The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released official allocations for the coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds, as well as an interim final rule providing guidance on how the funds may be used. Washington State Wire has an overview here. Like the coronavirus relief fund (CRF, part of the CARES Act), the state and local fiscal recovery funds provide fairly flexible relief for state and local governments.

Initially, Washington’s state and local governments were expected to receive $6.914 billion from the coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds. According to Treasury, they will officially receive $7.120 billion. The state itself will receive $4.428 billion. Counties in Washington will receive $1.479 billion from the local fiscal recovery fund, ranging from $432,180 for Garfield County to $437.6 million for King County. Metropolitan cities in Washington (34 in all) will receive $770.4 million, ranging from $2.6 million for Tumwater to $232.3 million for Seattle.

Additionally, the state will receive $442.8 million that must be distributed to non-entitlement units of local government (those with populations below 50,000). Treasury has not yet provided guidance on how this money must be distributed, so it’s not clear how much each jurisdiction will receive. (Note that the 2021 supplemental budget passed by the Legislature appropriates $483.4 million for this purpose.)

A table showing the amount that each jurisdiction will receive from the fiscal recovery fund (along with the amount each received from the CRF) is here. I’ll review the interim final rule in another post.