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American Rescue Plan Act Services

American Rescue Plan Act: A Roadmap For Local Government

Delivering answers and peace of mind as you navigate spending and compliance

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On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed into law in the United States, establishing the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF). The SLFRF has $350 billion dollars available for state, local, and tribal governments to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and bring jobs back to their regions. But the new program has left cities, counties, and other authorities scrambling to navigate the complex spending and compliance requirements. Local governments need answers.

Beacon Economics has the expertise and experience to guide local leaders through the ARPA process, ensuring that you fully leverage the funding you’ve received for your community’s recovery from the pandemic. Our economists and policy analysts deliver practical, targeted, and immediately usable strategies to deploy economic development funding in compliance with ARPA/SLFRF rules and guidelines.

Beacon Economics…

Can complete a fully compliant ARPA/SLFRF spending plan in less than 30 days
Is one of the few organizations that has already created ARPA/SLFRF plans for major local governments (references available)

Our localized consulting approach will guide and assist your region’s response and its ability to distribute funds equitably, with a focus on those disproportionately impacted by the many effects of COVID-19. This funding can help keep people in their homes, connect workers to jobs, keep small businesses running, and track and mitigate the spread of the virus.

As the nation emerges from this historic and damaging pandemic, Beacon Economics is dedicated to working with local governments across the country to provide the latest ARPA/SLFRF guidance and help communities build strong, resilient, and widely inclusive futures.

ARPA Services and Approaches

ARPA Spending Plans

Beacon Economics’ is home to one of the few research teams with direct, recent experience developing customized ARPA/SLFRF spending plans for local regions. Our proposed expenditure plans ensure compliance with ARPA/SLFRF rules and guidelines and will integrate with your area’s pre-existing regional economic development strategies and priorities. The spending plans we develop include targeted recommendations for investing funds in high-impact areas, detailed intelligence on economic sectors to help direct funding, recommendations on how to deploy funds, and a strategic vision that will help guide local economic development for the foreseeable future.

Compliance Reporting

Technical assistance from Beacon Economics will ensure your region is fully compliant in its expenditure of ARPA/SLFRF funding. This includes:

  • Compliance report development
  • Technical assistance regarding ARPA/SLFRF compliance and reporting requirements
  • Audit assistance
  • Internal communication development to educate stakeholders about funding guidelines and priorities

Community Surveys and Outreach

Beacon Economics’ extensive expertise conducting opinion survey research and stakeholder engagement delivers a critical benefit to local governments in creating ARPA/SLFRF spending plans. Community engagement is a key component of any successful, well-supported plan, and our localized outreach and surveying strategy will help your region accurately gauge, and then act upon, local spending priorities. Our experience includes research studies that have addressed resident satisfaction and community priorities, community needs assessments, economic development strategies, strategic/master and general planning efforts, and other customized analyses based on local needs and preferences.

For more information

For more information about Beacon Economics’ ARPA services or any of our practice areas, please contact

Business Development Manager Daniel Fowler at 424-666-2165 or [email protected].

CONTACT Daniel Fowler