Arts

$50 million

Expenditures:

• Arts Grants Program

Behavioral Health

$229 million

Expenditures:

• Pediatric Behavioral Health Care
• Mental Health Crisis Infrastructure
• Monitoring and Treatment

COVID Response

$64 million

Expenditures:

• PPE
• COVID Mental Health Impacts
• Local COVID Response
• Medicaid Redetermination

Food Assistance

$55 million

Expenditures:

• Food Assistance and Food Bank Infrastructure

Housing

$25 million

Expenditures:

• Habitat for Humanity Grants

Public Health

$227.7 million

Expenditures:

• Animal Disease Laboratory
• Public Health Laboratory
• Lead Poisoning Prevention and Remediation
  

Transportation

$10 million

Expenditures:

• Strategic Transportation and Development Analysis

Unemployment Compensation

$1.4 billion

Expenditures:

• Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund

Allocation

A distribution of funds or an expenditure limit established for an organizational unit or function. 

Appropriation

The designation of money for a government expenditure; the amount of money designated for a particular purpose. 

ARPA

The American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law on March 11, 2021 to provide funding for state, local, and tribal governments. The United States Department of Treasury is responsible for dispersing the funds.

Controlling Board/CB

The Controlling Board is a mechanism used to adjust the state budget. Per Section 127.12 of the Ohio Revised Code, the Controlling Board consists of seven members: the Director of the Office of Budget and Management or an employee of the Office of Budget and Management designated by the Director, the Chair or Vice Chair of the Senate and House Finance Committees, a majority member appointed from both the Senate and the House, and a minority member appointed from both the Senate and the House.

CRF

Coronavirus Relief Fund – Authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, CRF provided state and select local governments across the country with flexible funding to respond to the COVID-19 emergency. Local governments with populations greater than 500,000 received direct payments from the U.S. Department of Treasury. For all other local governments, states were required to transfer 45% of that state’s CRF allocation to local governments with populations of 500,000 or less. Nationwide allocations, FAQs, and guidance available on Treasury’s website. 

Expenditure

The execution of a previously approved or passed allocation in which government funds are spent on goods and services or distributed to programs and entities.

Final Rule

Click here for a link to the final rule. As ARPA was being developed, there was interim guidance on what the funds could or could not be used for. On January 6, 2022, DOT released the Final Rule for ARPA with guidance on what the funds can and cannot be used for. The funds CAN be used for response to the public health emergency, provide premium pay to essential workers, replace revenue lost due to the pandemic, invest in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure.

FY

Fiscal Year – a one-year period used by the government for financial reporting and budgeting that may not coincide with the calendar year.

LFRF

Local Fiscal Recovery Fund – part of the American Rescue Plan Act delivering money to local governments across the country to aid recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Line Item

A line item is a unique number identifying a specific use for funds at the state level across state budgets, state legislation, and Controlling Board allocations. Line items can be used to search for allocations at the state level and to search for expenditures within a specific line item. Most Ohio line items can be found in the Catalog of Budget Line Items. 

NEU

Non-entitlement units are local governments typically serving populations of less than 50,000.

SFRF

State Fiscal Recovery Fund – part of the American Rescue Plan Act providing state governments across the country with resources to aid recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency.