Ald. David Moore (17) speaks during a budget committee hearing on the progress of spending ARPA funds on Sept. 5, 2024. [Livestream]

The city is on track to obligate all of its American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding by the end of the year and meet a federal deadline, but alderpeople want city officials to provide more specific data on how the money is being spent, accountability mechanisms for the organizations that got money and performance metrics for the programs funded. 

Discussion about more transparency and about whether any uncommitted ARPA funds could be used to help plug a projected $982 million budget gap for 2025 came during a meeting of the Committee on Budget and Government Operations Thursday.