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Lincoln Approves ARPA Funding for Local Events

The City of Lincoln is using some of its American Rescue Plan Act funding to a couple of local events that are economic drivers.

 

Lincoln Mayor Tracy Welch explains they are hoping to give a boost to the annual Balloon Festival and Railsplitter Festivals. He explains those are big economic drivers to the community and having missed out on the full benefits because of COVID, they felt this would be a good use of those funds.

 

 

The events have fallen off in recent years and the Mayor hopes these funds can potentially revive them. The balloon festival has particularly seen a fast deterioration in interest while the Railsplitter Festival has gradually lost interest.

 

 

Some Lincoln residents were not happy to hear the money would be going to those events but Mayor Welch points out those funds cannot go to just any part of the City's budget.

 

 

Lincoln City Hall could use some improvements so the Council is working to try to get those funds to go to that. 

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