Macon-Bibb figures out how to spend federal dollars from CARES Act

Macon-Bibb County is receiving federal dollars to help with COVID-19 recovery from the CARES Act.

Deaths.

Baldwin county has 275 cases and 12 deahts.

Numbers will be updated again at 7 p-m.

Macon-bibb county is receiving federal money ... from the cares act... to help with covid-19 recovery.

41nbc's tanya modersitzki has more... on what it means for the community.

The federal government allocated more than one-point-one million dollars to macon-bibb for the fight against covid-19, to help the community get back to the way it was before the pandemic began.

The county also received more than 560-thousand-dollars for the emergency solutions grant, which is money for homeless and at risk homeless family programs. wanzina jackson with the macon-bibb economic and community development authority, says she sent out applications for funding to the macon homeless coalition and other entities.

Jackson says she is going through applications to submit to the u-s department of housing and urban development authority.

""this is a reimbursement so we have to be careful on how we spend these dollars.

We have to pay upfront."

During tuesday's committee meeting, commissioners county manager doctor keith moffett says... the county is not receiving federal