By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune
Mesa expects to receive “tens of millions of dollars’’ in federal aid from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion relief package Congress passed last month to assist residents and businesses reeling from the recession stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mesa and four other large governments in Arizona that serve populations of 500,000 or more are first in line to receive their share of $2.8 billion allocated to Arizona from the act’s Coronavirus Relief Fund.
And all that money will be used to aid residents and businesses, since it can’t be used to fill revenue gaps for governments that result from sharp decline in revenue caused by business closures.
