The City of Williamsport passed a resolution authorizing an addendum to the master services agreement with UHY Advisors, the company helping the city to meet compliance with its expenditure of $25.4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Council approved the resolution that extends the term through Dec. 31 of this year, according to Jamie Livermore, city finance director.

“We have very little left in the ARPA funds,” Livermore said.

“We just have the (Williamsport) Redevelopment Authority (RDA) and Land Bank,” she said. “We utilize UHY to review their (RDA/Land Bank)

reimbursement requirements, make sure they are compliant and we use their approval for compliance,” she said. “We don’t use them often, usually about once a month,” she said.

Councilwoman Liz Miele, chair of the city finance committee, asked – at the risk of opening up a whole can of worms – are the RDA and Land Bank on track to spend that funding?”

“We did have a meeting with the RDA and Land Bank and it did seem like they were on track,” Livermore said.

When August “Skip” Memmi, authority executive director, was at a recent council meeting he said they purchased three homes, “which means that they would be using the funds to do renovations,” Livermore added.

“As far as I know they are on track,” she said.

Livermore provided the authority and Land Bank with a breakdown of what is left about a month ago and they were all aware of what they have left, she said.

Miele asked how much it was.

“I think it’s a little, combined, I think it is a little over $1 million – maybe $1.3 million,” Livermore said.