Hill County Commission tables discussion of ARPA funds for health department

In its weekly business meeting Thursday the Hill County Commission tabled discussion of providing the Hill County Health Department with American Rescue Plan Act funds at the request of Hill County Public Health Director Kim Berg.

The commission voted to table the discussion because they wanted a chance to get more information from Berg about the wages of her contact tracers that the funds would pay for but hadn’t heard back.

Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean said she suspects Berg didn’t have time as she was working on a COVID-19 test distribution event this week and was likely d...