The Guthrie Center City Council has narrowed down the projects that the use of the federal American Rescue Plan Act funds would go towards. 

Mayor Mike Herbert explains some of targeted projects include infrastructure such as overlaying some streets in town, as well as improving sewer lines and some of the money will go to the Utility Board for them to use towards clearing wells in town. Herbert gives the reason why they choose those projects. 

“With those funds, they have some pretty strict guidelines. And so the ones we picked were ones that were definitely acceptable to the (federal) government. And so  those are the ones we picked and that we could most definitely use.”

Herbert says the City of Guthrie Center received close to $150,000 which they will split with the Utility Board.