes recently listed 

Erie’s Flagship Opportunity Zone as one of the top 20 Opportunity Zone Catalysts. 

With regards to other data partners, the county is engaged with a variety of entities. Erie County works 

closely with Erie’s think tank the Jefferson Educational Society, founded in 2008 to promote civic 

engagement and drive community progress, and Mercyhurst University’s Civic Institute, focused on 

evaluating and improving policies and action in the areas of child welfare, criminal justice, drug and 

alcohol, health, housing, and human services. 
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Table of Expenses by Expenditure Category 

In this section, list the amount of funds used in each Expenditure Category. The table should include cumulative 

expenses to date within each category, and the additional amount spent within each category since the last annual 

Recovery Plan. For the initial Recovery Plan, the amounts listed for “Cumulative expenditures to date” and “Amount 

spent since last Recovery Plan” will be equal. Jurisdictions may modify the table as needed by deleting unused rows 

where they have not expended any funds or by adding columns to more clearly characterize their program 

expenditures over time.

Category Cumulative 

expenditures to 

date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

1 Expenditure Category: Public Health $0 $0 

1.1 COVID-19 Vaccination $0 $0 

1.2 COVID-19 Testing $0 $0 

1.3 COVID-19 Contact Tracing $0 $0 

1.4 Prevention in Congregate Settings (Nursing 

Homes, Prisons/Jails, Dense Work Sites, 

Schools, etc.)

$0 $0 

1.5 Personal Protective Equipment $0 $0 

1.6 Medical Expenses (including Alternative Care 

Facilities)

$0 $0 

1.7 Capital Investments or Physical Plant Changes 

to Public Facilities that respond to the COVID19 public health emergency

$0 $0 

1.8 Other COVID-19 Public Health Expenses 

(including Communications, Enforcement, 

Isolation/Quarantine) 

$0 $0 

1.9 Payroll Costs for Public Health, Safety, and 

Other Public Sector Staff Responding to 

COVID-19

$0 $0 

1.10 Mental Health Services $0 $0 

1.11 Substance Use Services $0 $0 

1.12 Other Public Health Services $0 $0 

2 Expenditure Category: Negative Economic 

Impacts

$0 $0 

2.1 Household Assistance: Food Programs $0 $0 

2.2 Household Assistance: Rent, Mortgage, and 

Utility Aid 

$0 $0 

2.3 Household Assistance: Cash Transfers $0 $0 

2.4 Household Assistance: Internet Access 

Programs

$0 $0 

2.5 Household Assistance: Eviction Prevention $0 $0 

2.6 Unemployment Benefits or Cash Assistance to 

Unemployed Workers

$0 $0 

2.7 Job Training Assistance (e.g., Sectoral jobtraining, Subsidized Employment, Employment 

Supports or Incentives) 

$0 $0 
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Category Cumulative 

expenditures to 

date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

2.8 Contributions to UI Trust Funds* $0 $0 

2.9 Small Business Economic Assistance (General) $0 $0 

2.10 Aid to nonprofit organizations $0 $0 

2.11 Aid to Tourism, Travel, or Hospitality $0 $0 

2.12 Aid to Other Impacted Industries $0 $0 

2.13 Other Economic Support $0 $0 

2.14 Rehiring Public Sector Staff $0 $0 

3 Expenditure Category: Services to 

Disproportionately Impacted Communities

$0 $0 

3.1 Education Assistance: Early Learning $0 $0 

3.2 Education Assistance: Aid to High-Poverty 

Districts 

$0 $0 

3.3 Education Assistance: Academic Services $0 $0 

3.4 Education Assistance: Social, Emotional, and 

Mental Health Services 

$0 $0 

3.5 Education Assistance: Other $0 $0 

3.6 Healthy Childhood Environments: Child Care $0 $0 

3.7 Healthy Childhood Environments: Home Visiting $0 $0 

3.8 Healthy Childhood Environments: Services to 

Foster Youth or Families Involved in Child 

Welfare System 

$0 $0 

3.9. Healthy Childhood Environments: Other $0 $0 

3.10 Housing Support: Affordable Housing $0 $0 

3.11 Housing Support: Services for Unhoused 

persons 

$0 $0 

3.12 Housing Support: Other Housing Assistance $0 $0 

3.13 Social Determinants of Health: Other $0 $0 

3.14 Social Determinants of Health: Community 

Health Workers or Benefits Navigators 

$0 $0 

3.15 Social Determinants of Health: Lead 

Remediation

$0 $0 

3.16 Social Determinants of Health: Community 

Violence Interventions 

$0 $0 

4 Expenditure Category: Premium Pay $0 $0 

4.1 Public Sector Employees $0 $0 

4.2 Private Sector: Grants to other employers $0 $0 

5 Expenditure Category: Infrastructure $0 $0 

5.1 Clean Water: Centralized wastewater treatment $0 $0 

5.2 Clean Water: Centralized wastewater collection 

and conveyance

$0 $0 

5.3 Clean Water: Decentralized wastewater $0 $0 

5.4 Clean Water: Combined sewer overflows $0 $0 
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Category Cumulative 

expenditures to 

date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

5.5 Clean Water: Other sewer infrastructure $0 $0 

5.6 Clean Water: Stormwater $0 $0 

5.7 Clean Water: Energy conservation $0 $0 

5.8 Clean Water: Water conservation $0 $0 

5.9 Clean Water: Nonpoint source $0 $0 

5.10 Drinking water: Treatment $0 $0 

5.11 Drinking water: Transmission & distribution $0 $0 

5.12 Drinking water: Transmission & distribution: 

Lead remediation 

$0 $0 

5.13 Drinking water: Source $0 $0 

5.14 Drinking water: Storage $0 $0 

5.15 Drinking water: Other water infrastructure $0 $0 

5.16 Broadband: “Last Mile” projects $0 $0 

5.17 Broadband: Other projects $0 $0 

6 Expenditure Category: Revenue 

Replacement

$0 $0 

6.1 Provision of Government Services $0 $0 

7 Administrative and Other $0 $0 

7.1 Administrative Expenses $0 $0 

7.2 Evaluation and data analysis $0 $0 

7.3 Transfers to Other Units of Government $0 $0 

See Section C(7) on page 27 of the Reporting Guidance for additional information. 

Project Inventory 

In this section, jurisdictions should provide a description of each project undertaken. See Section C(8) on page 27 of 

the Reporting Guidance for additional information. Below is an example of how to present the information noted in the 

Reporting Guidance, which incorporates project details as well as evidence and performance measure information 

outlined in the relevant sections above. This information should be replicated for all the jurisdiction’s projects. 

A Project Inventory is not yet available. As of July 31, 2021, Erie County is in the process of gathering 

information and developing plans for use of the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to support a 

response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery, as well as identifying outcome goals for 

key recovery strategies and projects. Erie County Council will approve a budget for the first payout of 

SLFRF, which is $26.2 million, on August 5, 2021. 

Subsequent Recovery Plan Performance Reports will include a description of each project undertaken by 

Erie County using SLFRF. Descriptions will include project details as well as evidence supporting the 

project type or model and performance measures, which will be used to evaluate the impact of the 

project.