Recovery Act

Reporting & Data

The City is committed to providing regular reports and updates for residents to track progress as the City spends nearly $300 million in federal pandemic assistance. In order to best promote transparency, the City is reporting via: a data dashboard, community briefs, biannual updates to Council, and biannual reports to the U.S. Treasury.

Recovery Dashboard

The Recovery dashboard is a tool for Long Beach community members to track Recovery spending and key metrics. Community members can use this dashboard to follow the City's progress as the Citywide Recovery Team develops and improves programs. This dashboard is intended to be iterative and will be updated in August 2024.

Recovery Community Briefs

The Recovery Community Briefs are short, simple updates on the LB Recovery Act efforts produced in a community-friendly and language-accessible format. Share them with community partners or the public.

+Learn more about the Recovery Act Community Brief in English
+Entérese más sobre el Resumen Comunitario de la Ley de Recuperación en español
+ស្វែងយល់បន្ថែម អំពីសេចក្តីសង្ខេបនៃច្បាប់ស្តីពីការស្តារសហគមន៍ឡើងវិញ ជាភាសាខ្មែរ
+Alamin pa ang tungkol sa Recover Act Community Brief sa Tagalog

Reports to Council

These reports provide quick updates on upcoming programs, recent events, open grant opportunities, contracting opportunities, and ad-hoc reports to City council.

• Long Beach Recovery Act Update - January 2022
• Long Beach Emergency Rental Assistance Program (LB-ERAP) and Keep Long Beach Housed Update- January 2022
• Long Beach Recovery Act Update - February 2022
• Equity Investment Framework - March 2022
• Long Beach Recovery Act Cultural Events - May2022
• Hoops After Dark Program Restart - July 2022
• Response to Questions from the Budget Oversight Committee and the City Council Budget Hearing - September 2022
• World Mental Health Day Resource Fair- September 2022
• Formation of the Long Beach Reentry Advisory Council and Upcoming Strengthening the Reentry Network Symposium- September 2022
• Community Crisis Response Team Update- September 2022
• Long Beach Recovery Act – Small Business and Nonprofit Relief Grants- October 2022
• Health Equity Community Projects- October 2022
• Update on the Office of Youth Development- October 2022
• Safe Passage Program - October 2022
• Ready to Launch the Long Beach Micro-Transit Shuttle Program- October 2022
• Homelessness Emergency Proclamation:Small Business Recovery Support Programs- February 2023
• Economic Empowerment Zones (EEZs) Program- March 2023
• Long Beach Recovery Act-Fresh Start Long Beach Program- April 2023
• Long Beach Recovery Act-Fresh Start Long Beach Program- May 2023
• Community Crisis Response Team- August 2023
• Health Equity Community Projects- August 2023
• Response to Questions from the Budget Oversight Committee - September 2023
• Community Crisis Response Team Update- January 2024 
• Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Baseline Survey & Dashboard- February 2024
• Long Beach Recovery Act Program Changes- March 2024
• Long Beach Recovery Act Program Changes- May 2024
• Response to Questions from the City Council Budget Hearing - August 2024

Biannual Reports

The purpose of these reports is to communicate what recovery programs have been implemented, information on each program, service delivery and equity data, and to demonstrate collective impact across all Long Beach Recovery Act Programs. These reports will be provided every six months, covering the previous six months, as shown below. The reports will be linked below as we develop them.

Collective Impact & Equity Implementation Plan

The Long Beach Recovery Act Collective Impact and Equity Implementation Framework is the plan that Staff will use to implement over 80 programs with more than $255 million in funding to empower Long Beach’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis, and the impacts of systemic racism. Working together, these innovative programs support health equity, housing access, economic recovery, violence prevention, and youth development. This Framework describes how Recovery programs are designed and implemented through collective impact practices, with an equity lens, and supported by evidence-based practices. This Framework was created to create a foundation to ensure that the City is competitive for future funding opportunities that can support the City’s established Recovery focus areas and goals. The Framework also sets a path for data collection and evaluation that will allow decision-makers to decide whether to and how to best structurally support LB Recovery Act programs so they can continue supporting the community even as the funding sunsets.
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U.S. Treasury Reports

Under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the U.S. Department of Treasury adopted a Final Rule in January 2022 for the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF). These are funds that, along with other recovery-related grant funds, make up the Long Beach Recovery Act. The Final Rule provides various eligible uses for ARPA funds, including the use of funds to provide and maintain current City services (e.g., police, public safety, and parks services) to the extent of revenue lost by the City due to the pandemic.

In compliance with the Final Rule, the City’s approach will be to utilize the majority of ARPA funds to provide and maintain current City services (specifically, police, and parks services) that were originally intended to be provided by the General Fund. This approach makes available General Fund monies that are then used to enable the delivery of Council-approved programs in the Long Beach Recovery Act to residents and businesses affected by the pandemic. As a result, the City’s reporting to the U.S. Treasury will show the majority of ARPA funds being used to maintain police services and parks while the City’s Recovery Act reports will continue to show the intended and desired programs for residents and businesses. This ARPA spending approach balances programmatic funding for those most impacted by the pandemic while limiting the administrative burden associated with ARPA compliance and reporting requirements, and substantially reducing any compliance risk that could result in a mandated return of these federal funds to the U.S. Treasury.

Here are the City's reports to the U.S. Treasury: