METHUEN — The state Executive Office for Administration and Finance is taking back $650,000 from the city that was given out using CARES Act funding for restaurants and COVID-19 hazard pay for some employees.
After receiving $4 million in federal COVID-19 aid funds, Mayor Neil Perry was given a deadline of Dec. 31, 2020, to allocate it. Now of the expenditures he made, the city must return $150,000 that went to restaurants and $500,000 in COVID-19 hazard pay issued to essential employees shortly before the holidays last year.
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