STANWOOD CAMANO NEWS: Island County disburses federal American Rescue Plan dollars to Camano groups

Peggy Wendel reports:

Two Camano Island childcare providers are among the recipients federal American Rescue Plan dollars from Island County.

In all, the county was awarded $16.5 million. Of that, the county commissioners allocated about $9.5 million to affordable housing or infrastructure. Habitat for Humanity received $250,000 for its critical home repair program for 20 projects serving owner-occupied homes of very low-income and low-income seniors in the county.

They Said It

Commissioner Janet St. Clair: “This [grant of $75,382 to Springwood Forest School] is particularly exciting to me due to the deep need for licensed childcare, child development centers in our community,” St. Clair wrote in an email to the Stanwood Camano News.