County of Passaic

Recovery Plan 

State and Local Fiscal Recovery 

Funds

2021 Report

County of Passaic

2021 Recovery Plan
County of Passaic 2021 Recovery Plan Performance Report 1

Table of Contents

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

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

Uses of Funds .........................................................................................................................3

Table of Expenses by Expenditure Category...........................................................................4
County of Passaic 2021 Recovery Plan Performance Report 2

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Executive Summary 

The County of Passaic was awarded $97,473,818 in State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funding. 

The Funds were awarded in March of 2021 and must be fully obligated by December 31, 2024

and fully expended by December 31, 2026. Of the total amount awarded, the United States 

Treasury has paid 50% of the funding or $48,736,909 to the County and the remaining funding 

is expected to be paid to the County in Calendar year 2022.

At this point in time, the County has not fully determined how it will direct and spend all of its 

funding. The Interim Final Rule, which is the guidance put out by the United States Treasury 

Department on how these funds may be spent, closed its public comment period on July 15, 

2021.Treasury is still reviewing the public comment and there may be modifications to the 

Guidance. The final guidance will be used to determine how the funding will be utilized.

Regardless of the guidance, the health and welfare of the citizens of Passaic County is 

paramount. The spending of these funds will be, first and foremost, directed toward testing and 

vaccine programs. The funding will also be utilized in Preakness Healthcare Center, the County 

owned and operated nursing home. Additionally, the County is reviewing potential economic 

programs to assist small businesses. 

This funding will also be used to offset any direct salary costs incurred to mitigate the virus. 

These salaries include the salaries of public safety and healthcare workers as well as the 

salaries of those employees who were diverted from their normal duties to address public health 

issues of the pandemic and specialized cleaning protocols implemented as a result of the 

pandemic. 

Pursuant to the guidance in the Interim Final Rule, the County calculated a loss of over $25

million in revenue in calendar year 2020. The County anticipates that future year revenue losses 

during the grant period are expected to be in the same range or larger. The County plans to use 

the broad latitude afforded it in the Interim Final Rule toward the provision of government 

services to address improvements and capital programs that it was not able to pursue as a 

result of that lost revenue in 2020 and future years.
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Uses of Funds

To date, the County has only expended funds to cover vaccine costs and to cover the salaries 

of public safety and health care workers as well as the salaries of other employees who were 

diverted from their regular duties to address the needs of the pandemic. As noted in the 

executive summary, a plan has not yet been formulated for the use of State and Local Fiscal 

Recovery Funding.

In addition to State and Local Fiscal Recover Funding, the County was awarded approximately 

$35 million in Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds. The County hired a firm to accept 

and review applications for rental assistance. Recently, we began distributing funds to those 

people who have qualified and who are most in need of rental assistance. 

Previously, the County received $87.5 million in CARES funding. Of this amount, approximately 

$40 million was allocated to the sixteen communities within the county based on population to 

allow them to deal directly with the affects of the pandemic within their communities. 

Approximately, $47.5 million was retained by the County to address the pandemic on a county 

wide basis. The CARES funding was basically used by the County for the following purposes; 

$10.5 million for direct testing costs, $4.5 million for small business grants, $8 million for COVID 

related salary costs, $4 million for medical costs, $0.6 million for food distribution programs and 

$20 million was used to enhance telework capabilities, building improvements for employees to 

return to work safely, personal protective equipment, nursing home costs and other direct and 

indirect costs related to testing and vaccines administration.

The County received numerous other grants as well. Our Human Services department received 

$148,507 in CSBG funding to provide assistance to homeless populations in the County. These 

funds have been fully obligated. Our Housing Department received two grants totaling $395,082 

to be used to address the needs of their tenants. Our Senior Services Department received 

funding from seven different grants totaling $2,178,921. These funds were utilized to provide 

additional home meal services to our senior citizens as well as telephone reassurance services, 

adult protective services, vaccine awareness and education. These funds were also distributed 

to Senior Services contractors to enhance the services provided to our seniors. Our Energy and 

Weatherization department received three grants totaling $338,820 to provide home energy 

benefits as well as enhance weatherization and home heating services. Additionally, our 

Economic Development department received three Community Development Block Grants

(CDBG-CV) in the amount of $3,705,836 related to COVID 19 to prevent, prepare and respond 

to Coronavirus. These funds are being utilized to provide enhanced services to numerous 

existing county health and social services provided by the County or through our local partners.
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Table of Expenses by Expenditure Category

Category Cumulative

expenditures 

to date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

1 Expenditure Category: Public Health

1.1 COVID-19 Vaccination 109,342.53 109,342.53

1.10 Payroll Costs for Public Health, Safety, and Other 

Public Sector Staff Responding to COVID-19

536,269.81 536,269.81