Management Response/Corrective Action Plan: When the City originally received the assistance from the American Rescue Plan Act, they intended to use part of that money to fund bonus pay to municipal workers who worked during the COVID crisis. Rather than only giving bonuses to public safety workers, Council voted that it was appropriate to compensate any employee who worked during a certain period of time out of City general funds. However, prior to the first report coming due, the guidelines were updated to include the standard allowance of up to $10 million of the allocation as Revenue Replacement. Revenue Replacement may fund any general government service, including salaries and fringe benefits, with only a few exceptions for debt service and pension contributions. Management elected at this time to elect to use the standard allowance. As noted above, management had already determined that they would expend ARPA funds for public safety workers (i.e., police and fire, and certain clerical staff who came back to work in person prior to the emergency being lifted), and these salaries and benefits were included in the Revenue Replacement on the March, 2022 report. It was not until June 21, 2022 that management transferred the bonus pay for the remaining employees; therefore, management did not consider these funds obligated or expended to the grant until they were transferred.